Seselj 
Vojislav Seselj
News 175
THE HAGUE | 19.02.2008.
LEGAL ‘COVER’ FOR THE VOLUNTEERS
According to the prosecution military expert, Seselj’s Radicals and other parties started recruiting and sending volunteers to Croatia as early as in the spring of 1991. From August to December 1991, the Serbian government, the JNA General Staff and the SFRY Presidency passed decrees, instructions and orders to provide legal ‘cover’ for the actual state of affairs
THE HAGUE | 14.02.2008.
REGULATING THE IRREGULARS
Military expert testifying for the prosecution at the trial of Vojislav Seselj described the origins and development of the volunteer units drafted by the accused in 1991 from the independent irregulars to the moment they became a part of the JNA
THE HAGUE | 13.02.2008.
SESELJ’S ‘POINTLESS’ DEFENSE
Seselj is trying to prove that the Serbian Radical Party volunteers were under the command of the JNA or the VRS – and not him – on the battlefields in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina, in an effort to deny he had command responsibility. This despite the fact that he is not charged with it at all
THE HAGUE | 12.02.2008.
‘SERBS IN CROATIA DIDN’T KNOW’ SESELJ BEFORE THE WAR
In the beginning of his cross-examination, Vojislav Seselj got the protected witness VS004 to confirm that the reason why Serbs in Croatia were afraid in 1990 was not the inflammatory rhetoric he practiced in Belgrade, but the actions of the new Croatian government
THE HAGUE | 07.02.2008.
SESELJ WANTS LIFE SENTENCE
When the presiding judge lectured him on the proper way to conduct his defense, Seselj said he wasn’t concerned about the judges not believing his claims. His arguments were not addressed to them, he explained, but to the public. Seselj urged the judges not to be concerned, because it was his goal to be sentenced to life
THE HAGUE | 06.02.2008.
RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE WRONG WITNESS
After a rather long lecture on history and linguistics, Seselj finally came to the gist of the case as the cross-examination of French expert Yves Tomich drew to a close. It turned out, however, that the question he asked was addressed to the wrong witness. The military expert whose evidence is planned for next week will be able to provide the answer
THE HAGUE | 05.02.2008.
DOCTOR OF LEGAL SCIENCE VS. MASTER OF ARTS
At the beginning of his cross-examination of OTP expert witness Yves Tomich, Vojislav Seselj claims a French scholar with an MA degree in Slavic studies is not qualified to testify on the ideology of a Serbian ‘full professor with a doctorate in legal science’
THE HAGUE | 30.01.2008.
SERBS WOULD BE A MINORITY IN SESELJ’S ‘GREATER SERBIA’
According to Yves Tomic, the author of the expert report Ideology of Greater Serbia in the 19th and 20th Century, Serbs would not have majority in Seselj’s Greater Serbia if there were no ‘transfer of population’
THE HAGUE | 29.01.2008.
SESELJ WAS ‘INTELLECTUAL DESCENDANT’ OF THE CHETNIK MOVEMENT
In his expert report, Greater Serbia Ideology, Yves Tomic concludes that Vojislav Seselj is ‘intellectual descendant’ of the Chetnik movement. The Chetnik or Ravna Gora movement originated in World War II, and Seselj adopted its goal: the creation of a Greater Serbia, as ethnically homogenous as possible. Seselj’s followers implemented this goal by forcible transfer and expulsion of the population
THE HAGUE | 24.01.2008.
HARSHER TONE AT SESELJ TRIAL
In the first two days of the cross-examination, Seselj refrained from confronting with the prosecution witness who in turn mostly agreed with Seselj’s allegations. Today Seselj changed his tone, accusing Goran Stoparic of having ‘planned his whole testimony with Natasa Kandic’
