Miljan Damjanović
Serbian Radical Party vice-president Miljan Damjanovic has said that the court in the Hague was going after him for contempt of court for distributing party leader Vojislav Seselj's books.
"I am being prosecuted because, as they say, I made publicly available, via publication, advertising, sale and other forms of distribution, books that contain confidential information as well as for making publicly available videos of court session, which were seen by all of Serbia" with a delay, Damjanovic told the Nov. 23 edition of the Politika newspaper.
"The indictment was raised because of the secretariat's nebulous order that I take back all of the copies of the books back and hand them to them - The Hague inquisitors," Damjanovic said, adding that he would not partake in book burning. He said that the indictment has arrived at the peak of the election campaign in Serbia and that Hague Tribunal had revealed itself to be a political institution through its actions.
Politika said that the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, the successor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia which had convicted the leader of the Radicals, had included Seselj, Miroljub Ignjatovic and Ljiljana and Ognjen Mihajlovic in addition to Damjanovic in the latest indictment.
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