'Where are you going to change': The 'Student Edikt' – BBC News in Serbian

On freedom, justice, dignity, state, solidarity.

These are some of the provisions of the « Student Edict », which are thousands of gathered demonstrators in Nis 1. March presented members of the academic community.

Thousands of people from all over Serbia gathered at the central city square to mark four months from the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, when 15 people were killed.

Protest named « Student Edict » by model to a document from 313. years which ensured equality of religions in the Roman Empire, lasts 18 hours.

« The people woke up, support is amazing, it gives me the strength to continue my best, » Milutin says, Student, and one of the present for the BBC in Serbian.

The protest began at nine o'clock in four locations across the city where students, pensioners and many others in columns came to King Milan Square.

After the 15-minute silence for 15 people in the fall of the train station of the train station in Novi Sad four months ago, a protest program that includes, inter alia, the play and performing bands.

Around the grassy area on the square, behind the monument, 15 trees are planted on which the names of the victims in Tragedy were planted. November last year.

The inhabitants of Novi Sad also marked four months from the tragedy at the train station by laying flowers and a 15-minute silence.

The new Student Protest in Belgrade was unofficially announced in Nis in Belgrade for 15. March.

Hairdressing, pumping and wuvzele

In the center of Niche and the surrounding streets, food is prepared, hairdressers gathered, and support provides motorcyclists who sporadically pass the safety bar.

« We came for student safety and know we were there, » says Dragan Živić, Bajker from Nis.

They expect across a thousand bikers from Novi Sad, Belgrade, Kragujevac.

The long columns of vehicles arrived during the day, and at a toll ramp, Vrčin at the exit from Belgrade in the direction in Nis in the morning was a great crowd.

Hundreds of students are After a multi-day walking on roads, hills and slopes of mountainspedaling of two-wheelers and marathon runs from different sides, arrived in Nis, the largest city in southern Serbia, to join colleagues in the new action of pressure to power to meet all their requirements.

More thousands of gathered citizens are home to the National Theater in the city center, with the sounds of whistles, fireworks and inflamed torches, prepared a large welcome.

Smiling and euphoric students reached the center in columns smiling in journalistic cameras, while Nislongs waved the flags and various banners, Reporter Dejan Vukadinović reported.

In masses, a banner and a « Niška Banja » folk songs are noded, which says « VI Nislije Meraklije, without brandy without brandy, and without a young Vojvodjevo ».

« I walked all the big protests, I motivate me to stay in this state because I believe in better tomorrow and that my children will grow up here better than I », says Jana from Ada from the north of Vojvodina.

The bridge that connects the Nis Fortress and Square filled the people of different generations in winter jackets, but as they said with warmth in the heart.

The square was also reached by the oldest citizens carrying transparent « and pensioners have a farbo to color the revolution », as well as military veterans.

Instead of tones of jazz, who fulfills the fortress, turned around the sounds and drums with the United States already recognizable exclamation – Pump.

Visitors from various ends of Serbia are briefly paused from the monument to the Kalci, the famous Nis inn, which is seated with the writer by Stewan Srem.

And guests can and on the sidewalks as they slept their sleeves from the menu, and the menu of warm drinks and various treats, including pancakes.

« It's for all the people who walked, cooking to an elimination, but I hope not ours.

« Mostly all of the thrilled pancakes, we divided a lot, so we will now make it yet, » says Nemanja.

In the afternoon, the parade of people are on the afternoon, and the parade of people defile central city streets.

The temperature decreases, but not the energy present.

'Justice is fuel'

The new student action in Nis will last symbolic for 18 hours, because it is 018 area code for Nis.

At the same time, the call for the change required, the Nis students in the announcement of the protests were written.

The protest of the « Student Edict » was organized in the day when marked four months from the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, in which 15 people were killed, and two were injured.

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

« 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.

At the beginning of the last week of February, students from several cities were sent, including Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Uzice, Cacak, Bor, Bujanovac, Pirot.

In Novi Pazar is 27. February a multi-hour protest held State University students (DUNP), who joined colleagues from other cities.

Previous mass protests were held in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Kragujevac.

Some students walked to Nis, others went bicycles, and the locals of villages and cities through which they passed them were greeted by food and support transparents, preparing them and accommodation and medical help.

One of the slogans during walking was Pumpwhich is why in many posters in Nisa, the notches a drawn pump or tank of a car that is complemented by fuel is met in Nis.

Hundreds of kilometers traveled

The students of Belgrade's faculties were walking first Up to 80 kilometers away from a new nowmarking three months from the fall of the canopy at the train station in this city.

They are then beogradski, Novi Sad, Niški, Čačanski, Kralevački, Uzice and NoviPasar students from various directions on foot came to Kragujevac 15. Februaryon the day of state and state of Serbia.

Almost everyone crossed about 150 kilometers.

For a week later, a group of students of the Technical Faculty in Zrenjanin reached Vršac, after a hundred kilometers crossed, to participate in six hours to the long gathering in that city, Under the slogan « from Banat, from Inat ».

Students across Serbia are more than three months blocking faculties and protest on streets and squares, demanding primarily criminal responsibility for Novi Sad Tragedy.

Their support provides them with many professional associations, as well as their professors, and protests are organized in smaller areas across the country.

Refusing to talk to senior officials and deny the claims of government that they are Requests filled.

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