ER Editor: We confess to having little sense of what is happening in Serbia, a country that we believe is naturally close to Russia in its cultural leanings but which has been the subject of much western deep state pressure historically. We offer some tweets on this weekend’s protests which offer us a better perspective —
TWEET WITH THREAD BELOW (check out accompany pictures online) —
Thread —
A Serbian writes about the protest: “Sorry, I don’t want to waste your time, but please understand that there was no Maidan (western deep state overthrow of Ukraine in 2014) in Serbia. We are Serbs, not Ukrainians, we are Orthodox, not Satanists (whoa), today our people did not come to overthrow the government, we came together to express our dissatisfaction with it.” 2/
The same government that works against its people, sells itself to the rich West for little money, and the same government that sold weapons to Ukrainians, many of us Serbs feel betrayed by our government and just want to unite and express our dissatisfaction.” 3/
“Here are some photos from today, the organization and most of the people left as soon as there were any signs of violence, because we know how easy it is to manipulate the masses.” 4/
BREAKING: Police in Serbia used sonic weapons against protesters tonight!
Serbian police have allegedly used sonic weapon against protesters tonight.
Many witnesses report collapsing to the ground, completely disoriented. pic.twitter.com/zsnEUfoUoK
— Mario ZNA (@MarioBojic) March 15, 2025
From last summer —
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A reminder that NATO bombed Belgrade, Serbia for 79 days straight during the time when the existing larger state of Yugoslavia got destroyed and carved up into smaller states. See this —
Bombing to bring peace
On March 24, 1999, NATO attacked Serbia and bombed it for two and half months. Around two thousand civilians were killed – a figure most often quoted locally and probably realistic. Milosevic’s regime quoted a figure of five thousand, NATO of five hundred. There is more agreement about the number of Serbian soldiers (both in the military service and the reservists) and policemen killed – seven hundred and two hundred respectively. The material damages are between thirty and fifty billion dollars. As a result, Serbia, which had been poor, became even poorer, unemployment increased and wages decreased.
Milosevic’s regime claimed that NATO killed civilians intentionally. For its part, NATO defended itself by stating that these were “collateral damages.” The truth was somewhere in the middle – due to Western public opinion, NATO planners had to show concern that there be no large-scale civilian casualties, but they did not make a major effort to decrease civilian casualties as much as possible. The pilots were, for example, allowed to drop bombs, both “smart’ and “dumb,” from great heights on targets which were not clearly visible.
Inflicting “moderate” suffering on the civilian population suited NATO planners – the suffering would be used to break the population’s will to resist and force it to rise up against Milosevic. …
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RT has this —
Dozens injured in Belgrade protests (VIDEOS)
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ER: This was put out on Friday, before yesterday’s protests —
Serbia Prepares For Huge Protests, Violence, and “Blockade” of Belgrade
Anti-government protesters as well as counter-demonstators are descending on the capital of Serbia, with the president warning of potential violence.
ZOLTAN KOTTASZ for EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE
Serbia is preparing for one of its biggest protests in decades as demonstrators descend on its capital, Belgrade on Saturday, March 15th.
The country’s president, Aleksandar Vučić has warned that the anti-government protesters could resort to violence, while outgoing Prime Minister Miloš Vučević said the participants of the rally want to initiate the “blockade” of Belgrade for 72 hours.
Serbian police in riot gear block a bridge during an anti-government demonstration in Belgrade OLIVER BUNIC / str / AFP
In preparation for the demonstrations on Saturday, which are scheduled to take place in front of the parliament, authorities said the building will be locked for the next three days for security reasons.
Meanwhile, pro-Vučić counter-protesters are gathering in front of the presidential palace.
Protests in the EU candidate country have been ongoing for more than four months. They erupted following the November collapse of a train station roof in the northern city of Novi Sad, which killed fifteen people.
Anti-government voters believe the accident is symptomatic of the corruption and nepotism they associate with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which has been in power since 2012.
The station building was renovated twice in recent years in a deal with Chinese state companies, and critics believe that the sloppy reconstruction work may have resulted from corruption.
The tragedy led to the resignation of Transport and Infrastructure Minister Goran Vesić, and prosecutors filed charges against thirteen people over the collapse, including Vesić and several state officials. The charges against Vesić were dropped just a week after his arrest, which caused widespread outrage and the escalation of the student-led protests into a country-wide anti-government movement.
Vesić and twelve others were then indicted and detained again in late December, but it wasn’t enough to contain anti-government sentiments.
President Aleksandar Vučić reshuffled his government in January in an attempt to appease the protesters, and agreed to all of their demands, including the full disclosure of documents related to the deadly accident, the impartial investigation and prosecution of all those responsible, the release of all detained protesters, and increasing public funding for higher education.
These steps have clearly not eased the growing tension in the country.
Earlier this week, protesters barred access to the offices of state broadcasters, keeping employees out and forcing some live programming off the air. The opposition has got in on the act, too: last week, some of their MPs caused havoc by tossing smoke grenades and tear gas inside the parliament.
Nationalist Vučić has described the protests as a Western-orchestrated ploy to oust him from power.
The prime minister of neighbouring Hungary, Viktor Orbán, has said that “globalist-liberal forces” are attempting to destabilise a sovereign nation, and warned that these same forces are pursuing Slovakia and Hungary, too, nations where sovereigntist forces are in power.
