All roads lead to Nis: Students are getting closer, despite injuries arrived in Svrljig – BBC News in Serbian

From different parties, but due to the same goal, numerous students from Serbia are on their way to Nis.

Some of the five-day hiking went on Monday, to join others by other colleagues during the coming days, and all the same city in southern Serbia, where another student protest announced for Saturday.

Although they mostly tell them they are not difficult, injuries and blisters were forced to give up.

« The hardest thing was last night, as we approached Knjaževac. The rain was falling, we didn't know how many more times ago, there seemed to be there, « said Teodora, a student from Novi Sad, for the BBC in Serbian.

Due to the injuries, she had to stop walking, and was transported from Knjaževac to Svrljig where medical help received.

Despite the pain, it says that « feeling is incredible ».

« We all know why we are here and why we fight, » said a high business school student.

On the first March, a new large student meeting is organized in Nis, then he turns four months from the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, when 15 people were killed, and two were injured.

One of the main requests of students is to determine criminal responsibility for the decline in the canopy and publishing the entire documentation on the station in Novi Sad, which was twice renovated in recent years.

Students block three months across the country and organize protests as a form of pressure on power to meet the requirements, and above all, establishing criminal responsibility for Novi Sad Tragedy.

Power repeats that they are Requests filledbut students and their professors which support these claims deny and reject the calls of senior officials to talk.

In the previous days, as the students moved to Nis, in Zajecar, incidents were recorded in the Municipal Assembly building, while a large protest was held in Belgrade in front of the Ministry of Education in Belgrade.

Protest in Nis: 'Student Edict'

The title of the protest « Student Edict » is symbolically connected to the Milan Edict of Emperor Constantine Great from 313. year, which was born in Nis. It introduced equality of religions in the Roman Empire.

Will last 18 symbolic hours, because 018 is a code for Nis, but it is also a change in the change that is needed, They wrote Nis students.

Students from several cities were sent, including Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Uzice, Cacak, Bor, Bujanovac.

Some went on foot, other bicycles, and the locals welcome them with food and support transparent.

Self-organized accommodation is preparing, but also necessary drugs and first aid.

Watch the video about the Sreten's meeting of students in Kragujevac

Over shade on the protest

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Hundreds of lights off the on mobile phones illuminated the main road to Svrljig.

A group of students, who went from Bora for Nis, overwhelmed the most difficult part of the road by crossing the shavings of the Tresibab mountain.

Although they left tens of kilometers of uneven terrain behind them, Elian did not miss them.

With portable speakers, he echoed the music, noise was also ruling drums as drivers were stopped by the road salutation with « Bravo students » and « pump ».

The excitement was also spreading between the locals of Svrljig who was eagerly awaited guests.

When they arrived, dozens of torches in the colors of the Serbian flag worked for them, with fireworks that spread dark sky.

« Bravo Heroes » and « You are our children, » Krljižani shouted.

The students answered their smiles and tears.

Just the legs hurt, but we are happy to have experienced this, they told the BBC journalists.

We feel at home, although we are welcomed by the people we see for the first time, they said.

It was planned for students to sleep in the elementary school hall, but some locals came to the school yard to offer accommodation in their homes.

For those who remain in the hall, beds, but also food tables are prepared.

Earlier during the day, several young men and girls who were brought for injuries were housed here.

« I couldn't stand on my feet, let alone walk, » Ilija says, a student of the Faculty of Political Sciences.

He reached wrinks from Novi now, from where Zajecar, Knjaževac and Vršibaba, was due to reach Svrljig.

Due to the injury, he had to take a break, but he did not give up and plans to go on Friday, he would go in Nis on Friday.

For students of Medicinara, whose task was to help colleagues, was a lot of work, said Katarina Pavlović, from a high health school from Belgrade.

It was inhumed, pain, inflammation, she said.

« I only thought of getting in as many as many numbers.

« When I see they slow down, I just think if we'll be able to help everyone. Because the hardest thing was when we have to get home and break up. « 

The previous day students were welcomed in Zajecar, where they waited for and smaller the red carpet, while the sidewalk was crowded in the roundabout in the city center.

The whistles and wavzele were heard, and the masses came out some of the bicycle pump, called the BBC Reporter Nemanja Mitrović.

« I'm not responsibility only towards the college I come from, students, professors and employees I represent, but also towards the city I come from and where I would like to return at all times.

« Although some people forget about Eastern Serbia, students think of her, » one of the students said.

So far, several student protest walks have been organized – first students of the Belgrade Faculties have walked up to 80 kilometers away from remote, Novi Sad, Niški, Čačanski, Kraljevo, Uzice and NoviPasar students from various directions on foot came to Kragujevac For Seat, 15. February.

Almost everyone crossed about 150 kilometers.

The group of students of the Zrenjanin Technical Faculty « Mihajlo Pupin » ran close to 100 kilometers to Vršac to participate in a large gathering held on Sunday, February 23.

Under the slogan « From Banat, from Ianata, » in this city in the northeast of the state, a six-hour set of support for students was held.

Almost 300 kilometers away, in Zajecar, the day before, 22. February, the largest meeting in eastern Serbia was organized.

In addition to the message « there will be noise until the requirements meet, » the « blocking » choir, a walk, as well as a 15 minute silence for victims.

Incidents in Zajecar

Just a few hours before the student's welcome, some Zajecar and the opposition representatives gathered in front of the City Assembly, where the session was supposed to be held.

Allegedly dissatisfied with local self-government plans, where they started towards the hall where the session was supposed to be, in which the BBC journalist in Serbian Nemanja Mitrović reported.

The building took the eggs, and the pepper spray was also used.

In the meantime, the session was postponed by 5. March, due to the lack of the quorum, said the opposition councilor Dejan Krstić.

« Some of them were scared, they did not come, some councilors as oppositions that have not been given a quorum with power so far. The people succeeded, « Krstic said, He conveyed N1.

In previous days and in other cities in Serbia, residents and opposition representatives were trying to prevent the sessions of the city parliament.

It is on Monday The Novi Sad Assembly, in which the new mayor was elected, it was socked by eggs and red paintand similar scenes were seen last week and in front of the city hall in Kraljevo.

Educational workers with students

While students walked in Serbia, teachers and professors of primary and secondary schools, and university professors, gathered in an informal group Pulse, held a four-hour protest blockade in front of the Ministry of Education in Belgrade.

They published several requests at earlier gatherings, including the improvement of the material and social position of teachers, as well as the changes in the previously signed collective agreement between representative unions and the Ministry of Education.

The protest in front of the Ministry of Education was joined by professors who are running a relay marathon from Novi Sad to Nis.

About 60 professors, who went on Tuesday morning, ran a marathon in 12 shares, carrying the declaration that show « the greatest solidarity », said Sanja Belić, an extraordinary professor of the Faculty of Science.

Due to protest of educators and student blockades, individual schools throughout Serbia did not regularly began another semester, so that the class or lessons were held for 30 minutes.

The exact number of schools that do not work is not known as the competent and dissatisfied educators are different data.

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