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COURT TOLD WITNESS LEFT VILLAGE AFTER SESELJ SPEECH

Hague tribunal hears how Croatian in Serb village of Hrtkovci feared becoming a target.

By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 635, 19-Feb-10)

A witness told judges at The Hague tribunal this week that he decided to leave his village after allegedly being named in a speech by Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj. The anonymous witness said that he had not himself attended the speech, given on May 6, 1992 in the Serbian village of...
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PEOPLE'S RADICAL PARTY

The Origins of the Ideology of Social, National and Political Unity of the Serb People

Latinka Perovic

The People's Radical Party is among the landmarks of Serbia's modern history. It emanates social and national collectivism of the Serb people. The former relies on patriarchal institutions that have survived the Ottoman rule - commune and municipality; the latter leans of the perception of the Serb people as a unique organism. Selfperceived and self-...
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SESELJ TRIAL HEARS OF MOSTAR SHOOTINGS

Bosniak survivor describes ordeal at the hands of Serb forces in the summer of 1992.

By Simon Jennings in The Hague

A Bosniak imprisoned after surviving a massacre near the town of Mostar in June 1992 told judges this week how he was allowed water only once in four days and ate one meal in six days. Redzep Karisik was giving evidence in the trial of Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj. Still head of the Serb Radical Party, SRS, despite being detained in The Hague, Seselj...   More >>>

SERB VOLUNTEERS ACCUSED OF
FURTHER CRIMES

Witness tells judges about Serb paramilitary attack on Bosnian village
in 1992.

By Denis Dzidic in The Hague

A protected witness in the trial of Vojislav Seselj testified this week that Serb volunteers attacked his village, murdering around 20 residents before imprisoning the rest. Testifying in the Hague tribunal trial of Serb Radical Party, SRS, leader Seselj, the witness said a group of volunteers led by local man Vasilije Vidovic attacked the...   More >>>

SESELJ "CONTROLLED" SRS VOLUNTEERS

IWPR'S Tribunal update No. 545

April 4, 2008

Witness also says he recalls hearing defendant order them to fight in Srebrenica.

By Denis Dzidic in Sarajevo

A former volunteer with the Serbian Radical Party, SRS, said its leader Vojislav Seselj was in charge of party volunteers in the area of Croatia where he is alleged to have been responsible for war crimes. The indictment against Seselj alleges that in 1991, volunteers from his party...   More >>>

NEIGHBOURS, KOSOVO AND MINORITIES

In view of recent recognition of Kosovo by several neighboring countries, notably Hungary and Croatia, the internal scene of Serbia is anew affected by growing tensions. Those tensions are fanned mostly in inter-ethnic milieus by political factors who consider ethnic minorities a factor which threatens "the all-Serb unity" in the state and national policy. Prominent official of the Serb Radical Party in Vojvodina, and the Serb Parliament MP, Milorad Mircic, stated on the 17 th of March that "there is...    More >>>

COURT TOLD NOT ALL VOLUNTEERS AFFILIATED TO SRS

Expert witness says that other political parties were part of "Chetnik" tradition at the time.

By Simon Jennings in The Hague

The trial of an ultranationalist Serbian politician accused of inciting Serbs to fight Bosniaks and Croats in the early 1990s has heard that not all those who took up arms belonged to his party. Vojislav Seselj, president of the Serbian Radical Party, SRS, is charged by prosecutors in The Hague with encouraging Serb volunteer...   More >>>

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: The Prosecutor v. Vojislav Seselj

THE IDEOLOGY OF A GREATER SERBIA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

22 January 2008

Expert Report, Yves Tomic

The Serbian medieval state originated in the region of Rascia (Raška). As it developed, it spread towards the south (Kosovo, Macedonia), until it reached its apex during the reign of Tsar Dušan (1308-1355), who enlarged Serbia by adding to it the regions of Macedonia, Albania...
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DISORIENTED SERBIA

Article "TIME IS UP FOR THE THIRD WAY"

penned by journalist Zoran Cirjakovic

1/25/08 HCHRS

Local passionate Europhiles and romantic Russophiles are totally bound by the fact that both are totally ignorant of the world lying outside their imagined "mothers". Serbia perhaps has a plan A and plan B, the old Brussels and the new Moscow option. But the state lacks the plan C, the one- if it turns out that both "mothers" are in fact cruel or careless step-mothers- which would...   More >>>

PROGRAMME DECLARATION OF THE SERB RADICAL PARTY from 1991

The following documents show that the organized program of genocide in Kosovo has been planned and well known for years, and was neither a surprise nor caused by NATO efforts to stop it.

Pursuant to the Programme and the Statute, adopted at the founding convention in Kragujevac on 23 February 1991, and in line with the traditions of the Serb Radicals and our great ideological founding father Nikola Pasic as well...
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