Serb Refuses to Plead on ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
From Times Wire Reports
Serbian ultranationalist leader Vojislav Seselj declined to enter a plea at the Hague war crimes tribunal to charges of “ethnic cleansing,†emulating the courtroom defiance of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Seselj accused the U.N. court of torture -- forcing him to wear a flak jacket -- as he faced 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia between 1991 and 1993. Seselj also complained of translation errors and followed in Milosevic’s footsteps by opting to defend himself.
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