(24 Mar 1996) Natural Sound

Hard-line Serbian nationalists have launched a fresh bid for power in Bosnian Serb territory.

The Serbian Radical Party, led by Vojislav Seselj, is opposed to the Dayton peace plan and wants to retake land in Croatia and Bosnia.

This is the face of Serbian extremism.

Five-thousand fanatical Serbian nationalists at a rally in eastern Bosnia, organised by the extremist Serbian Radical Party and its leader Vojislav Seselj.

They are against the Bosnian peace accord, against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadic.

They believe Milosevic betrayed the Serbs when he signed the Dayton accord.

They've launched a campaign to wrest power from Karadic when the Bosnian Serbs vote in elections soon.

Led by extreme Serb nationalist Vojislav Seselj, the party wants to grab land in both Bosnia and Croatia which it says is Serbian.

Seselj is a former ally of the Serbian president when Milosevic needed extremists to stoke up public opinion in favour of the Bosnian war.

But when the Serbs turned to diplomacy in order to get sanctions lifted, Seselj was arrested and jailed.

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