Timeline of events leading up to the closing arguments in the Seselj's trial
1954: Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of Yugoslavia
1971: Becomes a member of the Communist League
1984: Convicted of counter-revolutionary activities and sentenced to two years in prison
1986: Leaves Sarajevo and moves to Belgrade
1990: Founds the Serbian Chetnik Movement, which was banned shortly after
1991: Forms the Serbian Radical Party
1991: Elected to the Serbian Parliament
1991: Gains a reputation as a vicious warlord in the conflict in Croatia and Bosnia
1992: Seselj’s followers commit war crimes in towns Zvornik, Vukovar and Bosanski Samac
1993: Splits with Milosevic and forces dissolution of the parliament
1996: Seselj becomes President of Belgrade municipality Zemun
1998: Rejoins Milosevic’s government to become the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
1999: Seselj and his party members resigned from the Milosevic’s government
2002: Runs for president in the election and receives 36.3 per cent of the vote
2003: Indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; surrenders to the court
2007: The trial begins after one unsuccessful attempt and a hunger strike by the accused
2009: Sentenced for contempt of court
2012: Requests 2 million euro reparation for the violation of his human rights by the ICTY
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Timeline of events in the case against 13 former Serb fighters charged with committing war crimes in the villages of Cuska, Zahac, Ljubenic and Pavlac in Kosovo in 1999.