Hard-Line Politician Heads to U.N. Tribunal
Hard-liner Vojislav Seselj, who came in second in Serbia’s December presidential poll, left for the Netherlands today to hand himself over to a United Nations tribunal that on Feb. 14 indicted him on war crimes charges.
Seselj is accused of “ethnic cleansing” and other atrocities in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1991 to 1993.
He was an ally of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who has been on trial in The Hague for a year, charged with crimes against humanity and genocide. Serbia is the larger republic in Serbia and Montenegro, formerly Yugoslavia.
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