As of today, Vojislav Seselj is a free man, according to the decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Trial Chamber was presided by Jean-Claude Antonetti, while the other two members of the Chamber were Flavia Lattanzi and Mandiaye Niang. Judge Lattanzi did not agree with the verdict.
Most of the members of the Council concluded that the prosecution failed to prove the existence of a joint criminal enterprise (JCE), and that Seselj is not guilty for persecution, deportation, torture, wanton destruction and plunder, from August 1991 to September 1993.
Trial Chamber also stated that Seselj could not have a relationship with the volunteers from the moment they got involved in the structure of the YNA, the Yugoslav Army or the Army of Republika Srpska.
Seselj is also acquitted of charges for instigating the crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vojvodina.
Seselj was acquitted of three counts of crimes against humanity: persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds, forcible deportation and then inhumane acts (forcible transfer); six counts of war crimes, including murder, torture, wanton destruction, destruction, or willful damage to religious and educational institutions, as well as plunder of public and private property.
The prosecution previously requested 28 years in prison for his role in the ethnic cleansing under the patronage of Serbia.
(Source: radiosarajevo.ba)
