The prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has called for a 28 year long jail sentence to be imposed on Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj at The Hague, as he faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Seselj is accused of recruiting and financing Serbian paramilitary units who went on to murder and ethnically cleanse large parts of Bosnia and Croatia. He faces nine counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity,
Prosecutor Mathias Marcussen said Seselj was responsible,
Seselj is accused of recruiting and financing Serbian paramilitary units who went on to murder and ethnically cleanse large parts of Bosnia and Croatia. He faces nine counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity,
Prosecutor Mathias Marcussen said Seselj was responsible,
“for the suffering of tens of thousands of victims who were expelled from their homes, murdered, detained, tortured, raped and whose villages, towns and religious sites were wantonly destroyed as a result of his words and his acts.”
"His crime is grave by scale and heinous by nature."