BELGRADE, JULY 2020 (photos by @/bratvinski on IG)
This is a very serious situation, please extend your passion towards the protests in the US to the people of Serbia as well.
If you were to google the situation going on there right now, you’d find most international news sources claiming that these protests are over the new lockdown measures. This is not true. Other people have recapped this better than I will, but essentially these protests are against the current government and it’s been a long time coming. The citizens of Serbia were lied to regarding the covid19 situation (the number of infected and death toll was fabricated and the government lied about the healthcare system’s capacity to cope with the pandemic), and the president (dictator) abandoned the quarantine in order to manipulate and rig the elections last month in his favor. All of this was the final straw for the years of oppression the people of Serbia have been facing under the government’s rule. Spontaneous peaceful protests started happening a few days ago as a result and they have been met with police brutality.
What I’m asking is that you please take what the Serbian people are saying seriously and spread the ACCURATE information around. The president has had the country in a tight chokehold for years. It is vital that this does NOT lose momentum.
