{"id":1056,"date":"2020-07-09T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:44:41","slug":"protests-in-serbia-people-are-sick-and-tired-of-such-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/protests-in-serbia-people-are-sick-and-tired-of-such-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Serbia: &#8220;People are sick and tired of such injustice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Protest-Rupena001-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marko Rupena \/ Kamerades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>For two days in a row Serbian citizens have been protesting against their government and the new anti-pandemic measures the president had announced. Both on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon the protests started peacefully, only to turn into a havoc of protester-police clashes and police brutality as the night fell. The alt-right is trying claim the lead and steer the riots according to their agenda. Meanwhile, some left wing organizations see the demonstrations as\u00a0a spontaneous expression of people\u2019s justifiable dissatisfaction with the government and long accumulated anger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations were triggered by the way the president of Serbia had addressed the citizens at a press conference he had held Tuesday afternoon. Namely, he announced a decision to reintroduce a curfew in the capital over the weekend to come and possibly also pronounce a new \u201cround\u201d of state of emergency. He also blamed the citizens directly for the heavy coronavirus outburst Serbia has been struggling with during the last few weeks, i.e. since the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the press conference citizens took to the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologist Sarita Brada\u0161 believes that the spontaneous protest represented the citizens\u2019 reaction to the fact that the president accused them for the acute crisis: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that the [people] reacted that much against the announced curfew. They were provoked by the fact that the authorities held them accountable, while it was obvious that the state is, in fact, responsible for the current situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that from the point of view of social psychology, the government managed the coronavirus crisis terribly. Namely, the authorities provided the population with insufficient and contradictory information. This, according to her, typically leads people to assess the dangers they face either far too dramatically, or to dismiss them \u2013 or revert to both, intermittently or simultaneously. The resulting cognitive dissonance disables cold reasoning and paves the way for purely emotional reactions. In the end the citizens felt disoriented, distressed, lost any trust they still had in the authorities, and gave in to justifiable rage.<\/p>\n<p>Brada\u0161 also pointed out that the persons in political power have much better access to medical prevention and medical care in relation to coronavirus, while the general public is left wanting since the public healthcare system is overburdened and faces collapse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People are sick and tired of such injustice, Brada\u0161 concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1057\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1057\" style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/foto-jovanovic-nemanja-_NMN8123-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Nemanja Jovanovi\u0107 \/ Kamerades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Alt-right in protest<\/h4>\n<p>On the first night of the protests, around 10 p.m., a group of demonstrators separated from the crowd and stormed the Home of the National Assembly of Serbia. They spent some fifteen minutes there before the police intervened and threw them out. The security door was knocked down, but no major damage was done. A former MP of the alt-right Dveri party, Sr\u0111an Nogo, entered the Assembly together with the protesters and (unsuccessfully) tried to impose himself as the leader of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>On several occasions lately Nogo appeared as a leader of right-wing protests. He is otherwise known for his extreme right-wing and extremely anti-immigrant views, and for spreading 5G conspiracy theories. He used to be a member of the extreme right-wing Dveri party, from which he was expelled in 2019, and an MP since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days earlier, more precisely July 2nd, together with members of an ultra-right group called No Surrender of Kosovo and Metohija, Nogo tried to take over a students\u2019 protest held at the same location. The students held a rally protesting announcement that they were going to be evicted from students\u2019 dormitories due to epidemiological risks. During that protest, two female students and activists of the Joint Action Roof Over Your Head called for the removal of right-wing symbols from the protest. Since then, they have both suffered daily insults and numerous threats of sexual and other violence.<\/p>\n<h4>Preliminary reactions of activists and leftist organisations<\/h4>\n<p>Several activist and leftist organisations, including Don\u2019t let Belgrade d(r)own (NDMBG), the Socialdemocratic union (SDU), Joint Action Roof over Your Head, Marx21, and others, issued public statements in which they advocate a view of the protests as being a spontaneous expression of people\u2019s justifiable dissatisfaction with the government and long accumulated anger.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of NDMBG have so far been present at the protests, reporting on it through live footage via Facebook. NDMBG activist Radomir Lazovi\u0107, stated for Ma\u0161ina:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We do not take part in the protest\u2019s organizing, or call for mass gatherings. People gathered spontaneously, and we just covered it through our communication channels. Nevertheless, we do support the dissatisfaction which citizens express within the limits of our capabilities.\u00a0It is clear that the criminals in political power sacrificed the lives of our fellow citizens (i.e. eased the coronavirus related measures, editorial remark.) to hold the elections. The medical system collapsed, and the only point of the newly introduced measures is to cover-up the government\u2019s incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Our initiative will fight this dictatorship with all available means. We need to be cautious and put citizens\u2019 health first, which is exactly why we don\u2019t call for mass gatherings. Still, we will oppose the dictatorship through civil disobedience, small scale activities, petitions, law suits, dialogues, talks, each day and everywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President of the Socialdemocratic Union (SDU), Ivan Zlati\u0107, a party hoping to succesfully gather several existing left wing organisations under its wing, also stated that he believed the protest to primarily be a spontaneous erruption of accumulated rage. He said that SDU will observe the happenings closely, adding that all well-meaning political actors and organisations with an emancipatory agenda must, naturally, stand against the police and state violence which has obviously \u201egone too far\u201c.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jelena-zoric.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1059 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jelena-zoric.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jelena-zoric.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jelena-zoric-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jelena-zoric-768x509.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journalist Jelena Zori\u0107 reporting from the protest as teargas fills the air; Screenshot from N1 report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Media coverage of the protest<\/h4>\n<p>Many people commented that the national broadcasting service, RTS, failed to provide any information whatsoever on the dramatic events in Belgrade. Thousands of people on the streets, an intrusion into the parliament, clouds of tear gas, fierce clashes between police and demonstrators, dozens of injured, police vehicles set on fire \u2013 and all that in front of RTS\u2019s central studio \u2013 were not enough for this television to report on the events in time.<\/p>\n<p>Printed editions of the pro-regime media either ignore the protests entirely or demonize dissatisfied citizens. This includes media such as the Informer, Ve\u010dernji novosti, Kurir and Srpski Telegraf, all of which have a large audience.<\/p>\n<p>The media heroes of the protest are female journalists from the N1 informative platform.<\/p>\n<p>They were present at the eye of the storm, inspiring awe, and setting an example for professional reporting. From the very beginning of the protest they stood in the front lines, together with the protesters, shedding light on what was happening in front of and behind the police cordons; they swallowed tear gas together with the people and explained ways to fight its effects, explained police field formations and the protesters\u2019 movement and talked without hesitation about police brutality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two days in a row Serbian citizens have been protesting against their government and the new anti-pandemic measures the president had announced. Both on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon the protests started peacefully, only to turn into a havoc of protester-police clashes and police brutality as the night fell. The alt-right is trying claim the lead and steer the riots according to their agenda. 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