Going To Extremes?

In many parts of the world, being indicted for war crimes might be seen as a political liability. Not in Serbia. In parliamentary elections scheduled for later this month — the first since Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party was thrown out of power in 2000 — no fewer than three of the political parties are headed by men who have been charged with war crimes.

Even stranger: one of them may be leading the pack. The Serbian Radical Party, led by ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj — who has been awaiting trial on charges of murder, ethnic cleansing and other crimes...