My two cents about the developments and protests in Serbia for the main news @tagesschau.bsky.social in Germany youtu.be/0EIzevCRXYU?...

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Novi Sad 🖤

After 16 days and more than 400km by foot, students from Novi Pazar have arrived in Novi Sad tonight ❤️

Unser Gast @alekstomanic.bsky.social erzählt, wie sie vor 25 Jahren mit der Otpor!-Bewegung Milošević stürzte – und wir sprechen darüber, warum die Menschen 25 Jahre später wieder gegen einen Autokraten auf die Straße gehen müssen. ballaballa-balkan.de/episode/gesc...

Und wieder gibt es Neues vom @ballaballa-balkan.bsky.social ! 25 Jahre sind seit dem Sturz Miloševićs vergangen. Und wieder wird in Serbien gegen ein autoritäres Regime demonstriert. Mit @alekstomanic.bsky.social sprechen wir über Parallelen, Unterschiede und verpasste Chancen

Ich durfte endlich mal wieder ausführlich "von früher" erzählen ✊🥹 Danke Jungs! Vielen Dank für die Einladung 💙

Wake up, Serbia! Pumpaj: The Student Uprising youtu.be/h3t4EiRYzHM?si… by Raül Gallego Abellán

La politóloga y economista Aleksandra Tomanic indica por WhatsApp desde Serbia: “Esto [las imputaciones] es demasiado poco y llega demasiado tarde. Apenas hay altos cargos en la cárcel, mientras que hay decenas de estudiantes en prisión, por manifestarse. ... 🧵

Auf die Frage, ob die EU Serbien verloren hat, antwortet die Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin Aleksandra Tomanić: "Man muss die Frage anders stellen. Die Ereignisse in Serbien zeigen nämlich, dass sich die EU selbst verloren hat. … 🧵

„Mit dieser Art von Beitrittspolitik macht Europa sich unglaubwürdig und trampelt auf seinen eigenen Werten herum. Aleksandar Vucic zeigt sein wahres Gesicht. Europa sollte genau hinschauen.“ Endlich klare Worte.

The house detention of Luka has been prolonged from 30 to 60 days. He has done nothing wrong, but is still being treated like a criminal. Meanwhile people beating up or driving into students get amnestied by the president.

Das ganze war extrem demütigend und entwürdigend. Die Anweisungen die Blume abzunehmen kam von der deutschen Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner.

Today should only be about remembering and commemorating, united by respect and pain, in silence. #11July #SrebrenicaGenocide #Stotenema

Luka, a student from Zrenjanin, heavily beaten by police, while following their orders with his hands up. After several operations, he was handcuffed to his hospital bed in Belgrade like a criminal. Everything is upside-down in Serbia. Their hands are getting bloodier every day.

Huge wave of arrests today in Serbia

Across Serbia, citizens are blocking streets. They are committed to stay. Civil disobedience in the whole country. Novi Sad, Smederevo, Niš, Čačak, Užice, Zrenjanin .... and here you can see all the different locations in Belgrade 👇

Serbia today. Still demanding justice for 16 dead of Novi Sad

Despite the multiannual, immense resistance of citizens across the country, the expert community, civil society, locals and the majority of the opposition, the European Commission today decided to include the controversal Jadar lithium mining project to its strategic projects. 🧵

Just a random Friday afternoon in Belgrade

Davor Stefanović, one of the 6 political prisoners from Novi Sad, was beaten up in prison. He was beaten on Saturday, and his lawyer was informed only yesterday. He has trouble breathing, but was still not kept in hospital, but sent back to prison.

Marija Vasic is fainting and was taken to Belgrad to a prison hospital n1info.rs/vesti/marija...

Marija Vasic, the illegally imprisoned teacher from Novi Sad, is today entering the third day of her full hunger strike. She did not drink anything. She is entering a very dangerous phase. A human can survive around 3 days without drinking.

"And I came here today to assure ~YOU~ of my personal engagement..." "Dear Aleksandar" appears twice. Citizens or the month-long protests for the core of political criteria not mentioned once.

Once. Now. Forever.

6 months. 16 dead. 0 responsible. 🖤 Novi Sad, 1.11.2024 - 1.5.2025

Novi Sad - 6 months after the corruption-based killing of 16 people, police is trying to break the students blockade today, using excessive force towards peaceful citizens who don‘t give up demanding justice and accountability

How does systemic corruption look like? Serbia edition: Only in the past few days, a newly renovated roof of almost 1 t came down in a - luckily empty - classroom; a truck sank into asphalt during heavy rain at the highway; a pedestrian gangway cracked, even before put into operation; and so on ....

Happy Easter and while spending the day with family and friends, let’s not forget that in Serbia there are political prisoners, while 6 other young people are in exile, as they face prison in case they return.

Der @weltspiegel.bsky.social Podcast widmet seine Aufmerksamkeit diese Woche den Protesten in Serbien ✊⛽️ Die zweite Episodenhälfte durfte ich ausfüllen 🙂

Belgrade Saturday preparations

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The corruption-induced tragedy of Novi Sad now counts 16 victims. Vukašin, a high-school graduate who had terrible injuries, died today. 🖤💔

Guter Überblick was letzten Samstag in Belgrad passiert ist

SWR Kultur Podcast mit @alekstomanic.bsky.social @krstorevic.bsky.social und mir über die Proteste in Serbien www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/foru...

Radioempfehlung! Hier geben @alekstomanic.bsky.social und @fbieber.bsky.social in einem 43-minütigen Talk eine sehr gute Übersicht zu den Protesten Serbien und den möglichen Folgen für die Region. Ach, und meine Wenigkeit ist auch dabei. www.swr.de/swrkultur/le...

Kočani North Macedonia, Cetinje Montenegro, Novi Sad Serbia, Jablanica Bosnia-Herzegovina 💔 all mourning their deads because of corruption and disfunctional institutions. This list is not complete, covering only the past 6 months. Captured states being replaced with failed ones.

The sound of silence. Of hundreds of thousands of people. Until it was ended too early by violence of those that don't know anything else.

It is supposed to start only at 4pm 😁⛽️

An it's only Friday... But Niš just arrived to Belgrade ❤️⛽️

The former deputy head of the OSCE mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, subsequently posted to Brussels, was outed as an intelligence operative by Belgium and told to leave the country. The OSCE is now considering appointing him chief of mission in Serbia, as per this report. Can't make this up.

SEE Mobility Fair scheduled to take place in April in Belgrade is cancelled:

Police raid on 4 NGOs in Belgrade. Tabloids published that information even before police arrived to premises. Full support and solidarity with CRTA, Trag foundation, Civic initiatives (gradjanske) and the Center for practical policies.

Zrenjanin ✊❤️

Novi Sad je rekao! Tonight again massive protests in #NoviSad, #Serbia, after an assault on #students, in which a female student of Art was gravely injured by four members of #Vučić party.

Belgrade tonight, shine bright like a diamond

Vukovar tomorrow in solidarity with Serbia. This is huge ❤️

Definitely not a storm in a teacup. Join us on Tuesday to hear why, but the event is in German

Am 28.1. um 17.00 diskutieren @alekstomanic.bsky.social & ich mit Michael Martens ( @faznet.bsky.social) über die Studentenproteste in Serbien @biepag.bsky.social. Anmeldung über folgendes Link 👇 www.sogde.org/de/formulare...

53.000-55.000 citizens came together last night in Belgrade in front, but basically all around the captured public service broadcaster, at sub-zero temperatures. When enough really is becoming enough.