"Those who expelled my people still hold the highest posts in Croatia, from the president of the republic to the president of the parliament," Martic said at a regular status conference, adding that the end of the year was nearing and the deadline for the issuing of new indictments was expiring.
Despite previous announcements, the status conference did not set the date for the start of Martic's trial, but addressed preparations for the trial, with the defence counsel complaining about lack of funding.
Martic said that Croatian Serbs had been exposed to "the gravest ethnic cleansing campaign of the 20th century".
He criticised Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte for cooperating with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and other Croatian officials, who he said had ordered ethnic cleansing.
Despite the fact that the year is nearing the end, nobody is prosecuting the perpetrators of the crimes committed on the Miljevci Plateau, at Maslenica and in Operation "Flash", when hundreds of civilians were killed, Martic said.
He also accused the tribunal's registry of discriminating against him by not granting his defence counsel the requested funding.
Defence attorney Predrag Milovancevic repeated his request for the tribunal to transfer the case to the first category of complexity, claiming that his client is a former "president", which the tribunal has been refusing.
Martic is charged with 19 counts of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war committed against Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Croatia's occupied areas in 1991-95 and in western Bosnia in 1994, as well as with the shelling of Zagreb in May 1995.
He surrendered to the tribunal on 15 May 2002 and pleaded not guilty to all counts of the indictment at his first appearance before the tribunal.