YUGOSLAVIA: SEVERAL HUNDRED SUPPORTERS OF ARRESTED FORMER PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC PROTEST AGAINST HIS JAILING OUTSIDE BELGRADE'S CENTRAL PRISON

Record ID: 649101

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: SEVERAL HUNDRED SUPPORTERS OF ARRESTED FORMER PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC PROTEST AGAINST HIS JAILING OUTSIDE BELGRADE'S CENTRAL PRISON
  • Date: 4th April 2001
  • Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (APRIL 4, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV: PROTESTERS CHANTING "SLOBO, SLOBO, SERBIA, SERBIA" 0.05 2. CLOSE-UP OF PROTESTER HOLDING LEAFLET READING: "ARREST ME, I AM SLOBO TOO." 0.08 3. CU: PROTESTERS CHANTING: "WE ARE NOT GIVING SLOBO UP" 0.12 4. CLOSE-UP OF POSTER SHOWING SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC 0.15 5. SCU: ANOTHER SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC POSTER, PAN UP TO PROTESTERS CHANTING: "WE ARE NOT GIVING SERBIA UP" 0.18 6. CLOSE-UP OF ELDERLY MAN, PROTESTERS CHANTING: "WE ARE NOT GOING TO ACCEPT BLACKMAIL." 0.23 7. WIDE OF PROTESTERS CHANTING: "NATO-FASCISTS" 0.27 8. SV: FEMALE PROTESTERS CHANTING 0.31 9. SV: YOUNG PROTESTER WITH MEGAPHONE CHANTING: "TODAY IS THE 4TH OF APRIL, THE DAY OF STUDENTS. LONG LIVE SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC." 0.42 10. VARIOUS: MORE OF PEOPLE CHANTING: "SLOBO, SLOBO." (3 SHOTS) 0.59 11. SV/CU'S: PEOPLE SINGING YUGOSLAV ANTHEM (3 SHOTS) 1.29 12. SV: PROTESTERS CHANTING: ARREST DJINDJIC (CURRENT YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER) 1.36 13. SCU/SV: PEOPLE HOLDING POSTER SHOWING SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC AND CHANTING: "TAKE DJINDJIC AWAY." (2 SHOTS) 1.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th April 2001 13:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVACSVQ9CG12DWD5MRD9BBEF0QM4
  • Story Text: Several hundred supporters of arrested former
    Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic have demonstrated
    against his arraignment outside Belgrade's central prison.


    Overwhelmingly middle-aged and elderly with the
    hard-bitten faces of the old communist working class on whom
    Milosevic rose to power in the 1980s, the demonstrators
    chanted "Slobo, Slobo" and "to arrest Slobo is to arrest
    all Serbs."
    But the turnout was a far cry from the crowds the ousted
    Yugoslav president could muster at the zenith of his power and
    it was only the first rally on his behalf since his arrest on
    Sunday for embezzlement.

    The peaceful rally before the iron gates of the hilltop
    prison triggered no counter-protest - most Serbs welcomed his
    arrest but quickly returned to daily routine - and only four
    policemen watched from a distance, looking bored.

    Milosevic was unlikely to have heard the hoarse chants and
    off-key singing of his traditional disciples because his cell,
    while renovated to befit an ex-head of state, has no windows.

    Earlier this week Serbian socialists threatened to begin
    daily demonstrations if their leader was not released from
    custody by Friday. Party president President Branislav Ivkovic
    said the demonstrators would be ready for "all possible
    scenarios".


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