"We support the brave and impressive struggle of Slobodan Milosevic for the truth before a fake tribunal, where he is defending every soldier, policeman, officer and honourable citizen," SPS Vice President Milorad Vucelic told about 2,000 people who gathered at the rally. He added that the Serbian people cannot be identified with the crime as they, he said, had nothing to do with it.
The demonstrators carried party flags and photos of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the war-time Bosnian Serb leaders who are wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes.
There were also banners with messages against the director of the Fund for Humanitarian Law, Natasa Kandic, and another two human rights activists in Belgrade, Sonja Biserko and Borka Pavicevic.
Former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was ousted from power on 5 October 2000, was arrested in the night between 31 March and 1 April 2001. The then government of Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated in March 2003, handed over Milosevic to the ICTY on 28 June 2001.
Milosevic is on trial for genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and war crimes in Croatia and Kosovo.