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> Ultra-Nationalist is Ready for the Great Betrayal
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> Electronic Telegraph
> June 8, 1999 Vojislav Seselj
>
> NO one in Belgrade will be watching a withdrawal from Kosovo more
> beadily than Vojislav Seselj, a man whose Serb nationalism is more
> flecked with foam than the rhetoric of Milosevic himself.
>
> As the Serb leader last night reassured Western governments that he
> intended fully to honour his commitment to pull out of Kosovo, he
> increased the risk of a confrontation with the mercurial leader of the
> Radical party.
>
> Seselj, 44, has vowed that he will pull his 87 MPs out of the
> government as soon as the first Nato toe-cap touches Serb soil - a
> threat Milosevic must take seriously. That would in theory rob the
> Socialist bloc of its majority, and force an election which Milosevic
> could lose.
>
> More worryingly still, Seselj is strongly rumoured to have the support
> of key figures in the Third Army, which has just spent the past 74
> days being pounded in Kosovo. While most key generals are thought to
> be loyal to Milosevic, Belgrade analysts say some of the military are
> ready to throw in their lot with the ultra-nationalist. If the talks
> should fail again, it is feared that the army could decide to force
> Milosevic's hand, dig their trenches deeper in Kosovo, and dare Nato
> to launch a ground war.
>
> They would have the unflinching support of Seselj, who has denounced
> the Chernomyrdin-Ahtisaari deal as a "capitulation" and said
> yesterday: "The traitors now have their heads up. The Americans will
> stick their noses into our internal political relations, support those
> traitors, and start destroying what's left of Serbia."
>
> Seselj already has a passionate following among poorer Serbs,
> especially those who have already been made refugees from other parts
> of the former Yugoslavia. In the 200,000 who are now expected to be
> driven from Kosovo, he will have another constituency.
>
> Seselj is famous for his outrageous anti-Western pronouncements, in a
> vein similar to that of his friend, the Russian nationalist Vladimir
> Zhirinovsky. He recently called for Athens and Vienna to be bombed,
> and once called for the Croats to have their throats slit with spoons,
> "just to show how good Serb spoons are".
>
> But he also has a reputation as a first-class intellect. He was the
> youngest ever student to achieve a doctorate at Sarajevo University,
> with a thesis on fascism.
>
> In the early 1980s, he made his name as an anti-communist and is still
> a friend of Vuk Draskovic, leader of the Serb renewal party, who has
> toned down his rhetoric and earned the approval of the West. At one
> point he was thrown into prison for his dissent and his alleged
> maltreatment at the hands of Muslim warders is whispered to have fired
> his lust for vengeance during the Bosnian war, when he raised - though
> did not lead into battle - a paramilitary band.
>
> He is certainly no socialist to this day, and has accused Mira
> Markovic - the wife and coalition bedfellow of Milosevic - of being a
> "red witch". That did not stop him joining the Milosevic government as
> a vice-prime minister of Serbia; and his role so far has been to give
> vent to the kind of nationalist tirades that even Milosevic could not
> bring himself to utter.
>
> He has made it plain that if the deal goes through, he is finished
> with Milosevic; and while he is unlikely to take over, he can make
> life difficult for the Serb leader.
>
> "The Serbian Radicals will not accept the American, English and German
> occupiers, and the complete withdrawal of our army and police from
> Kosovo, because, according to this plan, Kosovo is no longer part of
> the Serbian legal system. An occupying administration is taking over
> this part of the country," he said.
>
> "The alternative was more bombing, but it would have had to stop at
> some point. Nato would not have easily dared begin a ground invasion."
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