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Serb nationalists clash with police after Karadzic arrest
DPA ^ | July 22, 2008

Posted on 07/22/2008 1:45:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Belgrade - Serb nationalists protesting the arrest of Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic trashed businesses and clashed with police Tuesday in downtown Belgrade, news reports said.

After several hundred demonstrators gathered at Republic Square, a group of about 50 broke chairs and windows in several bars and attacked police. They fled when riot police appeared.

Three young men were arrested, Serb media said. No injuries were reported.

The protesters, who sang patriotic songs and wore shirts with Karadzic's face, began dispersing after a speech by the secretary- general of the ultranationalist Radical Party, Aleksandar Vucic.

Vucic said the Radicals would organize large protests in the next few days.

'I hope we'll organize large, massive protests and that we will show that we didn't kill Serbia,' he said.

The Radicals were the only one Serb party not to welcome Karadzic's arrest, which they compared to killing Serbia. Serbian authorities and European Union governments welcomed the arrest as a step toward the EU.

Karadzic, indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, was arrested Monday night in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, after 12 years on the run.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antijihad; dhimmwit; homosexualagenda; karadzic; wrongside

Serbian radicals express regret with Karadzic arrest - July 22, 2008 - Belgrade. The Deputy Chairman of the Serbian Radical Party Tomislav Nikolic said that Radovan Karadzic was not a war criminal and his only problem was the fact that he was a Serb, RIA Novosti reports.

‘This is a difficult day in the Serbian history, because Radovan Karadjic was captured’, Nikolic said, speaking with journalists in Belgrade.

Bosnian Serb Hardliners 'Angry' at Arrest - July 22, 2008 - Serbian Democratic Party members from Republika Srpska consider that the arrest of the former leader is shameful, adding that they do not believe that the Hague Tribunal is impartial. The Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, which was led by Radovan Karadzic for many years, is surprised by his arrest. Its members do not believe that he will have a fair trial before the Hague Tribunal, which they consider as "an anti-Serbian court".

"We are surprised. The arrest of Radovan Karadzic comes as a consequence of the establishment of new government in Serbia. In general, we do not trust the Hague Tribunal. We consider that it does not bring justice, and, as proven so many times up to now, this is a political court," says Mladen Bosic, current SDS president.

Besides those who share Karadzic's political ideas, members of the Serbian Radical Party of Republika Srpska and members of "Vojislav Seselj's" Radical Party are disappointed by the arrest. Milanko Mihajlica, President of the Serbian Radical Party, told reporters that Karadzic's arrest represents "the biggest Serbian dishonor, misery and orchestrated historical deception".

Mirko Blagojevic, President of "Vojislav Seselj's" Serbian Radical Party, says that he was "very upset" when he heard about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, adding that he tried to hide "tears from his family".

"I was up all night. This is very hard. One should not be ashamed of crying about a man like Radovan Karadzic, who will be handed over to a political, anti-Serbian court," Blagojevic told Justice Report.

"I must say that I am unhappy. Those who feel happy today, do not have any reasons for that. Karadzic did so many things to preserve peace in Bosnia and to save the Serbian people, whose leader he once was," Blagojevic said...

1 posted on 07/22/2008 1:45:42 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Whatever will the Serb-haters whine about now?


2 posted on 07/22/2008 2:53:26 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Ghost_of_RBJ; Admin Moderator

Latest screen name for Ronly Bonly Jones, I see. Think the Moderators are blind?


3 posted on 07/23/2008 4:41:15 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...

Ronly Bonly Jones latest incarnation seems content to bait folks using PM’s along.

He’s going to hate watching the trial if the truth about the so-called Srebrenica (Squawk!) “Massacre” come out into the light.


4 posted on 07/23/2008 4:45:53 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib; nkycincinnatikid; NYC Republican; wideawake; demshateGod; 1rudeboy; GAB-1955; 1035rep; ..
Pro-Karadzic rally leads to arrests - BELGRADE, Serbia, July 23 (UPI) -- Five Serbian nationalists were arrested in Serbia during a rally against the arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, government officials said. More than 100 Serb nationalists, including members of the far-right Obraz group, rallied in central Belgrade, hurling cafe furniture and firecrackers at police when they tried to disperse the crowd, RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, reported Wednesday. Tempers calmed after Serbian Radical Party Secretary-General Alexander Vucic urged protesters to show restraint and thanked them for their "love of Serbia, the Serb people, Radovan Karadzic, and their willingness to fight for Serbia," the news agency said.
...Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said Karadzic's arrest was an "unseemly step" and resulted from "every form of crude political, economic and media pressure put on Belgrade by the West." - LINK
6 posted on 07/23/2008 3:08:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
100?

Can't even make a good Spartan movie with those numbers.

7 posted on 07/23/2008 4:26:19 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Next is Ratso.


8 posted on 07/24/2008 2:22:43 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: M. Espinola
Serb nationalists again clash with police over Karadzic arrest - July 24, 2008 - Belgrade - Several hundred Serb nationalists protesting the arrest of Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic clashed for a third successive evening with police in downtown Belgrade Thursday, news reports said. They threw bottles, rocks and fireworks, and burned the flags of political opponentns. Journalists were also attacked and their equipment damaged. Senior members of the ultranationalist Radical Party again took part, the reports said. The Radicals were the only Serb party not to welcome Karadzic's arrest, which they compared to killing Serbia.

Serb Nationalists Plan Daily Karadzic Protests - July 24, 2008 - Belgrade _ The Serbian Radical Party has announced on its website that protests against the arrest of Radovan Karadzic will take place daily, but at the same time denied it is the organiser. Some 300 people gathered at Belgrade’s central Republic Square again on Wednesday, most of them wearing t-shirts with images of Radovan Karadzic and his wartime Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic, who remains at large. They burned a flag of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the party of former Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic, which has now switched ranks and has joined the new pro-European government. Karadzic's brother Luka, Serbian Radical Party officials Bozidar Delic, Vjerica Radeta, Nemanja Sarovic, Momir Markovic, the leader of an extremist group calling itself the Tsar Lazar Guard, Hadzi Andrej Milic and Roma activist Dragoljub Ackovic were among those at the protest. Six Russian nationals carrying Russian army unit flags have also reportedly been seen. Radeta told journalists that the protest has been joined by Radical Party lawmakers and Belgrade assembly members. "This is an introduction to a big rally that we will organise at the start of next week," she revealed, and went on to brand Serbia's President Boris Tadic and the new government as traitors. Radeta added that the Democratic Party of Serbia of former Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and ally, the New Serbia party, will be asked to join the rally next week.

'We are with you, President' - 07/24/2008 - Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Posters calling arrested Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic a "hero" were plastered around the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad on Thursday. Bearing the picture of the wartime Bosnian Serb political leader, the posters declaring "We are with you, President" had appeared overnight but were hastily removed by police in the morning.

"We will not betray you," said a poster bearing Mladic's face. Other posters showed images of the pair together, declaring them "Serbian heroes".

9 posted on 07/24/2008 11:49:48 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I put them on the same level as the people who faint during Obama rallies.


10 posted on 07/25/2008 5:40:40 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib
Karadzic supporters turn out in show of defiance and devotion - July 28, 2008 - "I am here for life of Radovan Karadzic," said a man in the Serbian Orthodox church in Bratunac, a town a mere 10kms down the road from Srebrenica where in 1995 Serb forces loyal to Karadzic murdered more than 8,000 Muslims. On Saturday morning local radio reported that the Serbian Democratic Party, the SDS, which was founded by Karadzic, wanted people across Republika Srpska, the self-governing Serbian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to assemble in towns and villages at midday in town and then go to their local Serbian Orthodox churches and hold vigils for him.

Pro-Karadzic vigils were held also in Banja Luka, capital of Republika Srpska, and Pale, the war-time base of Karadzic and Mladic in the mountains above Sarajevo. Many people carried pictures of Karadzic. Most Bosnian Serbs see both him and Mladic as heroic defenders of the Serb nation and say the charges are false accusations founded on anti-Serb propaganda. "More than 200 Bosnian Serb war veterans are ready to testify in The Hague that Karadzic is innocent, and prove that there was also Serb victims in that war," said Slavko Jovicic, a member of a veterans' association, who was marching in Pale in support of Karadzic. In Bratunac, a young woman explained she was at the vigil because "I am a Serb and I love Republikla Srpska and Serbia".


Supporters of ex-Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic hold up
pictures of him, during a protest in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 28, 2008.


A Bosnian Serb woman holds up a picture of Radovan Karadzic with the words 'we are with you' as people
gathered to pray for him in his wartime stronghold of Pale, near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo July 26, 2008.


Bosnian Serbs hold up pictures of Radovan Karadzic in his wartime
stronghold of Pale, near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo July 26, 2008.


Bosnian Serb youths holding photos of Radovan Karadzic with the words 'The Power of Prayer' underneath during
a peaceful protest in the war time Serbian stronghold of Pale, near Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Saturday, July 26, 2008.


A Bosnian Serb man holds a photo of Radovan Karadzic in front of a Serbian flag during a peaceful protest
in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka,120 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Karadzic supporters threaten chaos - July 28, 2008 - Hard-line supporters of Serbian mass killer Radovan Karadzic are threatening to bring violent chaos to Belgrade on Tuesday with a huge rally in his support. The former president will probably still be in the country after plans to extradite him to the UN war crimes tribunal on genocide charges hit delays on Monday. There were fears that the ultra-nationalists plan to prevent Karadzic's extradition by force. The rally organisers - the right-wing Serbian Radical Party - were bringing in supporters from all over Serbia and Bosnia. The court in Belgrade dealing with the ex-Bosnian Serb leader's case said that his appeal against extradition had not yet arrived. Karadzic's lawyer Svetozar Vujacic admitted he posted the appeal at the last possible moment late on Friday, trying to delay Karadzic's extradition until after the rally. "Karadzic is a Bosnian Serb citizen, so it would be logical that the appeal was mailed from Bosnia," Mr Vujacic said on Monday. "I wouldn't rule out that my appeal grows a beard and moustache before it gets here."

Mr Vujacic said: "They (the authorities) are using all illegal means to try send him to The Hague before the rally." "Karadzic and I want to make sure it does not happen."

Belgrade braced for backlash - July 28 2008 - Police in riot gear took up positions around the Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday, in a show of strength aimed at preventing a violent nationalist backlash over the expected extradition of Radovan Karadzic to The Hague this week.

In a further sign of the darkening political atmosphere, a hardline nationalist MP, Vjerica Radeta, at the weekend pointedly likened Mr Tadic to Zoran Djindjic, the pro-western prime minister assassinated in 2003. "We remind Tadic that in Serbia there is no forgiveness for treachery. We are not threatening, just warning him of the curse that follows all traitors in Serbian history," she said at a Radical Party press conference at the weekend. Slobodan Radovanovic, acting chief prosecutor, asked for video tape of the press conference, adding the he would investigate "any events that may threaten the security of the state and undermine peace and stability".

Death threats to Serbian president over Karadzic arrest - Jul 26, 2008 - Belgrade - After the arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, Serbian President Boris Tadic has received death threats, the president's office confirmed Saturday. 'You are a dead man,' 'Remember God is great and the curse is upon you,' 'You call yourself a Serb? You betrayed the Serbs and God willing you'll end up like Djindjic' were just some of the threats that began coming into the president's office e-mail a day after the arrest of Karadzic.

On Friday, a high ranking official of the opposition ultra- nationalist Radical Party, Vjerica Radeta, called Tadic 'a traitor' and warned him that he will end up like Djindjic. She also accused Tadic of sending 'provocateurs' to beat up journalists who covered street protests in Belgrade. Radicals and several ultra-nationalist organizations have organized daily street protests in Belgrade over the arrest of Karadzic. Several journalists were attacked during the protests and one was seriously injured. Protesters also clashed with police and smashed offices and bars. Radicals plan to hold an 'All Serbs' protest on Tuesday.

11 posted on 07/28/2008 6:56:10 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I can find you more Obama supporters in the US than Karadzic supporters in Serbia.

Who represents more of a threat to America, I wonder?

The Serbs arrested him and the Serb-haters STILL want to whine, whine, whine about it. What a pack of sissies!


12 posted on 07/28/2008 8:00:40 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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