Milan Edict: Is there similarities and symbols with Student – BBC News in Serbian

Continuous violence, run and hiding, but also persistence.

More than three hundred years, Christians were persecuted in the Roman Empire.

Ancient peoples were policide, and Christianity was a belief in one God.

The Roman authorities treated Christians as opponents of the state, which encourage treacherous activities, and often contracted them for disobedience.

The repression was stopped at the beginning of the 4th century, by adopting the Milan Edict, which was responsible for Car Konstantin Veliki.

Seventeen centuries later, students in Serbia block faculties and protests by three months, demanding responsibility for Novi Sad tragedy in which lives lost 15 people announce their edict.

The adoption of the 'student edict' will symbolically be at a large protest in Nis, where Konstantin was born.

« Let this edict be a turning point. Let Mark the beginning of the changes we want, « the message is an informal group of students from Nis.

Could it be like a milant?

How did the Milan Edict come?

At the end of the century, the Roman Empire was huge and covers around the entire Mediterranean – from Britain and Spain to the west, to today's east, occupies the North Africa and a significant number of today's European countries.

Religious tolerance In Rome, she did not refer to the religions that the empire perceived the conjunction of the public order.

Cultures like the worship of Iside were banned from time to time, when their rites challenged unrest.

Judaism was widespread throughout the empire, but its exclusive monotheism in combination with a strong nationalist ideology in Judea also led to conflicts and fierce rebellions against Roman government, although they were bloodyly suffocated.

Christianity was sporadically haunted through the centuries.

The groups that met private (whether the religious sects, commercial Esnafi or even local fire brigade) Roman authorities looked at suspicion, due to doubt they could make subversion.

The unwillingness of Christians to adore traditional gods, or to submit victims for the health of empire, considered undermining the state and religious rules.

There is a car diocletian in power whose decrees – ruling documents – they enhance the intolerance towards them.

The aim was to eliminate Christianity from the Empire, and has influenced the complete situation in the then society.

At that time, many who confessed Christianity, which makes the church consider them martyrs and declares for saints.

When Vojskovodja Konstantinborn in the then nasasus, in the area of ​​today's Serbia, took control of the western part of Empire 312. Not only tolerated but also officially favored Christianity.

In Mediolanum (today's Milan) 313. Proclamation or Edict was signed.

It was established by religious tolerance of Christians in the Roman Empire, they were given the right to organize the Church, and the previously taken property was returned, Writes the Encyclopedia of the British.

At the time of Emperor Constantine, Konstantinople was renovated, the latter of the capital by Byzantine, and the wheel of history went further on the hand of Christians.

Pagan culture and rites remained important during the 4th century, but 392. The Car Teodosije prohibits pagan rituals, and Christianity becomes official religion of the Roman state.

At the time of the decision on the tolerance from 313. in the Roman Empire, there were the time of the so-called dominants, when all previously republican institutions have been given to autocracy.

Edicts as a legal expression of imperial will, all civil servants were obliged to respect them and implement them, explains the historian Aleksandra Smirnov Brkić from the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad for BBC in Serbian.

The persecution of Christians who arrested, closed, trained, tortured, killed as enemies of states had a counterfather, increasingly received supporters, alleges professors and author books « In Hoc Signo Vinces: Milan Edict and the victory of Christianity« .

« The Christian movement in the Roman Empire has shown that in the autocratic regime, which are prepared by members of this municipal benefits, can make representatives of the state and adapt to the new social circumstances, » she points out in written responses for the BBC in Serbian.

Printing pages of the future

Since the edict introduces new rules, modern students in Serbia decided to proclaim their own goals.

« Now students of Serbia bring their own, student edict – a message that we will no longer accept injustice, corruption and an inefficient system that limits us.

« Some traces misery, and some become part of history. We invite you to print the pages of the future together and leave the indelible seal of our fight, « Nis are ahead of protests 1. March.

The last three months in Serbia block faculties and protest in the streets, among other things, require criminal responsibility for the decline in the train station in Novi Sad, when 15 people were killed, and two were severely injured.

They blocked the largest traffic loop in Belgrade, three bridges in Novi Sad, Boulevard in Kragujevac, one of the tolls on the Nis-Belgrade highway.

Residents of small places are increasingly coming out on the streets.

Although Aleksandar Vučić, the President of Serbia, calls them to declare him, claiming that all the requirements are met, those with the support of numerous professors and other vocational associations, decisively refuse the call, telling him not to be competent.

The historian does not want to speak on behalf of students about the parallels of the student and so-called Milan Edict, but the real circumstances.

« The context that imposes is that student protests in Serbia represent a turning point in Serbian society and the state.

« Their mass indicates the needs of low-time system type changes, and that despite repressive measures will not stop, » says Smirnov Brkić.

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