Serb Hardliners Warn Tadic over Karadzic
25 July 2008 Belgrade _ Serbia's hardline Radical Party has threatened President Boris Tadic and certain media outlets over the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic."We warn Tadic that treason has never gone unpunished in Serbia. This is not a threat, but warning of the fate that followed traitors throughout Serbian history... I would remind the current rulers that they might not be as lucky as Zoran Djindjic. God punishes generations to come, and they should keep this in mind," said Vjerica Radeka of the Radical Party.
Djindjic, a reformist Serbian premier famous for extraditing late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague war crimes tribunal, was assassinated in Belgrade in 2003.
In addition to verbal threats, several top ranking Belgrade officials have received written death threats in recent days, including the head of country's Council for Cooperation with The Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajic and chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic, Belgrade media reported.
Police have reacted to those threats, raising the level of security around all government officials.
Radeka, who is a high-ranking official of Radical Party, also called on the Serbian Orthodox Church to condemn the traitors.
The latest list of 'traitors', according to Radicals, includes the state-run television Radio Television Serbia, RTS, and independent B92, whose reporters had been attacked by the mob during the Thursday's protest against Karadzic's arrest. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12064/
"The Serbian Radical Party condemns the media crackdown against all free-thinking forces in Serbia, organised by the pro-regime media, above all RTS and B92," Radicals said in a statement.
In addition, the deputy leader of Radical Party called his supporters for a boycott of RTS.
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