BELGRADE, Sept 17 (Hina) - The leader of Serb radicals and candidate in elections for Serbian president, Vojislav Seselj, said on Tuesday that the initiation of a Hague-based war crime tribunal's investigation into his involvement in
war crimes in Croatia "serves electoral purposes".
BELGRADE, Sept 17 (Hina) - The leader of Serb radicals and candidate
in elections for Serbian president, Vojislav Seselj, said on
Tuesday that the initiation of a Hague-based war crime tribunal's
investigation into his involvement in war crimes in Croatia "serves
electoral purposes". #L#
"The investigation started ten years ago, and so far they have not
managed to find anything on me. Not one volunteer of the Serb
Radical Party has been convicted for war crimes," Seselj told
Belgrade's agency Beta, commenting on the statements by Hague
prosecutors that an investigation was being carried out against
him.
Seselj said that the electoral committee of Vojislav Kostunica, the
incumbent Yugoslav president and candidate for Serbian president,
was spreading information about him being investigated, ahead of
the election on September 29.
Seselj, to whom the Dutch Embassy has refused to issue a visa on
several occasions, said that "as soon as I take the presidential
oath;" he would go to The Hague to visit former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic, one of former Bosnian Serb leaders, Momcilo
Krajisnik, and general Momir Talic, all indicted for war crimes.
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