The nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) will stage a mass demonstration in Belgrade on Sunday to protest against the arrest of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic who is facing trial on war crimes and genocide charges.
The rally under the slogan "Stop betrayal!" will take place in front of the country's parliament building in the center of Serbian capital at 07:00 p.m. local time (17:00 GMT).
The party, the second largest in the Serbian legislature, promised to take thousands to the streets to protest against what it described as a "blow to the Serbian national interests."
Sunday's protest is expected to become the largest since Mladic was arrested on Thursday on a farm owned by a cousin about 100 km (60 miles) from Belgrade. The SRS has said the rally will be peaceful and asked the demonstrators to maintain order during the protest, echoing Mladic's call for his supporters to refrain from bloodshed.
Several dozen people were arrested during clashes between Mladic supporters and his opponents following the announcement of his arrest.
The former general, who had been on the run for more than a decade before he was captured by Serbian security services, is accused of playing a key role in ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War in 1992-95, including the massacre of some 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
Mladic is being held at the special war crimes court in Belgrade awaiting extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
BELGRADE, May 29 (RIA Novosti)
