What the Most Famous Hague Indictees Suffer From: Šešelj Has Cancer, Mladić Is Not Psychologically Stable

None of those suspected of various crimes committed from 1992 to 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are currently on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, have a stable health condition, and some of them even have severe forms of cancer, writes the Bosnian news agency Patria (NAP).

The public is certainly most interested in the trial of former Bosnian Serb Army General Ratko Mladić, the first President of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadžić, as well as the trial of Chetnik Duke and one of the most influential Serbian politicians Vojislav Šešelj, along with all information related to their health condition.

Thus, according to information coming from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the most critical health condition is that of Vojislav Šešelj (60).

Vice President of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Milorad Mirčić said that metastases were discovered in two places on the liver of SRS leader Vojislav Šešelj, and that he will now undergo further examination to determine how far the tumor has spread.

President of the SRS Vojislav Šešelj is one of the most famous indictees of the Hague Tribunal, who has been in detention for 12 years.

The indictment charges him, among other things, with crimes in Croatia (Voćin, Vukovar hospital), BiH, and for persecution and liquidations of Croats from Vojvodina (especially Srijem, the well-known case of Hrtkovci, which he renamed to "Srbislavci" in his eradication of Croatian identity), i.e., for war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

War commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladić (70) has psychological problems. He resisted all global manhunts for 15 years. He was arrested in May 2011 in Serbia. From the first day he sat on the defendant's bench, it was evident that he had psychological issues.

The indictment charges Mladić with genocide in Srebrenica, persecution of Muslims and Croats throughout BiH, terrorizing the population of Sarajevo through a campaign of artillery and sniper attacks, and taking UN "blue helmets" hostage, from '92 to '95.

Radovan Karadžić (69) has interrupted his trial at the Hague Tribunal several times due to illness.

- I came here completely healthy - Karadžić told the judge during the trial and complained that his health condition was worsening due to the ventilator in the prison. He claimed that the ventilator caused him problems all summer, resulting in health consequences in the form of headaches, neck pain, and back pain.

He also complained that it distracts him, so he cannot focus on examining witnesses who accuse him of war crimes in BiH.

The trial of Slobodan Milošević certainly attracted the most interest, for war crimes in Kosovo and Croatia, and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which began in 2002 in The Hague.

The former President of Serbia did not recognize the International Court in The Hague, so he did not accept their doctors either, i.e., he refused the medications brought to him in detention, which later led to a heart attack from which he died in 2006, writes Patria.

Lesser-known indictees in The Hague, who are mostly younger than Šešelj, Mladić, and others, most often suffer from psychological ailments. On several occasions, many of them have said that they are haunted by the faces of children, women, and old people they killed during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, writes NAP.