BELGRADE: POLICE PROTEST ENDS PEACEFULLY

BELGRADE, Oct 24 (Hina) - Around 2,000 employees of the Serbian interior ministry and several hundred citizens rallied in Belgrade's central square on Friday to support police general Sreten Lukic, recently indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for war crimes in Kosovo in 1999. #L# The rally was attended by a number of Serbian police officials, but not by Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic. The president the Vojvodina parliament, Nenad Canak, the only politician to attend the gathering, was met with catcalls and shouts "Ustasha". The protesters, mostly members of the police from all parts of Serbia and police academy cadets, carried banners saying "We are all Lukic" and "We won't give up on you, brother!". Speakers at the rally, which started at 4 pm and ended after less than an hour, said they were not against the Hague tribunal, but that Lukic had been indicted unjustly. Several days ago, the tribunal unsealed indictments against generals of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro and the Serbian Interior Ministry, Nebojsa Pavkovic, Vladimir Lazarevic, Vlastimir Djordjevic and Sreten Lukic. (hina) rml sb