(September 12, 2002) This investigative report will take the viewer inside the realm, and inside the mind, of one of the most effective and brutal tyrants of the past 50 years.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is the first head of state to stand trial for war crimes and genocide. The process that brought Milosevic to the UN-run International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague was fraught with turmoil.

During Slobodan Milosevic's years in power, wars raged in Yugoslavia that eventually led to its disintegration. This photo essay depicts Milosevic's battle with Yugoslavia's independent news media.

NEW YORK TIMES reporter Daniel Simpson writes from Belgrade on the trial's effects on the Serbs in this week's essay.