(29 May 2011)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of police charging across road
2. Youth throwing stone, police officer chasing after him
3. Protesters jeering at police
4. Youth throwing stone, priest trying to calm him and others down
5. Wide tracking shot of protest
6. Riot police in street
7. Various of protesters
8. High wide of protesters
9. Riot police filing out into street
10. Crowd of protesters
11. Riot police charging at protesters, includes zoom of officers striking a protester with their batons
12. Medium of riot police on road
13. Official vehicles on road
14. Various of riot police in truck
++NIGHT SHOTS++
15. Wide pan of riot police driving on street
16. Medium of police protecting parliament building
17. Pan of police on horses
18. Various of police van with arrested demonstrators ++FIRST SHOT IS MUTE
19. Concrete bollard in middle of street
20. Smashed windows on subway exit
21. Riot police seen through the smashed windows
++DAY SHOTS++
22. Various of police arresting protesters outside US embassy
STORYLINE:
Protesters throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Sunday night, after several thousand supporters of jailed war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside the parliament building to demand his release.
Rioters overturned rubbish bins, broke traffic lights and set off firecrackers during the demonstrations.
Cordons of riot police tried to block their advances and skirmishes took place in several locations in the centre of the capital.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
The clashes began after a rally that drew at least 7-thousand demonstrators, many singing nationalist songs and carrying banners honouring Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander.
Some chanted right-wing slogans and a few gave Nazi salutes.
The demonstrators, who consider Mladic a hero, said that Serbia should not hand him over to the United Nations war crimes court in The Hague.
Demonstrators demanded the removal of Serbia's pro-Western President Boris Tadic, who ordered Mladic's arrest.
Supporters of the extreme nationalist Radical Party were bussed in to attend the rally.
Right-wing extremists and hooligan groups also urged followers to appear in large numbers.
More than 3-thousand riot police were deployed around government buildings and Western embassies, fearing that the demonstration could turn violent.
Earlier in the day a group of protesters was detained near the US Embassy.
Nationalists are furious that the pro-Western government apprehended Mladic on Thursday after nearly 16 years on the run.
The 69-year-old former general was caught at a relative's home in a northern Serbian village.
The UN tribunal charged Mladic with genocide in 1995, accusing him of orchestrating the massacre of 8-thousand Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and other war crimes during the Bosnian war between 1992 and 1995.
Mladic's arrest is considered critical to Serbia's efforts to join the European Union and to reconciliation in the region after a series of ethnic wars during the 1990s.
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