Where he expelled Croats in the 1990s, for which he was later tried before the International Court for War Crimes, the president of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Šešelj, organized a public celebration on Tuesday - in Hrtkovci
Under the big white tent, folk songs are blaring, people are celebrating, eating and drinking, and the event announced on Informer TV is being broadcast live from 16 p.m.
Except Vojislav Seselj and editor-in-chief of Informar Dragan J. Vučićević, some ministers, other members of the SRS, members of the SNS, PUPS, and musicians are also at the celebration.
The informer announced the event as "the best party ever seen", and the occasion is the national holiday, the Day of Serbian Unity, Freedom and the National Flag.
Here, people are Serbs and will be Serbed.
Vojislav Šešelj said in the live program that Serbian radicals are celebrating a Serbian holiday, and that he was surprised by the number of guests.
"We are the traditional great Serbian hosts and patriots. We need Serbian unity the most, Serbian enemies want to divide us and fight among themselves. They don't regret money to achieve that. We must oppose it with all means and we will succeed in it. Serbs are here and Serbs will be Serbs, and Greater Serbia is a radical oath," Seselj told Informer TV from Hrtkovci.
And a little more. That this progressive regime is too "soft", and that the enemies of Serbia, those who block it, should beware when the Radicals come to power and start to restore order.
And let it be known that they have not given up on the unification of Serbia with Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina, and they will return Kosovo and Metohija under Serbian control.
And he bought the house in Hrtkovci "out of spite", and since then, Serbian unity will be celebrated every September.
What happened in Hrtkovci 90s?
"Can we talk about Hrtkovci without dealing with what Vojislav Šešelj did in May 1992 and what his collaborators did afterwards with the intention of emptying this place of citizens of Croatian nationality, and how is it possible to live in a settlement that has changed its "ethnic structure" several times in the last 100 years, without talking about how and why it happened?", Slobodan Georgijev wrote in an article in "Vremen" in 2018.
In April 2018, the Mechanism for International Criminal Courts, which inherited the cases of the Hague Tribunal, sentenced the president of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Šešelj, to ten years in prison for inciting persecution, deportation and forced displacement, forcible relocation of Croats in the Vojvodina village of Hrtkovci in 1992.
After the sentencing, Seselj told Radio Free Europe that he was "proud of all the crimes" that, as he put it, were "attributed" to him, adding that he would repeat them.
"I will now take certain legal measures to refute that verdict, but what is most important in the end is that I am proud of all my attributed war crimes and crimes against humanity and I am ready to repeat them in the future," said Seselj, who remains free in Serbia, because the Chamber concluded that Seselj served his sentence while in custody from 2003 to 2014.
Death threats to non-Serbs
The indictment charging the "Chetnik Duke" stated that in May 1992, Vojislav Šešelj came to Vojvodina and met with his associates from the SRS and ordered his associates to address non-Serbs and threatened them with death if they did not leave the area.
"On May 6, 1992, Vojislav Šešelj gave a speech in the village of Hrtkovci, in Vojvodina, calling for the expulsion of Croats from the area and reading a list of certain Croatian residents who should go to Croatia. As a result of this speech, many Croatian residents decided to leave Hrtkovci. After this speech, supporters and associates of the accused, including members of the SRS and SČP (Serbian Radical Party and Serbian Chetnik Movement), started a campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at non-Serbs, especially Croats in Hrtkovci", the indictment read.
Over the next three months, many non-Serbs were abused, given death threats and intimidated, forcing them to leave the area. The homes of Croats were looted and occupied by Serbs, and Serb families displaced from other parts of the former Yugoslavia often occupied the homes of those who were forced to leave them, the indictment said.
Emigration of Croats
The fact is that Šešelj gave an "incendiary speech" on St. George's Day in 1992 in this village, after which there was an exodus of Croats who largely left Hrtkovci fearing reprisals from paramilitary units: according to the annexes of the indictment against Šešelj, his speech and what followed led to the departure of more than 700 people, "Vreme" wrote earlier.
Before the war in 1991, Croats made up more than 40 percent of the inhabitants of Hrtkovci, and today they are about 7,5 percent. According to the 2011 census, the village had slightly more than 3.000 inhabitants.
From 1992 to 1995, Hrtkovci was under the control of Serbian forces and was called Serbslavci.
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