| Situation in Serbia 14:13 - Mar 17 with 4298 views | itfcserbia |
Hi all,
I don't write or raise topics that often and the only previous time I "asked for attention" was when writing an official letter in the name of Serbian branch of Supporters club back in Marcus Evans days.
But now, I feel a personal and human need to write, to try and raise awareness and attention towards the situation in Serbia.
Serbia is at a breaking point, sliding into full-blown dictatorship under Aleksandar Vucic, who is copying the playbooks of Putin and Lukashenko - rigging elections, crushing opposition, controlling the media and using force against his own people. Vucic isn’t just another autocrat - he was Minister of Information in Milosevic's regime where he learned valuable lessons from Milosevic's downfall and is now using them to tighten his grip on power.
Since November, hundreds of thousands of people have been in the streets, in more than 400 cities, towns and villages across Serbia - protesting against corruption and the regime’s total control over institutions and media. On March 15th more than 400.000 people gathered in Belgrade with 100.000 more from other cities - the biggest protest in the history of Serbia.
Protests are lead by students and professors, they carry flowers and pin them to police officers. Against such peaceful protesters in Belgrade city center, in a long and relatively narrow street, as they held 15 minutes of silence - a symbol of dignity and nonviolent protests - Serbian government used an LRAD! Dozens of people were hurt in the issuing stampede. I was there! The Vucic regime’s response to people's nonviolent protest - was a weapon of war.
In days before the protest, the Serbian government that is completely controlled by Vucic as president (which is unconstitutional in Serbian law) has illegally:
- Suspended Parliament and banned all MPs from attending it.
- Canceled all rail and bus transport to Belgrade from multiple cities to prevent people from gathering.
- Interfered with road traffic through multiple unannounced roadworks.
- Forbidden national radio journalists from working and allowed only selected TV journalists to work.
- Forbidden multiple foreign journalists from entering the country.
- Expanded the powers of the Belgrade police through an illicit expedited procedure.
- Offended multiple international governments, including Germany, France, Romania, Croatia etc.
This isn’t just about Serbia - it’s about stopping another dictator before it’s too late. Don’t look away. Try to get informed. Share what’s happening. Stand with us. Thank you.  [Post edited 17 Mar 14:15]
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:17 - Mar 17 with 3636 views | Mullet |
Thank you for letting us know, I had no idea.
I hope you and your family stay safe. Where are the best places to look for people to get informed? |  |
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:25 - Mar 17 with 3560 views | itfcserbia |
| Situation in Serbia on 14:17 - Mar 17 by Mullet |
Thank you for letting us know, I had no idea.
I hope you and your family stay safe. Where are the best places to look for people to get informed? |
Guardian and BBC have started covering more I think with this last protest when realized how big it will be and since government was placing increasingly aggressive statements towards both internal and external politics (Vucic supports Dodik who is trying to dispute Bosnian constitution etc).
Local BBC journalist was standing a dozen yards from me when LRAD was fired, I realized after reading her article. | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:28 - Mar 17 with 3529 views | itfcserbia |
Thanks, a lot of people is being investigated without just cause, simply for trying to propagate to media etc.
Here's one picture that sums it up well - from the protest in Belgrade, "private security" as they are called by the government, standing next to police with a hammer. Police looking the other way. The guardrail you see is in front of the president's palace, btw. They are guarding him.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQXaEYPrF35zk7a9oHqkitXhLH [Post edited 17 Mar 14:29]
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:31 - Mar 17 with 3509 views | soupytwist |
I have an ex-colleague who is Serbian and has lived over here for quite a while. I have seen her sharing information about the protests on LinkedIn for a few weeks now. I watched a couple of DW videos on YouTube over the weekend but did not know about the use of the LRAD and the aftermath.
I don't think we've seen the last of large scale violence in the ex-Yugoslavia (the recent BBC series with Katya Adler was very interesting), I hope you're able to stay safe. |  | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 14:51 - Mar 17 with 3360 views | itfcserbia |
| Situation in Serbia on 14:31 - Mar 17 by soupytwist |
I have an ex-colleague who is Serbian and has lived over here for quite a while. I have seen her sharing information about the protests on LinkedIn for a few weeks now. I watched a couple of DW videos on YouTube over the weekend but did not know about the use of the LRAD and the aftermath.
I don't think we've seen the last of large scale violence in the ex-Yugoslavia (the recent BBC series with Katya Adler was very interesting), I hope you're able to stay safe. |
Give my best to her please. Beside 400+ places across Serbia, protest have been organized in dozens of cities across the world by Serbian expats to raise awareness. Vucic has unfortunately not only repressed Serbia but also aggravated our relations with almost all neighboring countries, especially Bosnia, Croatia, Romania and Kosovo, because of made up threats from outside that enable him to control the media and narrative. | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:58 - Mar 17 with 3315 views | bluejacko |
Good luck and try to be safe👍 |  | | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 15:16 - Mar 17 with 3198 views | blueasfook |
Sounds like another Putin puppet. Good luck to the people of Serbia. I hope your situation improves. |  |
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| Situation in Serbia on 15:20 - Mar 17 with 3217 views | N2_Blue |
| Situation in Serbia on 14:17 - Mar 17 by Mullet |
Thank you for letting us know, I had no idea.
I hope you and your family stay safe. Where are the best places to look for people to get informed? |
Me niether, and it begs the question why is this not being covered more widely by British media if accurate to the extent ITFC serbia states, and i see no reason why it should not be??
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Apparently it is....but have to admit its somehow bypassed me. I would have expected it to be much more headline news [Post edited 17 Mar 15:22]
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| Situation in Serbia on 15:30 - Mar 17 with 3156 views | Churchman |
Like others this situation has completely passed me by. Thank you for posting. Stay safe and please keep us informed of what is happening there.
It sounds right out of Putin’s play book and in line with the rise of authoritarian regimes. Awful and very depressing. |  | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 17:58 - Mar 17 with 2962 views | RIPbobby |
Sorry to hear this friend. Stand up for yourselves and stick together. I hope you get the peace that Bangladesh got recently after 1600 of their protestors were massacred by a similar regime. |  | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 18:23 - Mar 17 with 2881 views | itfcserbia |
| Situation in Serbia on 15:20 - Mar 17 by N2_Blue |
Me niether, and it begs the question why is this not being covered more widely by British media if accurate to the extent ITFC serbia states, and i see no reason why it should not be??
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Apparently it is....but have to admit its somehow bypassed me. I would have expected it to be much more headline news [Post edited 17 Mar 15:22]
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For some reason, Western media is not covering this very much. At least not until now the biggest protest in the history of Serbia and the latest incident.
Latest news are that Earshot NGO confirmed a type of weapon used:
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| Situation in Serbia on 18:46 - Mar 17 with 2848 views | bluejacko |
| Situation in Serbia on 15:30 - Mar 17 by Churchman |
Like others this situation has completely passed me by. Thank you for posting. Stay safe and please keep us informed of what is happening there.
It sounds right out of Putin’s play book and in line with the rise of authoritarian regimes. Awful and very depressing. |
It’s happening all over Serbia ,Hungary,Slovakia and Georgia all had/ having demos against Pootins puppets! | | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 18:53 - Mar 17 with 2831 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
Thank you for informing us, and for being one of those brave enough to defend freedom for your nation at risk to yourself. | | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 19:48 - Mar 17 with 2769 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I was totally unaware so thank you for bringing it to our attention. I was unaware what an LRAD is so looked it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device
I hope the peaceful protests continue and have the desired effect. Power to the people! Stay safe as best you can, though. |  |
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| Situation in Serbia on 21:57 - Mar 17 with 2628 views | itfcserbia |
| Situation in Serbia on 18:46 - Mar 17 by bluejacko |
It’s happening all over Serbia ,Hungary,Slovakia and Georgia all had/ having demos against Pootins puppets! |
Sadly, they now all have Trump's support as well as he's looking to weaken the European Union. | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 08:59 - Mar 18 with 2439 views | soupytwist |
| Situation in Serbia on 18:23 - Mar 17 by itfcserbia |
For some reason, Western media is not covering this very much. At least not until now the biggest protest in the history of Serbia and the latest incident.
Latest news are that Earshot NGO confirmed a type of weapon used:
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Some of the videos posted in replies to that are quite disturbing. That must have been terrifying for the people there. | | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 09:35 - Mar 18 with 2377 views | itfcserbia |
| Situation in Serbia on 08:59 - Mar 18 by soupytwist |
Some of the videos posted in replies to that are quite disturbing. That must have been terrifying for the people there. |
It was like a train or a plane ascending to the street. You can see clearly in the videos that it's not a "panic flee", it's a "get out of the way" flee. And then people looking around for what actually happened, there is nothing there. Daily Mail covered it now as well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14509471/military-grade-sonic-weapon-us | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:01 - Mar 19 with 2046 views | itfcserbia |
News starting to spread around the world.
Appreciate this is far from hottest topics in the world unfortunately but is something that has been ignored by mass media far too long while small group of people continue to destroy the reputation of Serbia. Spread the word, be informed. Thank you. | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 14:16 - Mar 19 with 1994 views | Churchman |
| Situation in Serbia on 14:01 - Mar 19 by itfcserbia |
News starting to spread around the world.
Appreciate this is far from hottest topics in the world unfortunately but is something that has been ignored by mass media far too long while small group of people continue to destroy the reputation of Serbia. Spread the word, be informed. Thank you. |
Do keep us informed. This sort of thing should not be ‘under the radar’. | | | |
| Situation in Serbia on 08:57 - Mar 20 with 1712 views | itfcserbia |
| Situation in Serbia on 14:16 - Mar 19 by Churchman |
Do keep us informed. This sort of thing should not be ‘under the radar’. |
The most hypocritical thing from EU and NATO is their officials are meeting with Vucic as if nothing is going on and they are openly ignoring the situation. Not commenting it at all. EU has become a complete farce. | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 09:17 - Mar 20 with 1671 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Situation in Serbia on 08:57 - Mar 20 by itfcserbia |
The most hypocritical thing from EU and NATO is their officials are meeting with Vucic as if nothing is going on and they are openly ignoring the situation. Not commenting it at all. EU has become a complete farce. |
There was a big bit about this in The Sun recently.
Re The EU - don't rely on those pigs in the trough!
Although I'm a relatively reluctant remainer, I have no time for EU parliament and all those who sail in it. |  |
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| Situation in Serbia on 10:44 - Mar 20 with 1601 views | itfcserbia |
In the meantime, encouraged by every meeting with foreign officials behind closed doors of course, Vucic announced police will be sent to universities to "clear out the students and professors from the educational institutions they are occupying". This wasn't even done by Milosevic. Even during his worst years of repression, universities still remained out of reach by Milosevic. But Vucic "learned his lessons" while being in that government. | |
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| Situation in Serbia on 10:17 - Mar 21 with 1324 views | itfcserbia |
New evidence appearing every day.
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