Prosecution: We proved Šešelj is guilty
Hague prosecutors say evidence proves that Vojislav Šešelj was responsible for atrocities committed by Serb militias in Croatia and Bosnia in the early 1990s.
Tuesday, 06.03.2012.
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Hague prosecutors say evidence proves that Vojislav Seselj was responsible for atrocities committed by Serb militias in Croatia and Bosnia in the early 1990s. Twenty years ago, Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj vowed that rivers of blood would flow if Bosnia declared independence, prosecutor Mathias Marcussen said on Monday. Prosecution: We proved Seselj is guilty The accused's threat of rivers of blood became a brutal reality after Bosnia-Hercegovina declared independence two decades ago, the prosecutor said. His troops were referred to as Seselj's men, committed numerous crimes and were the most brutal of the Serbian paramilitary groups, Marcussen added. According to Marcussen, Seselj is responsible for more than 900 killings of Croats and Muslims, the expulsion of tens of thousands of people, torture, abuse, robbery and destruction of villages and sacred sites. The evidence confirmed that Seselj was a criminal participant in the joint venture whose goal was the creation of a large Serbian state, which would include Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and much of Bosnia and Croatia, with boundaries in Karlovac, Karlobag, Ogulin and Virovitica, the prosecutor said. Closing arguments by the prosecution and defense at the trial of Seselj began Monday and will last until March 15. Prosecutors called 72 witnesses to prove their accusation that Seselj was part of a criminal plot led by late Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to create a new Serb superstate out of parts of the former Yugoslavia. Seselj is on trial for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 1991 and 1994 against the non-Serb population from large parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Vojvodina, northern Serbia. The Hague issued an indictment against the leader of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) in January 2003, and he voluntarily surrendered in February of that year. His trial began in November 2007. In the meantime, in July 2009, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. In February 2010, the Hague charged Seselj with contempt of court for the second time, because he made public the identities of several protected witnesses from the main trial phase. In March last year, Seselj requested the Hague to pay him EUR 10 million damage and a release judgment because, he said, the prosecutor had failed in proving any of the allegations against him and had nothing to support their accusations against him. On May 4, the Trial Chamber rejected by a majority vote Seselj's request to be released from custody, and on May 24 last year, the SRS leader was once again charged with contempt of court. Tanjug
Prosecution: We proved Šešelj is guilty
The accused's threat of rivers of blood became a brutal reality after Bosnia-Hercegovina declared independence two decades ago, the prosecutor said.His troops were referred to as Šešelj's men, committed numerous crimes and were the most brutal of the Serbian paramilitary groups, Marcussen added.
According to Marcussen, Šešelj is responsible for more than 900 killings of Croats and Muslims, the expulsion of tens of thousands of people, torture, abuse, robbery and destruction of villages and sacred sites.
The evidence confirmed that Šešelj was a criminal participant in the joint venture whose goal was the creation of a large Serbian state, which would include Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and much of Bosnia and Croatia, with boundaries in Karlovac, Karlobag, Ogulin and Virovitica, the prosecutor said.
Closing arguments by the prosecution and defense at the trial of Šešelj began Monday and will last until March 15.
Prosecutors called 72 witnesses to prove their accusation that Šešelj was part of a criminal plot led by late Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević to create a new Serb superstate out of parts of the former Yugoslavia.
Šešelj is on trial for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 1991 and 1994 against the non-Serb population from large parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Vojvodina, northern Serbia.
The Hague issued an indictment against the leader of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) in January 2003, and he voluntarily surrendered in February of that year. His trial began in November 2007.
In the meantime, in July 2009, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
In February 2010, the Hague charged Šešelj with contempt of court for the second time, because he made public the identities of several protected witnesses from the main trial phase.
In March last year, Šešelj requested the Hague to pay him EUR 10 million damage and a release judgment because, he said, the prosecutor had failed in proving any of the allegations against him and had nothing to support their accusations against him.
On May 4, the Trial Chamber rejected by a majority vote Šešelj's request to be released from custody, and on May 24 last year, the SRS leader was once again charged with contempt of court.
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