In their closing arguments, the prosecution asked that Seselj be found guilty and sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and of Croats in Vojvodina.
He is 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, lead prosecutor Mathias Marcussen said, adding that the accused's individual criminal responsibility for the crimes charged in the indictment has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Seselj used his closing arguments to again accuse the ICTY of anti-Serb bias, saying that it was the product of a conspiracy by Western powers. He said that there were no legal grounds to convict him.