Netherlands ? Judges at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague have suspended the trial of a prominent Serb suspect, who is on a hunger strike, due to his weakening health.

In the decision dated Friday, judges said Vojislav Seselj would likely be too weak to instruct his lawyer next week and ordered “postponement of the presentation of evidence in this case until further notice.”

Seselj, 52, is accused of conspiring with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other leaders to purge non-Serbs from parts of Croatia and Bosnia to create a “Greater Serbia” during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Seselj has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 11, protesting a court-appointed legal adviser who was to step in if Seselj were stripped of his right to act as his own lawyer. Judges stripped him of that right on Nov. 27 after he failed to appear in court.

He was protectively moved to a prison hospital on Nov. 29 but has so far refused any treatment.