trail of seselj icty

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Seselj was born in 1954, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then part of

Socialst Federative Repblic of !goslavia"

#fter gradating in law as the best stdent in class and ta$ing a %h& degree and beco'ing

the (ongest %h& in !goslavia ever" )n the 19*+s he beca'e one of the (ongest teaching

assistants at the Sarajevo aw Faclt( before being e-pelled fro' the niversit( in 19*4 fornationalistic state'ents" # Sarajevo cort jailed hi' for eight (ears, bt the ter' was ct to

two"

#fter release fro' prison Seselj 'oved to Belgrade, where he i''ersed hi'self in the

Serbian political circles which were opposing the !goslav .o''nist regi'e"

He started to pblicl( gravitate towards the ideas of the .hetni$s, the Second /orld /ar

followers of a Serb nationalist ar'( officer called &raza 0ihailovic" )n 199+, as the co''nist

onepart( s(ste' was disintegrated in !goslavia, he fonded his own Serbian .hetni$0ove'ent" 2hat (ear he was arrested and i'prisoned for attac$ing the Hose of Flowers, the

'e'orial to !goslavia3s longti'e .o''nist leader, osip Broz 2ito" /hile in prison, he

stood as a presidential candidate in the first 'ltipart( elections in the for'er !goslavia and

won arond 9+,+++ votes"

His strong nationalist ideas led hi' to fond a new right politcal 'ove'ent, the Serbian

Radical %art(, in 1991" )n the sa'e (ear he beca'e a 'e'ber of Serbia3s ational #sse'bl("

!goslavia then began to fall apart, as ar'ed conflicts spread fro' Slovenia to .roatia and

Bosnia and Herzegovina" Seselj seized the 'o'ent and for'ed a volntar( para'ilitar( nit,

nic$na'ed the 6Seseljevci6, which were placed nder the co''and of the reglar Serbs ar'(

in accordance with the law on national defense"

Seselj beca'e $nown as a great oratpr, which he sed to give a 'oral boost to the Serbs

across the region"

Seselj has established the 'odern idea of 67reat Serbia6 based on the principle"

Seselj8s 7reat Serbia inclded all of presentda( Serbia and other historicall( Serb lands li$e

0acedonia, 0ontenegro, Bosnia and 0ontenegro, as well as 'ost of .roatia"

2he idea of niting Serbs in one state gided hi' and other Serbs who were fighting for the

liberation of Serbian people"

&ring 199+s Seselj was in open co'flict with Serbia3s leader, Slobodan 0ilosevic and his

regi'e" &ring 0ilosevic Socialist gover'ent he was arested seven ti'es and spent shorter

ti'e in prision"


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)n the 199* Seselj8s part( for'ed a govern'ent of national nit( in order to defend the

contr( 'ore easil( fro' the #2 agression with other parties inclding the 0ilosevic3s

part(" Seselj beca'e a vicepresident of the Serbian govern'ent"

n the ctober 5, :+++, there was a cop aided b( the ;nited States and after new electionsSeselj and his part( went into opposition with onl( few seats in parlia'ent"

2hree (ears later the )nternational .ri'inal 2ribnal for for'er !goslavia, ).2!, filed charges

against Seselj, accsing hi' of persection on political, racial and religios gronds,

deportations and other inh'ane acts as well as violation of the csto's of war dring

conflicts in the for'er !goslavia fro' 1991 ntil 199 ?nll' cri'en nlla poena sine lege@ Seselj coldn3t be charged for hate speech

co''itted between 199: and 1995, even if it was the trth and it is not"

He volntaril( srrendered that (ear, bt his trial did not begin for for (ears ntil :++A after

(ears of dela(s and obstrctions b( the prosector who didn3t have an( evidence against

Seselj so he was not able to write an indict'ent for for (ears" #'ong the others, cort didn3t

want to allow hi' to defend hi'self and becase of that he had started a hnger stri$e which

lasted :* da(s and scceeded after for the righ to defend hi'self alone" Seselj said abot the

law(er who was i'posed b( the ).2!

!o falsel( presented this 'an with a bird3s nest on top of his head [alluding to the lawyers

wig that he was wearing in a court] as '( defence law(er" He will never be '( defence

law(er" !o broght actors here to act as '( defence law(ers bt the( will never be '(defence law(ers" 2he( are (or spies,> he told the cort"

He has refsed to ac$nowledge that he participated in an( cri'e that the ).2! charged hi'

with, bt he has not bac$trac$ed on his political ideas"


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6) a' being tried for atrocios war cri'es that ) allegedl( co''itted throgh hate speech as )

preached '( nationalist ideolog( of which ) a' prod,> Seselj said in one appearance before

the 2ribnal"

Seselj in his last pblic appearance before he srrendered said6&o not give an( Serbs to ).2! after 'e, don3t give the' Radovan Caradzic, and don8t give

the' Rat$o 0ladic" 2he( have no evidence that ) participated, incited, concealed or rged war

cri'es,6""" 6/ith their stpid charges against 'e the( have co'e p against the greatest living

legal Serb 'ind" ) shall blast the' to pieces,6 he added"

#part fro' the war cri'e proceedings, Seselj has been sentenced for conte'pt of cort

after ,as referred to in the jdg'ent, >he disclosed the identit( of a protected witness in his

boo$"> #lthogh there is no legal s(ste' in the world where accsed can be charged for

conte'pt of cort" 2o 'a$e things even fnnier, in the sa'e cort #lbanian terrorist Ra'sh

Haradinaj, who $illed over thirt( witnesses who shold have to testif( in Haradinaj3s case, is

released de lac$ of evidence"

)n the sa'e 'onth, after he retrned to the trial, Seselj de'anded : 'illion ero in da'ages,

accsing the 2ribnal of violating his h'an rights dring his detention"

ow, after 11 (ears of detention the prosection has called for :* (ears i'prison'ent for

Seselj, stating that it has been proven that he co''itted war cri'es and that he showed no

re'orse" Seselj

For 11 years trail is going on and he is not accused that he killed someone or gived order for

killing, but that when he said muslim are trying to take our teritory we must do do whatever is

needed to keep it, then prosecutor said someone might think that means kill all the muslims for

teritory and seselj should know that someone could make crime so he shouldn`t say anything

about conflict. Another thing is while alaged crimes happened he was in oposition not in

government, he was many times aressted by ilosevic, but they say he was in some secret

conspiracy project with serbian government.

!n "#. "$.%"1% trail ended with prosecutor finishing his part of proces, seselj asked from court

money for his defence in trail but hague said we cant give you money that you ask, you should

get money by yourself. &o he said ' am not gonna show my defence anyway you didn`t proved

that ' am guilty so ' don`t even need defence. ' tell you this so you know that 11 years is just

time that court needed to presend evidence against him and there was not defence so if it was

trail would go for more the 1# years.

(uring his time in hague he had trail for comptent of court few times, thing is woman named

)atasa *andic who was cooperating with prosecution realised names of protected witnises in


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her book, so seselj took those same names and puted them on web site wit promision of those

witnises that wanted public to know there names. &o he didn`t give out names of protected

witnises bu *andic thid, before he put there names on web+site he contaced them and asked

can ' do that and they said yes, they confirmed in court that sesel is not guilty and they wanted

to go public, nut court said we are gonna give you snetence anyway. e also said if ' am gulty

the you should put in prision )atasa *andic but they said its not up to you to thik about that, inthe end she was never charged for giving those names. After that sentece they told seselj you

should take of those books with names of protective witnises from your site, but he said no ' am

already punished for that and that-s it, after that they made another case aginst him because he

would take down books with names from his site, so they done another trail against him for

contempt of court and sentenced him again for the same thing that he was already punished its

like convicting you two times for one crime. 'n the end he had another proces for contempt of

court and now he has years and / mounts of punisment for contempt of court just to make no

mistake those punismants started this way firs july %"1" second $1 october %"11 third

punishment was made on %0 jun %"1% third.

After "#. "$.%"1% proces ended with closing argument of sesel and prosecutor, so by rules of

hague they have time limit of % mounts so on march of %"1% they had deadline to make

sentence, and they broke it, firs they said his trail is difenert we need more time, after that one

of the jurdges. &o he waited until "1 of july %"1$, when letter of the jurges Frederich arhof

from (enmark was made public by media, in that letter he said that his opinion is that all acused

should go to prision int doesn`t mater if there is evidence or not. After that seselj said to court

that harhof should be disualified from decsion beacause he must be objectiv and he is not.

2ourt firt made decision to disualifie him then said no we gonn put disualification on hold, and

again they changed they mind and finaly but harhof away.

!n $1.1". %"1$ more the year after trail ended they asinged new judge from senegal madiaje

nijang and he should take part in decision althou he was never in court, never saw evidnece in

court room and so on3 so now new jurge should look at all evidence that was made between

%""4 and %"1%, they didn-t set date for sentence so when nijang feels he is ready he will tell

president of court ' made a decision.

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