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As Danas wrote about October 5, 2000
On this day 20 years ago, massive demonstrations were held in Belgrade, ending the government of Slobodan Milosevic.
The cover of Danas is from October 6, 2000.Demonstrations in Belgrade broke out after Milosevic refused to acknowledge the results of the election for president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the elections of September 24, 2000, Milosevic lost to DOS candidate and leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), Vojislav Kostunica.
That day, protesters reached the plateau in front of the then Federal Assembly, and today the House of the National Assembly, from all over Serbia in columns of cars, buses and trucks tens of kilometers long, razing police checkpoints.
A day later, on October 6, 2000, Danas dedicated more than 10 pages to this event, and Danas reporters reported that protests were coming from all directions and from all over Serbia, and that the police were with the protesters. .
According to Danas at the time, more than a million citizens occupied the Federal Assembly building, which was later demolished and burned, as well as the RTS building on Takovska Street. The main report of the protest was titled “Serbia prevented Milosevic from leaving”.
Things were taken out of the assembly, protesters passed assembly seats in the streets of Belgrade, and dozens of people were injured.
Telephone connections between Belgrade and the interior were difficult.
SPO leader Vuk Draskovic, who is in the ruling coalition today, said that day that he was “happy, but also sad that he is not in Belgrade.”
On the night of October 5, 2000, the new FRY president, Vojislav Kostunica, addressed citizens from the terrace of the Belgrade Assembly, and the next day, October 6, Milosevic admitted his electoral defeat and congratulated to Kostunica.
Many public figures participated in the celebration on the terrace of the City Assembly, among which were Olivera Katarina, Obren Joksimović, Rambo Amadeus, Danica Maksimović, Sergej Trifunović, Nebojša Glogovac …
That same night, the opposition representative Milan St. Protic was elected mayor of Belgrade.
Bojan Bosiljcic, editor of the Cultural Editorial Committee of RTS, announced shortly after 9:00 p.m. on the First Program of Serbian Radio and Television that this house would begin broadcasting according to professional standards, apologizing in advance for possible improvisations and announcing the speech of the winner of the presidential elections in FR Yugoslavia Vojislav Kostunica.
Bosiljcic read the proclamation signed, as he put it, by “Belgrade Television professionals”.
Belgrade televisions Palma, Pink and Košava stopped broadcasting the regular program around 7 pm, Danas wrote a day later.
In this issue of our newspaper, the day after the protest, the text of the journalist’s author and later RTS editor-in-chief Aleksandar Tijanić was published.
“Milosevic enters the final political development in the same way that he entered politics: with the mentality of a child who was not invited to a birthday party by someone in the class. “He perceives the outcome of these elections as the absence of an invitation to the celebration, as a definitive and insulting Serbian assessment of his courage and not of his politics,” Tijanic wrote.
The complete digital archive of the list from 1997 to today will soon be available on the Danas website.
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