It was not Seselj’s, but Tudjman’s politics to blame for war

BELGRADE - The Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia said Monday that they did not agree with a recently expressed view by Croatian President Ivo Josipovic that the politics pursued by Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj had caused the war and suffering in Croatia in the 1990s, and argued instead that the primary responsibility for the war on the Croatian territory rested with the regime of the late Croatian president Franjo Tudjman.

"Numerous facts prove the thesis that the regime of Franjo Tudjman bears the primary responsibility for the war on the territory of Croatia ... It was a strategic objective of the Tudjman regime to create an ethnically pure Croat state devoid of Serbs or with as few Serbs as possible," the Coalition said in a release.

The goal could only be achieved by war, and the Serbs, a constituent people of Yugoslavia and Croatia, were violently and undemocratically thrown out of the Croatian constitution in 1990 and reduced to a minority, said the Coalition.

Croatian President Josipovic said Friday that Croatia should sent a letter to The Hague tribunal to inform them that war crimes indictee Seselj was violating the conditions of his provisional release from Scheveningen, which had been granted to him on the grounds of serious illness, as upon his return to Belgrade, he had immediately started to invoke the politics of hatred and division just like he had been doing in the wartime 1990s.

On his return to Belgrade, Seselj said that he still believed in the idea of Greater Serbia.

President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta said he did not support the idea of a Greater Serbia as it was unrealistic and irresponsible.

Linta believes that...