Due to the ministers’ statements that caused concern and condemnation, the University of Belgrade asked the Prime Minister to make a clear statement and take appropriate steps
Rector’s College and the deans of the faculties of the University of Belgrade demanded political responsibility from Ministers Darko Glišić and Boris Bratina, and from the Prime Minister of Serbia Djura Macuta to comment on their statements.
“The academic community of the University of Belgrade, of which you are a long-term member, is deeply shaken and disgusted by the monstrous statements of Minister Darko Glišić (“don’t send children to blockading faculties, they will return them to you in coffins”) and Minister Boris Bratina (“young people are not aware that the police there have the right to beat and kill them”). Such media appearances cross the boundaries of law, morality and humanity and incite violence and insanity in public discourse,” states the statement addressed to Matsut, signed by the Rector’s College and Faculty Deans of the University of Belgrade.
While, as they say, successful and responsible countries support and nurture their most successful universities, ours, for reasons known to itself, treats it as an enemy.
“We demand that you, as the Prime Minister, as well as a professor at the University of Belgrade, immediately make a statement about the aforementioned statements. If you do not agree with them and if you condemn them, we ask that you take appropriate measures and inform the public about it,” the statement said.
The University of Belgrade appealed to the conscience, honor and integrity of all members of the academic community, without distinction or exception, and called on them to publicly condemn any speech of hatred and violence, to send messages of responsibility and decency with words, and to defend human rights, civil and academic freedoms with actions.
Verbal outbursts by Glišić, Bratina and Vučić
Let us remind you that “Vreme” wrote about the verbal outbursts of the Minister of Public Investments, Darko Glišić, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučuić, and the Minister of Information, Boris Bratina, as well as the absence of any reaction from the competent institutions to the “banging” of the highest state officials.
First, the Minister for Public Investments, Darko Glišić, stood out, warning parents not to enroll their children in “blockade”, i.e., state faculties, lest their children be “returned in coffins” like the unfortunate student from Šabac whose lifeless body was found in front of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
Then the Minister of Information and Telecommunications Boris Bratina managed to say that the students should be aware that the police have the right to beat and kill.
The President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, continued in the same murderous tone, who, during a tour of the works at the Expo, casually ruled that a student at the Faculty of Philosophy was “murdered”, that the blockaders had committed “educational genocide” and that they were going to arrest the blockading professors at the Faculty of Political Sciences.
Source: Vreme
