(24 Jul 2008)
1. Push in on pro-Karadzic protesters surrounded by police
2. Close-up of badge showing Serb nationalist Voislav Seselj, who is now on trial in the Hague; badge reads: (Serbian) "STOP"
3. Pan of protesters
4. Line of police preventing march
5. Protesters begin march; singing nationalist songs
6. Protesters marching, clapping and chanting pro-Karadzic slogans
STORYLINE:
Dozens of ultra-nationalist demonstrators marched through the streets of Belgrade on Thursday in protest at ex-Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic's arrest.
The crowd was initially prevented from marching by a line of police who eventually allowed the march to go ahead.
The demonstrators sang ultra-nationalist songs and chanted pro-Karadzic slogans as they walked.
Serbian authorities have reported that Karadzic was arrested on Monday evening near Belgrade.
Investigations are now underway into whoever may have helped Karadzic assume his post war identity as a long haired health guru who went by the name of Dragan Dabic.
His self-reinvention allowed him to elude capture on United Nations genocide charges for more than a decade.
Since his arrest, Serbs have been enthralled by the former Bosnian Serb leader's transformation from the suit-and-tie politician who led Bosnian Serbs to their country's ethnic bloodletting.
Karadzic is accused of orchestrating the worst massacre of Bosnia's war, when Serb troops overran the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica and slaughtered thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
Karadzic also oversaw the three and a-half-year siege of Sarajevo, when Bosnian Serb troops starved, sniped and bombarded the city from hills high above the city.
An estimated 10-thousand people died.
By the time the Bosnian war ended in 1995, an estimated 250-thousand people were dead and another 1.8 (m) million driven from their homes.
Karadzic now faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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