Citizens mourn victims of Belgrade school shooting, May 4 2023 (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
In an open letter to Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, Jasna Jankovic, the president of the Association of Teachers Unions of Serbia, stated that “a violent regime and its spokespersons cannot fight violence.”
“They are violence. We should be fighting against them,” Jankovic said in her letter, written in response to the tragedy at Belgrade’s Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary and published by the NIN weekly.
According to Jankovic, the prime minister – whom she addresses as “Ana B.” – “has taken the current senselessness the farthest.”
“She’s formed a Council for Combatting Peer Violence?! Again?! The same one that already exists?! There’s a solution with just a slightly different name. That same prime minister readily greeted the press. She’s adept at putting together task forces, committees and councils. What not? It requires nothing and serves no purpose,” Jankovic concluded.
“They ask me, ‘Now what?’” Jankovic said. “Now: nothing. Our children’s blood has been spilled. Let us repent and bow to their shades. With no souls and no hearts, we’ve nowhere left to go. All we can do is retrace our steps and determine where we went wrong, then take a long time to slowly discuss and amend… If we have the courage to do so,” Jankovic concluded.
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