· Milosevic associate Seselj 'two weeks from dying'
· Ultra-nationalist's party likely to do well in polls

Ian Traynor in Zagreb
Thursday December 7, 2006
The Guardian

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague last night ordered the force-feeding of a Serbian warlord and senior politician who has been on hunger strike in custody for almost a month.
The decision, the first such order since the court was set up more than a decade ago to deal with war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, came after a medical examination of Vojislav Seselj concluded that he might be a fortnight away from dying.

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Mr Seselj, a former close associate of the late president Slobodan Milosevic and an ultra-nationalist leader who heads the strongest political party in Serbia, is an advocate of aggressive strategies aimed at creating a "Greater Serbia" by appropriating parts of Croatia and Bosnia and incorporating Albanian-populated Kosovo.
He is on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, when he allegedly led paramilitaries in "ethnic cleansing" operations against non-Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.