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Croatian PM criticizes verdict of acquittal for Seselj

Xinhua, March 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic said on Thursday the acquittal of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj for war crimes charges was "shameful" and a defeat for the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Earlier Thursday, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague ruled Seselj was not guilty of all counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

Oreskovic said it was known Seselj had committed crimes during the war and he had not shown any remorse, neither now or then.

Serbia should react, he said in the eastern Croatian city Vukovar where he laid a wreath for victims of the 1991 to 1993 war, local news paper Vecernji List reported.

"Serbia's road to the EU is the right path and I hope our neighbor will behave in the right way," he added.

Seselj, 61, served as Serbian deputy prime minister from 1998 to 2000, surrendered to the ICTY voluntarily in 2003 and was indicted of three counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes for inciting ethnic cleansing in Croatia, Bosnia, and the Serbian province of Vojvodina during 1991 to 1993.

The former deputy prime minister denied all the charges. Endite