in uniform. reporter: after a distinguished 35-year career, powell retired from the army in 1993. ten years later, the united states would become involved in another gulf war and powell again played a key role. my colleagues, every statement i make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. these are not assertions. what we re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. reporter: then secretary of state powell made a case in front of the u.n. security council arguing that iraq posed a grave threat to the world because they said they had weapons of mass destruction. the following month, the u.s. invasion began. the war lasted more than eight years, no weapons of mass destruction ever turned up. i regret it now because the information was wrong. reporter: after four years as president george w. bush s secretary of state, powell returned to private life. he spent his civilian years empowering youth, promise alliance and the colin powell school
the late 19905 conflict between serb forces and albanian insurgents for the future of the former yugoslav province of kosovo left thousands dead. serbian forces attempted to rid the region of its ethnic albanian population. the kosovo liberation army retaliated. many civilians died most of them men. around 5,800 people disappeared. 25 years later, and almost 1,600 people are still missing, leaving many mothers, wives, and sisters to lament birthdays uncelebrated, weddings unplanned, and grandchildren unborn. among them, kujtime, an ethnic albanian who s lived all her life in the city that s become kosovo s lasting symbol of ethnic partition. it was during that time that tragedy struck. dragica, an ethnic serb, lived in kosovo until the war forced her to flee to serbia. her 17 year old son, ivan, went missing on the ill fated journey tojoin her. during spring 1999, the war in kosovo entered its most intense phase. nato intervened in the war, targeting serbian forces they a
on the planet, genocide. here in belgrade, his wife protests his innocence. who does she think was responsible for the thousands of forced deportations and the mass murders, and does she expect her husband one day to come home? mira markovic, welcome to the programme. when you saw your husband recently, in the hague, and you celebrated his birthday, did you tell him that everything was going to be ok in the end? what did you tell him? has he accepted his fate? whatever the international criminal court decides it to be, will he accept it? but he is going to be tried by the tribunal, isn t he? whatever public opinion has to say about it. but you would accept that the court has been set up with the authority of the un security council, and your husband accepted that under the dayton agreement, which he signed in 1995. why does he now say that the court is illegal? mrs markovic, why is that a lie? what he actually signed up to, which is in the dayton agreement, is that the partie
hardtalk slobdan milosevic is in the hague, facing the most serious charge on the planet genocide. here in belgrade, his wife protests his innocence. who does she think was responsible for the thousands of forced deportations and the mass murders, and does she expect her husband one day to come home? mira markovic, welcome to the programme. when you saw your husband recently, in the hague, and you celebrated his birthday, did you tell him that everything was going to be ok in the end? what did you tell him? has he accepted his fate? whatever the international criminal court decides it to be, will he accept it? but he is going to be tried by the tribunal, isn t he? whatever public opinion has to say about it. but you would accept that the court has been set up with the authority of the un security council, and your husband accepted that under the dayton agreement, which he signed in 1995. why does he now say that the court is illegal? mrs markovic, why is that a lie? what he
facing the most serious charge on the planet genocide. here in belgrade, his wife protests his innocence. who does she think was responsible for the thousands of forced deportations and the mass murders, and does she expect her husband one day to come home? mira markovic, welcome to the programme. when you saw your husband recently, in the hague, and you celebrated his birthday, did you tell him that everything was going to be ok in the end? what did you tell him? has he accepted his fate? whatever the international criminal court decides it to be, will he accept it? but he is going to be tried by the tribunal, isn t he? whatever public opinion has to say about it. but you would accept that the court has been set up with the authority of the un security council, and your husband accepted that under the dayton agreement, which he signed in 1995. why does he now say that the court is illegal? mrs markovic, why is that a lie? what he actually signed up to, which is in the dayt