Vojislav Šešelj
Vojislav Šešelj war criminal awaiting trial(Serbian- Војислав Шешељ) (born 11 October, 1954) is a Serbian politician, the president of the Serbian Radical Party during the 1990s. He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and violations of laws or customs of war by the ICTY and is currently detained in The Hague and awaiting trial.
Vojislav Šešelj was born in Sarajevo, and grew up in the Popovo polje in Herzegovina. He graduated law at the University of Sarajevo, and soon obtained a doctorate in 1979. He taught political science there until 1984. That year the Communist authorities of Yugoslavia convicted him of "counter-revolutionary activities" and sentenced him to eight years in prison, although the Supreme Court commuted the sentence and he was released in 1986.
In 1989, Šešelj went to the United States where pop Momčilo Đujić, a Chetnik leader from WWII, granted him the title voivoda of the Chetniks.
Šešelj became a leader of the political party Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski Pokret Obnove). Šešelj later split off his faction into the Serbian Radical Party.
They were amicable with Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia until September 1993 when he came in conflict with Milošević. Šešelj also landed in jail in 1994 and 1995.
He was the vice-president of Serbian government between 1998 and 2000. During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, he and his Serbian Radical Party were willing to support Slobodan Milošević, and after three months of bombardment they were the only party to vote against surrender to the NATO forces.
In late February 2003 Šešelj surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on the indictment of "eight counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of violations of the laws or customs of war for his alleged participation in a joint criminal enterprise".
As of 2005, he is still awaiting trial in custody, now over two and a half-years.
Trivia
He had good relationships with Jean-Marie Le Pen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Saddam Hussein.
Šešelj became a known orator despite the fact he has a rather pronounced rhotacism.
Šešelj is a highly controversial figure. In September 1994, the daily newspaper "Politika" had a report claiming to have a "taped version" of him and an unidentified man having a sado-masochist session in a private appartment in Belgrade. Šešelj firmly denied those claims saying it was an act of American spies, however 4 days later three high officials of his Serb Radical Party were fired from their positions. His wife is a controversial figure too. She had a son from her first marriage and was a waitress in a pub before marrying Šešelj. She has a degree in elementary school.
Political opponents have often poked fun at the fact that there are Catholic people with the surname Šešelj, besides the Orthodox ones. Some have thus suggested that he is actually a Croat. Vojislav Šešelj had on one occasion brought news reporters to his native village and showed them the Orthodox Church he was baptized in.
Internet Humor
In 2005, a video of him surfaced on the internet ridiculing the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia during a hearing, it was an instant hit in the serbian-croatian speaking nations.
On the request of prosecutor Jeffrey Nice, Seselj was reading from an earlier text he wrote: "Vi, svi pripadnici Sekretarijata Haškog tribunala, možete samo da prihvatite da mi popušite kurac." ("To all you members of The Hague tribunal you can only accept to suck my cock".)
He later continued "Moji pravni savetnici nisu moji branioci i zato ne moraju da ispunjavaju pravničke uslove koji su predviđeni za branioce. Oni samo moraju da ispune one uslove koje im ja propišem, a vi samo dalje ometajte pripremu moje odbrane, pa ćete na kraju morati da pojedete sva govna koja ste israli.Jebaću vam majku svima, počevši od Hansa Holcijusa pa nadalje, uključujući i onu bitangu Tjarda van der Spula." (My legal advisors are not my Defence counsel and that is why they need not fulfil the conditions stipulated by the Rules of Procedure and Evidence for Defence counsel. All they have to do is to fulfil those conditions which I prescribe for them. And you just can go on hampering my Defence, go ahead, but ultimately you are going to have to eat all the shit you excreted. Fuck you all, beginning with Hans Holthuis, and so on,including that motherfucker ...)
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