Serbian war crimes suspect receives hero's welcome

Serbian politician Vojislav Seselj was greeted by hundreds of supporters in Belgrade on Wednesday, as he vowed to overthrow “Serbian traitors” on his return.

Seselj, who has been released temporarily from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague to receive cancer treatment, said on his return,
"They say it is temporary... But it will be temporary only until we overthrow from power (President) Tomislav Nikolic and (Prime Minister) Aleksandar Vucic, our renegades and Serbian traitors."
Seselj, founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party, went on to say that the Serbian politicians in power had "sold our honour and gave up Serb nationalism to become servants of the West".

Earlier, he said he was going home "not for treatment, but for revenge".

Seselj also slammed the ICTY, calling the tribunal a "wounded globalist beast that is still destroying lives of prominent Serbian leaders and generals."

His release was criticised by victims organisations in Bosnia, with representatives saying calling it a  "shameful act" which "rewards the indictees while the victims are tricked."

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