BELGRADE, Feb 20 (Hina) - Not one Croat was expelled from Vojvodina, Serb radical leader Vojislav Seselj was quoted by the latest issue of the weekly "Blic News" as saying.
BELGRADE, Feb 20 (Hina) - Not one Croat was expelled from Vojvodina,
Serb radical leader Vojislav Seselj was quoted by the latest issue
of the weekly "Blic News" as saying. #L#
Seselj said his stand was "to apply the principle under which
Serbian authorities should treat the Croatian ethnic minority in
the same manner that Croatian authorities treat the Serb
minority".
"I wish that all Croats had left. Why should Croats be here? I wish
they had gone, but I did not expel any, neither was any expelled,"
Seselj asserted.
He reiterated that at a notorious rally on 5 May 1992 in the
Vojvodina town of Hrtkovci he had "read out a list of Croats who,
according to reliable information, were in the Ustasha unit of the
national guard".
Seselj reiterated his claims that his radicals had not been in the
eastern Croatian town of Vocin in 1991 when local Croats were
massacred. He denied statements that his party's members committed
atrocities in Vukovar, and claimed that the accused Yugoslav
officers -- Veselin Sljivancanin and Mile Mrksic -- had no
connections with the crime at Ovcara.
The radical leader added that he would not change his mind and
confirmed he would travel to The Hague, after the Hague-based UN war
crimes tribunal issued an indictment against him.
"I have a life-time opportunity to become famous throughout the
world!" he commented.
Announcing "big showdowns" and "probably major bloodshed" in
Serbia, he said there were plans to nab the other ICTY indictees --
Ratko Mladic, Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic -- by March 31. He
also predicted the killing or extradition of some former and
incumbent police officials.
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