Festival lauds war-crimes suspect:
SULA, Serbia-Montenegro — Supporters of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspect, Radovan Karadzic, trekked by the thousands yesterday to this remote mountain hamlet in his native Montenegro to launch a song festival in his honor. [...]
The former Bosnian Serb wartime leader is accused of orchestrating the 1995 slaughter of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica.
Yet the self-styled poet remains a hero among many nationalist Serbs and Montenegrins who believe he was unjustly accused merely because he devoted himself to Serbian interests during the 1992-95 Bosnian war by trying to create "Greater Serbia," a land that would encompass all Serbs living in the Balkans.
He remains at large despite a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture and extradition to the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
"Radovan, check your guards carefully, there are some Serbs who love money dearly," one musician sang at yesterday's festival while playing a "gusle," a traditional single-stringed instrument used by generations of Serbs. [...]
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