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Farewell rally for ultranationalist war crime suspect

(23 Feb 2003) 1. Various of beginning of rally 2. Vojislav Seselj coming up on stage through crowd 3. Seselj on stage waving to supporters 4. Close up Seselj in tears 5. Cutaway crowd 6. Seselj addressing crowd from stage 7. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Vojislav Seselj, war crimes suspect: "Tomorrow I'm going on a somewhat longer business trip. I am going to win because I've always won in my life. I ask forgiveness from the Serbian people because I didn't take down this government first and I'm sorry that I'm leaving you under the tyranny under the criminal Djindjic's regime. I am going to the Hague to represent more than 10,000 volunteers of the Serbian radical party." 8. Various of march through Belgrade 9. Seselj walking with crowd 10. Various crowds 11. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Vojislav Seselj, war crimes suspect "I feel fine and I'm going there to win. As you can see the whole of Serbia is behind me." 12. Various crowds walking with Seselj 13. Various thousands walking down streets of Belgrade STORYLINE: Thousands of Serb nationalists chanted in defiance in downtown Belgrade on Sunday at a farewell rally for their leader Vojislav Seselj on the eve of his planned surrender to the UN war crimes court. Seselj, an ally of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, told the crowd of more than 10,000 supporters that he was ready to face the international court in The Hague, Netherlands. Amid nationalist euphoria, with men wearing traditional Serb caps and women crying openly, Seselj asked his followers to remain committed to Serb nationalist goals and not to allow the handover of top Serb suspects - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and army commander Ratko Mladic - to The Hague court. The Hague court indicted Seselj for atrocities committed by his volunteers during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. Seselj, 48, has dismissed the U.N. charges and vowed to prove his innocence. Braving freezing temperatures in a nationalist bravado, Seselj's supporters encouraged their leader to fight the U.N. court that many here still regard as anti-Serb. Several posters of Milosevic were also visible amid the blue flags of Seselj's Radical Party. No incidents were reported during the rally. Seselj became an unofficial leader of Serbia's nationalists after Milosevic was extradited to The Hague court in 2001, where he is being tried for war crimes and genocide. Last year, Seselj - backed by Milosevic from his prison cell at The Hague - won about one million votes at a failed presidential election, signaling that nationalists still enjoy considerable support in Serbia, more than two years after Milosevic was ousted from power by a pro-Western coalition. Yugoslavia was recently renamed to Serbia and Montenegro after its two republics. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...