Does it really matter if these people are referred to as being fascist, murderous dictators or the saviour of the land?

If you are forced from your home (and worse) by the their crimes (or policy) - which is designed to enable them to grab, maintain or increase their personal power - does the exact term matter? I can think of many general terms of abuse that will suffice.

Remember that the line you are defending, or explaining, is that Milosevic was on a par with Hitler when it came to conquering his own people from within. In fact he only ever sought to deliver what his own people wanted - what many of them still do want, incidentally. The Socialist Party of Serbia, of which he is still the nominal leader, still polls strongly, to the great annoyance of Washington and its allies.

When you are in power - some of your people always want to murder and steal from some others of your people. The former are usually thought of as criminals......