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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 committed crimes in the Croatian town of Vukovar and in Western Slavonija, a part of Croatia seized by Serbs and retaken by Croats in a 1995 offensive. He is also accused of inciting Serbs to drive Bosniaks and Croats out of parts of Bosnia and Croatia. Prosecutors say Seselj "espoused and encouraged the creation of a homogenous 'Greater Serbia'" through his...

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 soldiers to commit crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia between 1991 and 1993. Seselj faces charges that he "espoused and encouraged the creation of a homogenous 'Greater Serbia'...by violence, and thereby participated in war propaganda and incitement of hatred towards non-Serb...

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, Epirus, and Thessaly. As a result of the advance of the Ottomans from the south of the Balkan Peninsula towards the north in the second half of the fourteenth century, the Serbian state ceased to exist and the Serbian population of the more southerly regions (Macedonia, Kosovo, Metohija) moved towards the north along the Morava-Vardar (Skopje-Belgrade) axis and towards...

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 become both middle- and long-term certainty (...) It would not be the quest for a new utopia, similar to expensive and mindless Kardelj-style self-management illusion, but rather a responsible effort to find, by dint of analysis of a wealth of transition experiences from many parts of the world, the best solutions for ensuring economic prosperity and stability...

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 as the best freedom-loving and patriotic aspirations of the people it belongs to, the Serb Radical Party, acting as an expressly democratic political organization under the conditions of the pluralistic system and opting exclusively for peaceful methods of the political struggle, announces to the entire Serbhood and the world at large that our fundamental political goals are as...