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80 People Injured in Pro-Karadzic Riots
| 30 July 2008 |
Reporters from Spanish television and Belgrade private news agency Beta, were among those hurt, hospitals said Wednesday.
The riots started as a group of protesters, identified as "football hooligans," attacked police during a rally organised by right-wing Radical Party, triggering clashes which lasted for more than an hour.
"We are gathering information, we are identifying the rioters," Serbia’s top prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic said, adding that "arrests will follow."
Serbian police fired tear gas at the stone-hurling and flare-throwing protesters, as some 16,000 people gathered in Belgrade's main square Tuesday.
The protest was backed by the Democratic Party of Serbia - the party of former Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica as well as hardline nationalist movements including Obraz and Movement 1389.
Aleksandar Vucic, a Radical Party leader called for Tadic's government to be overthrown. "Thank you for showing that Serbia is not dead, although it is being killed by Boris Tadic," Vucic told the crowd. "Thieves and bandits are ruling Serbia."
"We will fight for Serbia and Serbia will be free," he added, to thunderous applause and chants of "Uprising, Uprising!"
Pro-European President Boris Tadic of Serbia warned the demonstrators to remain peaceful.
"Everyone has the right to demonstrate, but they should know that law and order will be respected," Tadic said Tuesday.
Just hours later in a pre-dawn operation, Radovan Karadzic was transferred by Serbian authorities to the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12153/
