(24 Jul 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot street
2. Posters of Mladic and Karadzic, with text reading (Serbian) "These are our heroes."
3. Poster of Mladic reading (Serbian) 'He is our hero'
4. Various, posters of Mladic and Karadzic, on buildings
5. Wide shot street
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Janko Gicic, Visegrad resident
"He (Karadzic) is our hero. Those who arrested him should be sent to jail instead."
7. Flags outside building
8. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vox pop, no name given, Visegrad resident:
"I have to say that he was the man defending his territory. Look at my arm (showing a tattoo). I was a soldier, I say he was defending us."
9. Various, traffic and people on street
STORYLINE
Posters hailing former wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic as a hero have appeared on walls and windows in the Serb controlled east Bosnian town of Visegrad.
One showed a photo of Karadzic alongside his war time military commander and fellow genocide suspect Ratko Mladic.
Underneath, the text read: 'These are our heroes.'
Another poster showing only Karadzic's photo read: 'Radovan, you are our president. We won't give you away.'
That view was echoed by at least some Visegrad residents.
One, Janko Gicic, said of Karadzic: "He is our hero. Those who arrested him should be sent to jail instead."
Another described him as "the man defending his territory".
Support for the two former leaders was strong among Serbs in Bosnia right after the 1992-95 war, but now only a small radical pocket of Serb-held Bosnia still considers them heroes.
Officials said Karadzic was captured in Belgrade on Monday and was awaiting extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
However, Karadzic's lawyer insists his client was captured last Friday.
Mladic is still at large.
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