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Nationalists interrupt LSV rally in Sombor 18 March 2008
Nenad Čanak (FoNet, archive)

Nenad Čanak accused Vojislav Koštunica of supporting organized extremist groups that provoke incidents across Serbia.

The leader of the League of Vojvodina Social Democrats (LSV) made the comments after an LSV rally last night in Sombor was broken up by a group of some 20 young men, dressed in black tops bearing the message “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia”.

They stood with their backs to the crowd and the speakers for around 20 minutes with Serbian flags and three fingers raised, after which they left the meeting.

LSV representatives said that it was the same group that, after the unilateral Kosovo independence declaration, had handed out free bread in front of an Albanian bakery in Sombor, so that the citizens would not buy from the local Albanians.

Čanak said that on April 24, 1992, members of the “Vukašin Šoškoćanin” paramilitary organization headed by “chetnik commander" Jovo Ostojić had interrupted an LSV rally in Sombor.

He claimed that they had then been armed with automatic weapons and bombs, and had been “deployed” from a balcony by Socialistic Party of Serbia (SPS) official Stojan Berber.

Čanak said that they were “manipulated kids” that outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica was trying to “transform into cannon fodder,” and he demanded that the police investigate the group.