Serbian Town 'Likes Heroes, Should Honour Assange'

The founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing Web site should be honoured in this way "because the spirit of this city justifies the initiative, since Cacak likes heroes," a statement from the association said.

Belgrade's Vecernje Novosti daily writes that the statement describes Assange as a person who spoke on behalf of a "programmed world, robbed of its senses".

"He spoke the truth about vices, crimes, the dark side of diplomacy and the political medals that decorate the necks of the unworthy," the group said.

All this makes the Australian "a symbol of revolutionary action", and puts him on the way to becoming an equal to Che Guevara, while using the most powerful weapon of the new era - information, said the association, which is now gathering more than a thousand signatures necessary for the initiative to be submitted to the town hall.