Milosevic's career in pictures

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, is preparing to face justice after being extradited to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.

Slobodan Milosevic's position as strongman of the Balkans was once seen as impregnable

He became a figurehead for the Serb nationalist movement in the late 1980s

Milosevic positioned himself as a champion of Serb rights, winning him widespread popular support in his country

He was once seen as a man the West could do business with

But Nato responded in force to Milosevic's deployment of troops to quell an ethnic Albanian uprising in Kosovo

A year later, public opposition and anger reached a peak after Milosevic tried and failed to rig elections

Days of protests culminated in the storming of the Serb parliament in October last year, and Mr Milosevic was ousted

Milosevic was arrested and detained in a bloody raid on his Belgrade residence in April

Stripped of his power, he now goes on trial accused of war crimes