BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbian nationalists attacked police in Belgrade on Sunday at a rally where about 10,000 protesters demanded President Boris Tadic and his government quit over the arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic.
Mladic, indicted for genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, was found on Thursday in a village 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Belgrade after 16 years on the run.
Supporters of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party and of similar organisations were brought in by bus from across the country. Many came straight from Sunday soccer matches.
Five protesters and two policemen were seriously injured in the clashes, Belgrade’s emergency hospital said.
“With the arrest of General Mladic…with its pro-Western policies, Boris Tadic’s regime betrayed all interests of the Serbian nation,” Radical Party official Lidija Vukicevic told the crowd from a stage.
“Serbia is sick of humiliation,
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