On this date, 24 March 2015, Supporters of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) staged a protest in
Belgrade when they burned flags of NATO, the EU, the United States, and Kosovo.
A similar incident happened again on 10 March 2016 by the leader, Vojislav
Seselj.
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Serb ultranationalist
leader Vojislav Seselj holds a burning European Union flag in front of the High
Court building in Belgrade, March 10, 2016.
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Serb Nationalist Defies
Court, Burns EU, NATO Flags
VOA News
March 10, 2016 4:35 PM
Serbian ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj set fire
to European Union and NATO flags outside a Belgrade court Thursday, insisting
he would not return to The Hague to hear the verdict in his war crimes trial
later this month.
Seselj, 61, who has liver cancer, was allowed to
return to Serbia for treatment in November 2014 while awaiting judgment from
the U.N. war crimes court.
Four months after Seselj was freed, judges in The
Hague ordered him to return March 31 to hear his verdict, saying he had broken
terms of his release by telling supporters he would never go back.
Seselj was tried on three counts of crimes against
humanity, which included persecution, deportation and forcible transfers, and
six other charges that included torture and murder during wars in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia’s Vojvodina region, amid the collapse of
Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Seselj surrendered in 2003, and his trial ran from
2007 to 2012.
Seselj’s display of defiance came after Serbia’s
High Court canceled a hearing on his extradition to The Hague tribunal on
Thursday, citing procedural reasons. The nationalist instead burned the EU flag
outside the building, saying, “It burns well,” before setting fire to the NATO
flag as well.
“I will not go voluntarily, but I will
use every opportunity to inflict expert professional, political and moral
damage on The Hague tribunal,” Seselj told dozens of cheering supporters.
The extradition could increase political pressure
on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and his Progressive Party just
before a parliamentary election on April 24. Vucic, a former protege of Seselj,
broke with his party in 2008 to pursue a more pro-Western course.
As leader of the far-right Serbian Radical Party,
Seselj plans to run for parliament in the coming election.
His return to The Hague might improve his
popularity, helping his party pass the 5 percent threshold of votes required to
enter parliament.
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Supporters of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) on
Tuesday March 24, 2015, staged a protest in Belgrade when they burned flags of
NATO, the EU, the United States, and Kosovo.
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Serbia:
Radical Party's Seselj burns EU and NATO flags outside court
Published on Mar 10, 2016
President of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav
Seselj burned EU and NATO flags outside the Higher Court in Belgrade one
Thursday. Seselj has been scheduled to appear at a hearing where he was to be
questioned on the Hague Tribunal's request that Serbia extradite him regarding
his war crimes trial dating back to the time of Yugoslavia. However, the
hearing was postponed. The Hague Tribunal has set March 31 as the date for the
reading of the verdict.
SOT, Vojislav Seselj, President of the Serbian Radical Party (Serbian): "After the adoption of the IPAP agreement with NATO, Serbia is no longer an independent and free country."
SOT, Vojislav Seselj, President of the Serbian Radical Party (Serbian): "This regime is making a mistake in the economic, social, educational, cultural and health policy, because it wants to introduce us into the European Union where all are traditional Serbian enemies. We will not go in the EU! We will not join NATO!"
SOT, Vojislav Seselj, President of the Serbian Radical Party (Serbian): "We Serbian Radicals will do everything in our power to prevent the delivery of Vjerica Radeta, Petar Jojic and Jova Ostojic to the Hague Tribunal."
SOT, Vojislav Seselj, President of the Serbian Radical Party (Serbian): "We are facing elections and the Serbian nation will know to assess who are the patriots and who are not. Who is fighting for an upright and free Serbia, and who wants Serbia in the EU and NATO slavery?"
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7CGicjkQI
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