Tension mounts ahead of Karadzic rally - CNN.com

Tension mounts ahead of Karadzic rally - CNN.com: "BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) -- Tensions are mounting in Belgrade ahead of a rally expected to attract thousands of people in support of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who will soon be sent to The Hague to answer war crime charges."

The radicals and ultra-nationalists who plan to rally Tuesday evening view Karadzic as a hero even though an international tribunal has charged him with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war. The charges relate to his actions during the 1992-1995 civil war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.

Investigators arrested Karadzic -- one of Europe's most-wanted men -- last week, ending his dozen or so years as a fugitive. A judge has ruled that conditions have been met for his extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, but Karadzic's lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, has the right to appeal.