Seselj was born in 1954, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then part of Socialst Federative Rep

blic of ! goslavia" #fter grad ating in law as the best st dent in class and ta$ing a %h& degree and beco'ing the ( ongest %h& in ! goslavia ever" )n the 19*+s he beca'e one of the (o ngest teaching assistants at the Sarajevo ,aw Fac lt( before being e-pelled fro' the niversit( in 19*4 for nationalistic state'ents" # Sarajevo co rt jailed hi' for eight (ears, b t the ter' was c t to two" #fter release fro' prison Seselj 'oved to Belgrade, where he i''ersed hi'self in the Serbian political circles which were opposing the ! goslav .o'' nist regi'e" He started to p blicl( gravitate towards the ideas of the .hetni$s, the Second /orld /ar followers of a Serb nationalist ar'( officer called &raza 0ihailovic" )n 199+, as the co'' nist one1part( s(ste' was disintegrated in ! goslavia, he fo nded his own Serbian .hetni$ 0ove'ent" 2hat (ear he was arrested and i'prisoned for attac$ing the Ho se of Flowers, the 'e'orial to ! goslavia3s longti'e .o'' nist leader, 4osip Broz 2ito" /hile in prison, he stood as a presidential candidate in the first ' lti1part( elections in the for'er ! goslavia and won aro nd 9+,+++ votes" His strong nationalist ideas led hi' to fo nd a new right politcal 'ove'ent, the Serbian Radical %art(, in 1991" )n the sa'e (ear he beca'e a 'e'ber of Serbia3s 5ational #sse'bl(" ! goslavia then began to fall apart, as ar'ed conflicts spread fro' Slovenia to .roatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina" Seselj seized the 'o'ent and for'ed a vol ntar( para'ilitar( nit, nic$na'ed the 6Seseljevci6, which were placed nder the co''and of the reg lar Serbs ar'( in accordance with the law on national defense" Seselj beca'e $nown as a great oratpr, which he sed to give a 'oral boost to the Serbs across the region" Seselj has established the 'odern idea of 67reat Serbia6 based on the principle" Seselj8s 7reat Serbia incl ded all of present1da( Serbia and other historicall( Serb lands li$e 0acedonia, 0ontenegro, Bosnia and 0ontenegro, as well as 'ost of .roatia" 2he idea of niting Serbs in one state g ided hi' and other Serbs who were fighting for the liberation of Serbian people" & ring 199+s Seselj was in open co'flict with Serbia3s leader, Slobodan 0ilosevic and his regi'e" & ring 0ilosevic Socialist gover'ent he was arested seven ti'es and spent shorter ti'e in prision"

)n the 199* Seselj8s part( for'ed a govern'ent of national nit( in order to defend the co ntr( 'ore easil( fro' the 5#29 agression with other parties incl ding the 0ilosevic3s part(" Seselj beca'e a vice1president of the Serbian govern'ent" 9n the 9ctober 5, :+++, there was a co p aided b( the ;nited States and after new elections Seselj and his part( went into opposition with onl( few seats in parlia'ent" 2hree (ears later the )nternational .ri'inal 2rib nal for for'er ! goslavia, ).2!, filed charges against Seselj, acc sing hi' of persec tion on political, racial and religio s gro nds, deportations and other inh 'ane acts as well as violation of the c sto's of war d ring conflicts in the for'er ! goslavia fro' 1991 ntil 199<" #ccording to the indict'ent Seselj was s ch an i'portant political fig re responsible pro'oting the idea of niting all Serbian lands in a one Serbian state and together with other 'e'bers of =joint cri'inal enterprise>, a'ong others with Slobodan 0ilosevic with who' he was in conflict and who has sent hi' in prison seven ti'es 6involved in the recr it'ent, for'ation, financing, s ppl(ing and directing Serbian vol nteers connected to the SRS, s all( called 3Seseljevci3 6" Seselj also was not co''ander of vol ntaril( troops, b t he has onl( recr ited the vol nteers and sent the' to fight nder the co''and of the reg lar ar'(" #lso, those (ears he wasn3t the part of the govern'ent and he hadn3t power to co''it those cri'es that he is charged for" )n international law hate speech as a cri'e is first 'entioned in the j dg'ent in case %rosec tor v" 5ahi'ana in :++< and according to the principle of =no cri'e and no p nish'ent witho t law> ?n ll ' cri'en n lla poena sine lege@ Seselj co ldn3t be charged for hate speech co''itted between 199: and 1995, even if it was the tr th and it is not" He vol ntaril( s rrendered that (ear, b t his trial did not begin for fo r (ears ntil :++A after (ears of dela(s and obstr ctions b( the prosec tor who didn3t have an( evidence against Seselj so he was not able to write an indict'ent for fo r (ears" #'ong the others, co rt didn3t want to allow hi' to defend hi'self and beca se of that he had started a h nger stri$e which lasted :* da(s and s cceeded after for the righ to defend hi'self alone" Seselj said abo t the law(er who was i'posed b( the ).2!B !o falsel( presented this 'an with a bird3s nest on top of his head [alluding to the lawyers wig that he was wearing in a court] as '( defence law(er" He will never be '( defence law(er" !o bro ght actors here to act as '( defence law(ers b t the( will never be '( defence law(ers" 2he( are (o r spies,> he told the co rt" He has ref sed to ac$nowledge that he participated in an( cri'e that the ).2! charged hi' with, b t he has not bac$trac$ed on his political ideas"

6) a' being tried for atrocio s war cri'es that ) allegedl( co''itted thro gh hate speech as ) preached '( nationalist ideolog( of which ) a' pro d,> Seselj said in one appearance before the 2rib nal" Seselj in his last p blic appearance before he s rrendered saidB 6&o not give an( Serbs to ).2! after 'e, don3t give the' Radovan Caradzic, and don8t give the' Rat$o 0ladic" 2he( have no evidence that ) participated, incited, concealed or rged war cri'es,6""" 6/ith their st pid charges against 'e the( have co'e p against the greatest living legal Serb 'ind" ) shall blast the' to pieces,6 he added" #part fro' the war cri'e proceedings, Seselj has been sentenced for conte'pt of co rt after ,as referred to in the j dg'ent, >he disclosed the identit( of a protected witness in his boo$"> #ltho gh there is no legal s(ste' in the world where acc sed can be charged for conte'pt of co rt" 2o 'a$e things even f nnier, in the sa'e co rt #lbanian terrorist Ra' sh Haradinaj, who $illed over thirt( witnesses who sho ld have to testif( in Haradinaj3s case, is released d e lac$ of evidence" )n the sa'e 'onth, after he ret rned to the trial, Seselj de'anded : 'illion e ro in da'ages, acc sing the 2rib nal of violating his h 'an rights d ring his detention" 5ow, after 11 (ears of detention the prosec tion has called for :* (ears i'prison'ent for Seselj, stating that it has been proven that he co''itted war cri'es and that he showed no re'orse" Seselj

For 11 years trail is going on and he is not accused that he killed someone or gived order for killing, but that when he said muslim are trying to take our teritory we must do do whatever is needed to keep it, then prosecutor said someone might think that means kill all the muslims for teritory and seselj should know that someone could make crime so he shouldn`t say anything about conflict. Another thing is while alaged crimes happened he was in oposition not in government, he was many times aressted by ilosevic, but they say he was in some secret conspiracy project with serbian government. !n "#. "$.%"1% trail ended with prosecutor finishing his part of proces, seselj asked from court money for his defence in trail but hague said we cant give you money that you ask, you should get money by yourself. &o he said ' am not gonna show my defence anyway you didn`t proved that ' am guilty so ' don`t even need defence. ' tell you this so you know that 11 years is just time that court needed to presend evidence against him and there was not defence so if it was trail would go for more the 1# years. (uring his time in hague he had trail for comptent of court few times, thing is woman named )atasa *andic who was cooperating with prosecution realised names of protected witnises in

her book, so seselj took those same names and puted them on web site wit promision of those witnises that wanted public to know there names. &o he didn`t give out names of protected witnises bu *andic thid, before he put there names on web+site he contaced them and asked can ' do that and they said yes, they confirmed in court that sesel is not guilty and they wanted to go public, nut court said we are gonna give you snetence anyway. ,e also said if ' am gulty the you should put in prision )atasa *andic but they said its not up to you to thik about that, in the end she was never charged for giving those names. After that sentece they told seselj you should take of those books with names of protective witnises from your site, but he said no ' am already punished for that and that-s it, after that they made another case aginst him because he would take down books with names from his site, so they done another trail against him for contempt of court and sentenced him again for the same thing that he was already punished its like convicting you two times for one crime. 'n the end he had another proces for contempt of court and now he has .years and / mounts of punisment for contempt of court just to make no mistake those punismants started this way firs july %"1" second $1 october %"11 third punishment was made on %0 jun %"1% third.

After "#. "$.%"1% proces ended with closing argument of sesel and prosecutor, so by rules of hague they have time limit of % mounts so on march of %"1% they had deadline to make sentence, and they broke it, firs they said his trail is difenert we need more time, after that one of the jurdges. &o he waited until "1 of july %"1$, when letter of the jurges Frederich ,arhof from (enmark was made public by media, in that letter he said that his opinion is that all acused should go to prision int doesn`t mater if there is evidence or not. After that seselj said to court that harhof should be dis1ualified from decsion beacause he must be objectiv and he is not. 2ourt firt made decision to dis1ualifie him then said no we gonn put dis1ualification on hold, and again they changed they mind and finaly but harhof away. !n $1.1". %"1$ more the year after trail ended they asinged new judge from senegal madiaje nijang and he should take part in decision althou he was never in court, never saw evidnece in court room and so on3 so now new jurge should look at all evidence that was made between %""4 and %"1%, they didn-t set date for sentence so when nijang feels he is ready he will tell president of court ' made a decision.