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Miloš Jovanović, MA
Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

 

THE PROTESTS OF THE SERBIAN OPPOSITION DURING THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS IN MARCH 1991

Vol. XLIII, 2/2025, pp. 525–542
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2025.2.jov.525-542

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

The op­po­si­ti­on pro­tests in Bel­gra­de in the first half of March 1991 were or­ga­ni­zed by the ma­in op­po­si­ti­on par­ti­es aga­inst the pro­pa­gan­da by the Ra­dio Te­le­vi­si­on of Bel­gra­de. This propaganda was abo­ut the al­le­ged col­la­bo­ra­ti­on between the Ser­bi­an op­po­si­ti­on party and the enemy re­gi­me in the Re­pu­blic of Cro­a­tia. This was the con­ti­nu­a­ti­on of the bad re­por­ting aga­inst the po­li­ti­cal op­po­si­ti­on af­ter the first mul­ti-party elec­ti­ons in 1990. The pro­tests on the 9th of March 1991 were fol­lowed by vi­o­lent cras­hes and a con­flict between the po­li­ce and pro­te­sters. The re­a­son for this si­tu­a­ti­on was the fact that the­se pro­tests were for­bid­den. In the night, the Yugo­slav army in­ter­ve­ned, which was or­de­red by the Pre­si­dency of Yugo­sla­via. The continuati­on of the pro­pa­gan­da aga­inst the op­po­si­ti­on was the ma­in re­a­son for the mo­bi­li­za­ti­on of stu­dents from Bel­gra­de Uni­ver­sity. They had pro­tests in the city centre for the next 4 days. The ru­ling party ac­cep­ted the­ir de­mands af­ter three days, re­gar­dless of the­ir de­mands be­ing si­mi­lar to the requi­re­ments of the op­po­si­ti­on par­ti­es on the 9th of March. The­se pro­tests happened du­ring the Yugo­slav cri­sis and the be­gin­ning of di­sin­te­gra­ti­on of the sta­te. The Presidency of Yugo­sla­via tri­ed to use the­se events and the con­flict in the Cro­a­ti­an city of Pa­krac between Serbs and Cro­ats, se­ven days be­fo­re the Bel­gra­de pro­tests, to dec­la­re a sta­te of emergency. But they didn’t ha­ve the ma­jo­rity to im­ple­ment it.

 

KEYWORDS: 9th of March 1991, op­po­si­ti­on, Pre­si­dency of Yugo­sla­via, Slo­bo­dan Mi­lo­še­vić, Vuk Dra­ško­vić, Ra­dio Te­le­vi­si­on of Bel­gra­de, stu­dent pro­tests

 

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