THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Nationalist Serb Vojislav Seselj condemned the United States for forming an illegal U.N. war crimes court in Netherlands to try Serbs.
In a statement before the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Seselj Thursday said the anti-Serb, illegal and illegitimate court was given a task by Washington to falsify Serbian recent history, Serbia’s Belgrade B92 radio reported.
Seselj said his paramilitary units hadn't committed any crime but only defended Serbs who were threatened by Croats and Muslims in Yugoslav wars from 1991-95.
However, Seselj, 53, said a Greater Serbia is a long-term goal of his ultra-nationalist Serb Radical Party, of which he is still the leader. Seselj’s Radical party is the single biggest group in the Serbian parliament.
He said he didn't plan to expel millions of people from their homes during the war in the former Yugoslav republics but his idea was to convince non-Serbs they actually are ethnic Serbs.
Wednesday, when the trial reopened after a year’s recess, U.N. prosecutor Catherine Dahl said Seselj’s poisonous rhetoric fomented the Yugoslav ethnic wars.
Seselj told the court he was innocent of killing Croats, Muslims and other non-Serbs in the Yugoslav wars.
