34 years ago in Belgrade, first mass demonstrations were held against Slobodan Milosevic's regime – Society

The protest was organized by the rebellion against the government and the editorial policy of the then radio television Belgrade, which was unobjective, warfare and full of charges and insults on the account of the opposition.

This television was called « TV players » because it worked exclusively in the service of propaganda Milosevic regime, while protest participants were looking for shifts of her cheek people.

At the time, according to the then estimates, there were about 100,000 people who sought the shift of the General Director of Dušan Mitević and Slavko Budihne, Predrag Vitas, Ivana Krivec and Sergei Sestakova.

The opposition supporters by the authorities and spout media were called « Haos and Faw » forces, and various other insults and false accusations were imposed on their account.

Prohibition of assembly, strong police force, tear gas, rubbery but also warmy, beating demonstrators, … were the way Milosevic's regime was calculated with dissidents.

Police tried to disperse citizens and with the help of water cannons and cavalry, groups of demonstrators offered resistance and returned to the streets during the conflict.

In the conflict of demonstrators and police, more than 200 people were injured, and Seventeen Year Old Branivoje Milinović and Police officer Nedeljko Kosović were injured. Milinovic was killed by a police bullet from the intersection « London », and police officer Kosović fell from a concrete wall of about two meters, near « Belgrade », and died on the spot.

During the demonstration, the president of the Serbian movement was arrested by Vuk Drašković, and the work of Television B and Radio B92 was banned.

In response to repression, 10. Marta Students started from the Student City and occupied the plateau near the Terazine Cesha and so, according to the chronicles, « a plush revolution » began.

After a few days of protest, students' demands were adopted, television management was removed, and Drašković was released from prison.

Also, the Minister of Police Radmilo Bogdanović resigned and the radio B92 and Studio B continued to work.

Belgrade was the attention of foreign media in those days, and photographs of Dragane Milojević Srdić (filmed photoreporter Diary of the struggle of Pedja Mitic), which, 9. Marta, with three fingered finger stood in front of the police water warm, became world famous.

Although he has not achieved any concrete results, the 9th primary protest has become a symbol of the fight against Slobodan Milosevic's regime.