Protests in Serbia Archive
Odraz B92 Daily News Service

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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 3 PM), February 24, 1997

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    NEWS BY 3 PM
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    TEACHERS STRIKE

    Serbian teachers -- on strike for several weeks -- gathered in
    front of the Serbian Government building on Monday, demanding
    overdue wages and a pay rise. Thousands of teachers blocked the
    traffic in one of the busiest junctions in Belgrade, the crossing
    of Kneza Milosa and Nemanjina Street.

    School heads have kept up the pressure on the teachers, announcing
    resumption of classes and threatening strikers with the sack.
    Dragan Karlavaris, Chairman of the Executive Council of the
    Independent Teachers Trade Union of Vojvodina, said on Monday that
    teaching had resumed in many schools in his region because of
    false information on the state media. The state media announced
    during the weekend that the strike was over and called on students
    to go back to classes. Mr. Karlavaris said ``huge pressure and
    threats by the government have discouraged a number of teachers,''
    according to Beta.


    SRS CONDEMNS PETER GALBRIGHT

    The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) on Monday accused the US
    Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbrigth, of hypocrisy. They said he
    had contributed to the biggest exhodus of a European people in the
    past 50 years with a ``brutal and fierce campaign'' against the
    Serb people. The SRS called for special status for Serbs in
    eastern Slavonia and an undivided territory, with no interference
    from the Croatian Government, FoNet reported.


    MONTENEGRIN PEN CENTRE SENDS LETTER TO PRESIDENT BULATOVIC

    Jakov Mrvaljevic, Chair of the Montenegrin PEN Centre sent an open
    letter to Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic on Monday. The
    letter warned that ``any further support to the despotism of
    [Serbian President] Slobodan Milosevic and his wife'' was
    unacceptable. It called on President Bulatovic and the Montenegrin
    Parliament and Government to effect the independence of
    Montenegro, Montena-Fax and FoNet report.


    NEW APPEAL FOR TRUTH ON HIJACKS

    The Sandzak Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms
    urged the Serbian and Montenegrin Presidents on Monday to reveal
    the results of investigations into a number of unexplained
    hijackings involving Muslim victims. The Council referred to the
    hijacking of a train with 19 passengers on the Belgrade-Bar
    railway in February 1993 and several other hijacks of Muslim
    villagers in Sandzak. The Council noted that although there have
    been some media stories and arrests of individual perpetrators,
    the authorities have remained silent.

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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