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BELGRADE, Serbia: A Serb ultranationalist leader awaiting trial before a Netherlands-based U.N. war crimes court has gone on a hunger strike, his associate and the tribunal said Saturday. Vojislav Seselj — in detention at the U.N. court, which indicted him for alleged war crimes during the 1990s wars in Croatia and Bosnia — has started "refusing food or drink except plain water," and also declines any medication for his high blood pressure and asthma, said Aleksandar Vucic, an official of Seselj's hardline Radical Party. Seselj has demanded that the court allow his wife to visit him. He also wants "free...

Ground-Breaking Srebrenica Guilty Plea By Emir SuljagicInstitute for War and Peace ReportingMay 2, 2003 Key suspect provides unprecedented and chilling inside account of the Bosnian Serb atrocity. In a watershed confession on May 6, former Bosnian Serb security officer Momir Nikolic pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity for his role in the 1995 killing of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men from Srebrenica. Dressed in a dark green suit, Nikolic appeared visibly disturbed as he appeared before the tribunal. He bit his lips in agitation as he offered his plea. In exchange for his admission of guilt, the prosecution...