Bringing down a dictator the fall of "Slobo"

Discusses the rise and fall of the Serbian president Slobodan Milošević, and discusses the resistance movement Otpor. In 2000, Slobodan Milošević fought to hold power in Yugoslavia. His opponents were led by a student movement called Otpor! (Serbian for "resistance"), who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight, leading to Milošević's fall from power, arrest, and extradition to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity.

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"Discusses the rise and fall of the Serbian president Slobodan Milošević, and discusses the resistance movement Otpor. In 2000, Slobodan Milošević fought to hold power in Yugoslavia. His opponents were led by a student movement called Otpor! (Serbian for "resistance"), who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight, leading to Milošević's fall from power, arrest, and extradition to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity."@en
"Documents the defeat in October 2000 of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, dubbed The Butcher of the Balkans, through a non-violent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Includes archival footage and the work of the national resistance movement "Otpor""@en
"In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But he underestimated his opponents, led by a student movement called Otpor! (Serbian for "resistance"), who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight."
"Bringing Down A Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a few months later, a student movement named Otpor! ("Resistance" in Serbian) launched a surprising offensive. Audaciously demanding the removal of Milosevic, they recruited where discontent was strongest, in the Serbian heartland. Their weapons were rock concerts and ridicule, the internet and email, spray-painted slogans and a willingness to be arrested. Otpor students became the shock troops in an army of human rights, pro-democracy, anti-war, womens groups, and opposition political parties. Their slogan: "Hes Finished!" Trained in nonviolent action and partially financed by the US and western Europe, they forged a unified political opposition, fought to stop vote fraud, and systematically undermined police and army loyalty. When Milosevic refused to accept defeat at the polls, the opposition called a general strike. As normal life ground to a halt, Serbs by the hundreds of thousands poured into the capital on October 5 to seize the Federal Parliament in a dramatic triumph for democracy. --Kanopy."@en
"In 2000, Slobodan Milošević fought to hold power in Yugoslavia. His opponents were led by a student movement called Otpor! (Serbian for "resistance"), who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight, leading to Milošević's fall from power, arrest, and extradition to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity."@en
"In 2000, Slobodan Milošević fought to hold power in Yugoslavia. His opponents were led by a student movement called Otpor! (Serbian for "resistance"), who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight, leading to Milošević's fall from power, arrest, and extradition to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity."