10 years of Students’ protests in Serbia
Students’ union of Serbia is going to prepare manifestation to mark the 10 years since the students’ and citizens’ protest 96’/97. What they have planned is: Exibition of photos from the protests, 17th of November in SKC, a discussion panel on 22nd of November at the Philosophical Faculty with people who organized the protests ten years ago, and a concert after that.
After the concert a protest walk will be organized, probably only to mark the memory of those days.
But than, who knows – maybe we will need a real protest after all.
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A protest once and a while would be nice. It’s good for the health and socialization with other people, as well as an escape from the everyday life boredom. Hell, in such gatherings I always met some nice girls…
For real, Greeks mark every year on the 17th November the student riots of 1973 against the dictatorship of the junta by rioting. it wouldn’t be bad for us to have the same, hold demonstrations just as a reminder to anyone that hads any ambitions of becoming a dictator (I’m talking to you mr. Nikolic you damn wadical).
One of the things holding the country back is a sense of passive fatality in the face of blatant corruption, cheating and lies from politicians.
A friend once told me about a local (Belgrade) politician who had stolen 1m euros by siphoning off development funds.
“We’ll if you can prove it, go to the papers and expose him!” I said.
“Where do you think I read about it?” he replied.
“So this was reported in the papers and he I still in office? How can he survive?” I said.
“Srbija Brate!”* he replied.
* For those not familiar with Serbia, this phrase which literally means “(It is) Serbia, brother!”
It is used after remarking on something bad in Serbia to mean something like “Well that’s Serbia for you”.
People are so emotionally exhausted they don’t even have any anger left for outrage at how they are ripped off and abused by their political masters.
I hope that outrage and energy comes back and makes a stand because as long as everything in weighed down by corruption, there will be little significant progress for Serbia.
Well, thanks Victor, I am looking forward to this exhibition and the discussion.
I agree with Cvjijus that its good to protest – and there are always ‘interesting’ people to be met who one may get to know a little better.
But lets not forget that the philsophy faculty students are in the middle of a protest themselves – protesting the increasing cost of attending the faculty.
I think that students should also protest the arbitrary way that marks are awarded by professors. Or more precisely the student representatives should have a greater say in teaching standards. In Serbia there is far too big a difference between easy and hard marking professors. One might think that this balances out in the end but the tendancy is for entire faculties (let alone departments) to consist mostly of one type or the other.