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HOW SESELJ’S VERDICT GOT HIISTORY TERRIBLY
WRONG

Jelena Subotic

April 1, 2016, Balkan Transitional Justice

Vojislav Seselj is a free man. In fact, he has been a free man for quite some time. Since his controversial release from detention at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY in 2014 to seek medical treatment in

Serbia, Seselj just picked up where he stopped 13 years ago, when he was first arrested and charged with multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Over
the past two years he fully rejoined the Serbian political maelstrom, holding rallies, issuing regular statements on various political matters, and embracing with renewed zeal his old racist, nationalist, and warmongering rhetoric of the 1990s. But as of yesterday, he is more than free. He is fully acquitted of any wrongdoing during the Yugoslav wars. On all nine counts of crimes against humanity that included murder, persecution and expulsions of non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, the ICTY trial chamber concluded that he was a mere politician, and not
a war criminal. A politician with somewhat...   More >>>

 

‘ERROR OF LAW' - TOP
INTERNATIONAL LAWYER
DISAGREES WITH SESELJ
RULING

March 31, 2016, RFE

Mark Ellis, the executive director of the International Bar Association, has been closely following the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for years. He said he thinks the
judges got it  wrong on
March 31 when they
acquitted Serbian Radical party leader Vojislav Seselj on all charges of war
crimes and...   More >>>

 

VOJISLAV ŠEŠELJ -
TIME CAPSULE

By David B. Kanin

December 4, 2014,
Transconflict

No one should be
surprised that the people in charge of the world’s least effective war crimes tribunal let their most unrepentant warmonger go home to a
hero’s welcome (at least
from his reduced number
of followers). From the
beginning, these high and mighty judges, prosecutors, and bureaucrats have failed to realize that any train —
much less one as slow
moving as theirs is — does not get very far...   More >>>

 

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...
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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...
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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...   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...   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...   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...   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...   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...
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YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND HELSINKI COMMITTEE COORDINATED FLYER HANDOUT ON BELGRADE STREETS

In front of the Philosophy Faculty,
at the "Plato"

17th January 2008.

Starting in 1991 and continuing into 1999, 2002
and 2003...   More >>>

 

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...   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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THE ROOTS OF
ANTI-MODERN POLITICAL
CULTURE IN SERBIA

Author: Olga Popovic Obradovic

At the very start of the nineteen - nineties an institutional reform was carried out in Serbia (as in other so-called transitional countries), under the leadership of Slobodan...
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