Arrests out of the blue, banishment from the country, beatings... The Serbian Progressive Party, born from the foam left behind by their spiritual father Vojislav Šešelj, is returning to its roots.
In the last ten days alone, we had attacks on Nemanja Šarović and the KTV team, for which the police remained absent, although present. We had arrests of people like columnist Dejan Ilić, raids on the faculty, RTS workers being escorted through a kebab shop and the expulsion of a Croatian woman who has lived in Serbia for years and has a family here.
In the new government, there are people waiting for revenge. Let's say the Minister of Education will be Dejan Vuk Stanković, who announced that he needs a couple of weeks to "sort out" the blockages at the faculties.
That is the title of the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday (April 17).
The increase in violence was accompanied by unbearable propaganda from television and tabloid portals, according to which "terrorists" were protesting against the government.
"The essence is the government's desire to get votes. Their goal is to stay in power and they stop at nothing to achieve that goal. I don't know if the justification of violence is intentional or a side effect, but it happens," Oliver Tošković, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, told "Vreme".
"Anyone who thinks differently is a terrorist. People attack each other at festivals, there are families that are divided over whether their child will support their strike at school or not. The division that begins to tear families apart, as the basis of a society, is the most terrible thing in all of this," he says.
"When you have such a divided society, there is dehumanization and justification of violence. All this damages society in the long term and it will take a long time to heal it," concludes the interlocutor of "Vremena".
Read all the articles on this topic in the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday (April 17). You can subscribe to the print or digital edition here.
