A former Serbian politician currently awaiting a verdict for a war crimes trial at The Hague has been released by the court, so that he can receive chemotherapy treatment for colon and liver cancer.
Vojislav Seselj, founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party, was released by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for “compelling humanitarian reasons.” The chemotherapy treatment is expected to last four to six months.
However his release was condemned by Jasmin Meskovic, President of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Association of Concentration Camp Victims, who said it was an "insult to the victims of war".
"Releasing Seselj temporarily is insulting to the victims of the Bosnian War and is like spitting in their faces," Meskovic added. "We of the Association of Concentration Camp Victims condemn this decision."
Seselj faces charges of murder, forced deportation, illegal imprisonment, torture and the destruction of property, after he allegedly recruited paramilitary groups and incited them to commit atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.