'Go home Nazi scum,' Serb hardliners tell BidenSerb ultra-nationalist lawmakers held up insulting signs in parliament Wednesday as US Vice President Joe Biden This article is about the United States Senator from Delaware, for other uses of the name, see Biden. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. , considered a strong backer of Kosovo independence, arrived in Belgrade. "Biden, you Nazi scum, go home," said the posters brandished by opposition Radical Party deputies during the live national broadcast of a parliament sitting which coincided with the start of Biden's visit. The Radicals, who occupy around a fifth of places in the 250-seat assembly, then pasted the signs which also labelled Biden a "fascist (jargon) fascist - Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant "fascistic" seems to have been preferred at MIT. " on a notice board and hallway. They all appeared in parliament dressed in T-shirts bearing the image of the party's president, Vojislav Seselj, who is currently on trial for war crimes before a UN tribunal in The Hague. Seselj's acting leader Dragan Todorovic described Biden's visit as "the saddest day in Serbia's history." The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. represented "all bad things that have struck the Serbian people, and whose inspirer was for the large part Biden," Todorovic was as quoted as saying by Tanjug news agency. Nationalist Serbs are deeply sceptical of Biden's visit, which the US vice president said was part of the Obama administration's bid to develop "healthy" relations with the former pariah state. US warplanes took part in NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia to end a violent crackdown crack·down n. An act or example of forceful regulation, repression, or restraint: a crackdown on crime. Noun 1. on separatist sep·a·ra·tist n. 1. One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist. 2. Kosovo Albanian rebels by forces loyal to late autocratic president Slobodan Milosevic. The 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict Kosovo conflict (1998–99) Ethnic war in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. In 1989 the Serbian president, Slobodan Miloševic, abrogated the constitutional autonomy of Kosovo. killed several thousand people and saw hundreds of thousands flee the disputed territory. Most victims were ethnic Albanians. Serb authorities have imposed stringent security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security for Biden's visit, part of a landmark tour of the Balkan region also taking in Bosnia and Kosovo. Kosovo is an ethnic Albanian-majority territory whose ethnic Albanian-dominated parliament seceded from Serbia in February 2008 and was promptly recognised by the United States. Although Belgrade's pro-Western government is keen to improve ties with Washington, it insists it will never recognise the independence of Kosovo, which many Serbs see as their historic heartland. 
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