BELGRADE -- Several student and youth organizations held a protest rally in Belgrade on Monday, Beta reported.
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They dubbed their protest, "No Alternative to Europe", starting from in front of the Faculty of Philosophy one minute before noon.
Later, the protesters walked to the government building in Nemanjina Street, where they left their demands for the prime minister at the reception desk.
The protesters demanded that Koštunica facilitate the unblocking of institutions, the signing of the agreement on cooperation with the EU and the arrest of the remaining Hague tribunal fugitives, as the conditions for the continuation of Serbia's European integration.
After their attempt to be received by Koštunica, the deputy prime minister or any other minister failed, the protesters dispersed peacefully. They announced a new protest for next week, unless their demands were met.
The Ministry of Sport and Youth supported the student protest, saying that it represented the will of the young to give active support to a European Serbia and to be the ones to carry out the changes that will take Serbia to the EU.
However, the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Youth described the protest as politically tainted and added that "fliers were handed out and the banner of the Liberal Democratic Party was carried" during the rally.
"Students also showed their responsibility and seriousness by not attending this protest and thereby demonstrated their clear position toward those who are hiding behind them and who wish to abuse them," said a statement.
The statement added that it was irresponsible to protest because of "the announced visa liberalization and student scholarships, while the EU is deploying a mission with the aim of breaking up Serbia."
thank you, you students who have found a public voice, at last. through the generations, students have often (not always) served as a kind of conscience and cutting edge -- for my generation it was the late 60s/early 70s anti vietnam war demonstrations. but there are many such examples worldwide, and throughout at least this century, and they don't need a soros or anyone else to fund them or approve of their actions. it is amazing what poor and struggling students can accomplish when given the right set of circumstances...
i have long asked, IMplored the bright young students of blgd to spk up against nationalism and their less-than-respectable govt leadership, and i salute you guys and gals. pls keep up the pressure.
i do feel quite srongly, however, that you need to make a clean breAk with yr govt. leaders, and make peace with newly emerging independent kosovo/a. i know that this is not a hugely popular position inside serbia, but it is a necessary one for any meaningful progress to ensue. please ignore the ubiquitous calls for nationalistic solidarity, and strike a note for integrity, democracy and peace.
roberto from frisco
(robert0, 13 February 2008 06:47)
Although I am not a B92 moderator, I'm 100% certain by your comment that you will not post anything in the future is pure malarchy.
Moving forward, with regard to the student's protest, they need to be patient, as brmusila stated. They need to recognize that all that they watch on the media is NOT true & go with what their gut feeling is. In other words be a leader & not a follower. READ YOUR HISTORY & RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF KOSOVO TO THE SERBIANS!!
Oh right the bogeyman Soros himself returns to topic - except this Serbian student demonstration owes much more to the internal political situation than to the supposed machinations of an individual.
Still why believe a fact when you can choose what to belive, after all its easier that way...
(bganon, 13 February 2008 01:47)
For moderator.
I realy thought that B92 is an independent non biest news agency. I sent some comments today and were not posted which is a bit disapointing but never mind as i never will do it in the future.
Cheers
There are young serbs that see their country prosperous in EU and in PEACE with their neighbors
and
there is bm-rusila &Co that see them as criminals.
Maybe because they haven’t destroyed anything but want to build peace and prosperity?
(ben, 12 February 2008 17:36)
All the info we are fed on B92 first goes through the Soros filter. The students aren't the only ones that cannot think for themselves.
(vrnjak, 12 February 2008 17:02)
"and funded by the LDP and soros....nice education system when they cant think for them selves...."
Hilarious comment, with the typical poor English as one can expect in Serb forums.
How much "funds" does a protest like that need? This Serb Soros theory is really getting more and more funny every year that goes by. Serb nationalists are perfectly willing to post in the Serbian edition of Playboy or sell adverts for USA on the internet. The biggest threat to Serbia is Serbs themselves.
(Zoran, 12 February 2008 16:41)
Even though I always support students and their rights, this time I cannot give them support. I understand that they are very young and that majority of them if not all of them have never visited Kosovo and Metohija or have a bad perception of the country’s history .What is our country trying to do now is to preserve a country as a whole that our ancestors lost their lives. I understand that they want better life but that is not the reason to give up on something that someone else died for.
Fortunately this group of only 1000 students shows that they do not make majority and cannot represent the entire number of the students. Besides, democracy is the will of the majority and I see no majority over here to impose conditions to government. It is most likely that they were really organised by some political party and most likely to be by the LDP indeed. However, I am sure that government will take the political deal into consideration later on, but not now because that political deal offered by the EU cannot be priority now. So, dear students show a bit of patience and maturity. You should be asking government for referendum on future integration in the EU and see for once how many people actually do support integrations after the EU’s nasty role in dismembering of our country. I don’t want minority to cause some social riots by thinking that those who wants EU integrations make majority. So, referendum will show us the real mood of the citizens towards the integrations within EU.
(bmrusila, 12 February 2008 11:14)
Why don't serb students protest what is happening to their own people for the last nine years. Tadic should refrain from inciting thest marches in order to break Kostunica.
In Pejë 11 February 2008
Criminal fire set inside the house of a Serbian IDP in Pejë/Peć town. Yesterday Sunday afternoon at around 15:00, the fire brigade intervened to put out a fire that caused considerable damages to the house of Mr. Radule Labović, currently displaced in Serbia proper. The house was also vandalized. This incident follows another criminal fire inside the house of Ms. Lubica Mušikić last Tuesday in the same neighborhood where only very few Serbian families have returned.
(Jim, 12 February 2008 10:02)
Even though I always support students and their rights, this time I cannot give them support. I understand that they are very young and that majority of them if not all of them have never visited Kosovo and Metohija or have a bad perception of the country’s history .What is our country trying to do now is to preserve a country as a whole that our ancestors lost their lives. I understand that they want better life but that is not the reason to give up on something that someone else died for.
Fortunately this group of only 1000 students shows that they do not make majority and cannot represent the entire number of the students. Besides, democracy is the will of the majority and I see no majority over here to impose conditions to government. It is most likely that they were really organised by some political party and most likely to be by the LDP indeed. However, I am sure that government will take the political deal into consideration later on, but not now because that political deal offered by the EU cannot be priority now. So, dear students show a bit of patience and maturity. You should be asking government for referendum on future integration in the EU and see for once how many people actually do support integrations after the EU’s nasty role in dismembering of our country. I don’t want minority to cause some social riots by thinking that those who wants EU integrations make majority. So, referendum will show us the real mood of the citizens towards the integrations within EU.
(bmrusila, 12 February 2008 11:14)
Why don't serb students protest what is happening to their own people for the last nine years. Tadic should refrain from inciting thest marches in order to break Kostunica.
In Pejë 11 February 2008
Criminal fire set inside the house of a Serbian IDP in Pejë/Peć town. Yesterday Sunday afternoon at around 15:00, the fire brigade intervened to put out a fire that caused considerable damages to the house of Mr. Radule Labović, currently displaced in Serbia proper. The house was also vandalized. This incident follows another criminal fire inside the house of Ms. Lubica Mušikić last Tuesday in the same neighborhood where only very few Serbian families have returned.
(Jim, 12 February 2008 10:02)
"and funded by the LDP and soros....nice education system when they cant think for them selves...."
Hilarious comment, with the typical poor English as one can expect in Serb forums.
How much "funds" does a protest like that need? This Serb Soros theory is really getting more and more funny every year that goes by. Serb nationalists are perfectly willing to post in the Serbian edition of Playboy or sell adverts for USA on the internet. The biggest threat to Serbia is Serbs themselves.
(Zoran, 12 February 2008 16:41)
There are young serbs that see their country prosperous in EU and in PEACE with their neighbors
and
there is bm-rusila &Co that see them as criminals.
Maybe because they haven’t destroyed anything but want to build peace and prosperity?
(ben, 12 February 2008 17:36)
thank you, you students who have found a public voice, at last. through the generations, students have often (not always) served as a kind of conscience and cutting edge -- for my generation it was the late 60s/early 70s anti vietnam war demonstrations. but there are many such examples worldwide, and throughout at least this century, and they don't need a soros or anyone else to fund them or approve of their actions. it is amazing what poor and struggling students can accomplish when given the right set of circumstances...
i have long asked, IMplored the bright young students of blgd to spk up against nationalism and their less-than-respectable govt leadership, and i salute you guys and gals. pls keep up the pressure.
i do feel quite srongly, however, that you need to make a clean breAk with yr govt. leaders, and make peace with newly emerging independent kosovo/a. i know that this is not a hugely popular position inside serbia, but it is a necessary one for any meaningful progress to ensue. please ignore the ubiquitous calls for nationalistic solidarity, and strike a note for integrity, democracy and peace.
roberto from frisco
(robert0, 13 February 2008 06:47)
All the info we are fed on B92 first goes through the Soros filter. The students aren't the only ones that cannot think for themselves.
(vrnjak, 12 February 2008 17:02)
Although I am not a B92 moderator, I'm 100% certain by your comment that you will not post anything in the future is pure malarchy.
Moving forward, with regard to the student's protest, they need to be patient, as brmusila stated. They need to recognize that all that they watch on the media is NOT true & go with what their gut feeling is. In other words be a leader & not a follower. READ YOUR HISTORY & RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF KOSOVO TO THE SERBIANS!!
Oh right the bogeyman Soros himself returns to topic - except this Serbian student demonstration owes much more to the internal political situation than to the supposed machinations of an individual.
Still why believe a fact when you can choose what to belive, after all its easier that way...
(bganon, 13 February 2008 01:47)
For moderator.
I realy thought that B92 is an independent non biest news agency. I sent some comments today and were not posted which is a bit disapointing but never mind as i never will do it in the future.
Cheers
There are young serbs that see their country prosperous in EU and in PEACE with their neighbors
and
there is bm-rusila &Co that see them as criminals.
Maybe because they haven’t destroyed anything but want to build peace and prosperity?
(ben, 12 February 2008 17:36)
"and funded by the LDP and soros....nice education system when they cant think for them selves...."
Hilarious comment, with the typical poor English as one can expect in Serb forums.
How much "funds" does a protest like that need? This Serb Soros theory is really getting more and more funny every year that goes by. Serb nationalists are perfectly willing to post in the Serbian edition of Playboy or sell adverts for USA on the internet. The biggest threat to Serbia is Serbs themselves.
(Zoran, 12 February 2008 16:41)
For moderator.
I realy thought that B92 is an independent non biest news agency. I sent some comments today and were not posted which is a bit disapointing but never mind as i never will do it in the future.
Cheers
Why don't serb students protest what is happening to their own people for the last nine years. Tadic should refrain from inciting thest marches in order to break Kostunica.
In Pejë 11 February 2008
Criminal fire set inside the house of a Serbian IDP in Pejë/Peć town. Yesterday Sunday afternoon at around 15:00, the fire brigade intervened to put out a fire that caused considerable damages to the house of Mr. Radule Labović, currently displaced in Serbia proper. The house was also vandalized. This incident follows another criminal fire inside the house of Ms. Lubica Mušikić last Tuesday in the same neighborhood where only very few Serbian families have returned.
(Jim, 12 February 2008 10:02)
Oh right the bogeyman Soros himself returns to topic - except this Serbian student demonstration owes much more to the internal political situation than to the supposed machinations of an individual.
Still why believe a fact when you can choose what to belive, after all its easier that way...
(bganon, 13 February 2008 01:47)
Although I am not a B92 moderator, I'm 100% certain by your comment that you will not post anything in the future is pure malarchy.
Moving forward, with regard to the student's protest, they need to be patient, as brmusila stated. They need to recognize that all that they watch on the media is NOT true & go with what their gut feeling is. In other words be a leader & not a follower. READ YOUR HISTORY & RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF KOSOVO TO THE SERBIANS!!
Even though I always support students and their rights, this time I cannot give them support. I understand that they are very young and that majority of them if not all of them have never visited Kosovo and Metohija or have a bad perception of the country’s history .What is our country trying to do now is to preserve a country as a whole that our ancestors lost their lives. I understand that they want better life but that is not the reason to give up on something that someone else died for.
Fortunately this group of only 1000 students shows that they do not make majority and cannot represent the entire number of the students. Besides, democracy is the will of the majority and I see no majority over here to impose conditions to government. It is most likely that they were really organised by some political party and most likely to be by the LDP indeed. However, I am sure that government will take the political deal into consideration later on, but not now because that political deal offered by the EU cannot be priority now. So, dear students show a bit of patience and maturity. You should be asking government for referendum on future integration in the EU and see for once how many people actually do support integrations after the EU’s nasty role in dismembering of our country. I don’t want minority to cause some social riots by thinking that those who wants EU integrations make majority. So, referendum will show us the real mood of the citizens towards the integrations within EU.
(bmrusila, 12 February 2008 11:14)
thank you, you students who have found a public voice, at last. through the generations, students have often (not always) served as a kind of conscience and cutting edge -- for my generation it was the late 60s/early 70s anti vietnam war demonstrations. but there are many such examples worldwide, and throughout at least this century, and they don't need a soros or anyone else to fund them or approve of their actions. it is amazing what poor and struggling students can accomplish when given the right set of circumstances...
i have long asked, IMplored the bright young students of blgd to spk up against nationalism and their less-than-respectable govt leadership, and i salute you guys and gals. pls keep up the pressure.
i do feel quite srongly, however, that you need to make a clean breAk with yr govt. leaders, and make peace with newly emerging independent kosovo/a. i know that this is not a hugely popular position inside serbia, but it is a necessary one for any meaningful progress to ensue. please ignore the ubiquitous calls for nationalistic solidarity, and strike a note for integrity, democracy and peace.
roberto from frisco
(robert0, 13 February 2008 06:47)
All the info we are fed on B92 first goes through the Soros filter. The students aren't the only ones that cannot think for themselves.
(vrnjak, 12 February 2008 17:02)