JARAK, Serbia — Serbian police on Sunday prevented a Serbian far-right leader convicted of war crimes from returning to an ethnically-mixed northern village where he spurred ethnic hatred during the 1990s’ Balkan war. Dozens of policemen sealed off Hrtkovci, 40 kilometres northwest of Belgrade, blocking Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and his supporters from reaching the village and rallying there. Police later said they were searching for a man who punched a Liberal Democratic Party member. The Liberal Youth Initiative for Human Rights group demanded Sunday that authorities strip Seselj of his parliamentary seat because of the war crimes conviction. Some 100,000 people died in the war in the 1990s that erupted after the breakup of the former, multi-ethnic Yugoslav federation.

Source: National Post May 06, 2018 10:45 UTC