Veterans from 4 towns to protest
War veterans from four southern towns will today protest in Prokuplje, after criminal charges were brought against them for participation in a previous protest.
Wednesday, 09.06.2010.
13:34
War veterans from four southern towns will today protest in Prokuplje, after criminal charges were brought against them for participation in a previous protest. In late 2008, the veterans blocked the Nis-Pristina road, demanding to be paid overdue war wages, and clashed with Serbian police (MUP) officers and Gendarmes. Veterans from 4 towns to protest 30 people were injured in the incident when thousands of protesters, on their way to the Merdare administrative line checkpoint, tried to break through a cordon of some 200 MUP officers. The veterans' representative Dejan Milosevic says that the protest in 2008 was “peaceful”, and that it was police who “provoked” former army reservists. “Over a thousand reservists were asking for their rights. There were no leaders, people gathered because they were discontent, nobody spurred them to action, although that is what we're being charged with now. If need be, we'll protest until we achieve our rights and until we're set free,” he said. The veterans, members of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) reserve units during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, staged their original protests due to what they saw as unequal treatment they received from the state. The protesters said they were not paid war wages, “while others collected from RSD 500,000 to one million”.
Veterans from 4 towns to protest
30 people were injured in the incident when thousands of protesters, on their way to the Merdare administrative line checkpoint, tried to break through a cordon of some 200 MUP officers.The veterans' representative Dejan Milošević says that the protest in 2008 was “peaceful”, and that it was police who “provoked” former army reservists.
“Over a thousand reservists were asking for their rights. There were no leaders, people gathered because they were discontent, nobody spurred them to action, although that is what we're being charged with now. If need be, we'll protest until we achieve our rights and until we're set free,” he said.
The veterans, members of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) reserve units during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, staged their original protests due to what they saw as unequal treatment they received from the state.
The protesters said they were not paid war wages, “while others collected from RSD 500,000 to one million”.
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