Faculty Students Camping in Belgrade’s Pioneers Park Threaten To Go on Hunger Strike unless Lectures Start by June 1

Students 2.0 (BETAPHOTO/MILAN ILIC)

Milos Pavlovic, a student of the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine and a representative of group Student 2.0, has said the group demands the resumption of lectures at faculties by June 1, or would go on a hunger strike. 

Speaking to reporters at the Pioneers Park in downtown Belgrade, where “the students who want to study” have been camping for several months, in protest against the blockade of faculties, Pavlovic said they demanded from the president, the prime minister and the parliament speaker to ensure their rights, guaranteed under the Serbian Constitution. 

Pavlovic said he would appeal to all his colleagues to join him on a hunger strike, unless their three demands were met by June 1. 

The first demand, according to Pavlovic, is the resumption of work at all faculties in Serbia by Sunday, June 1. Secondly, “urgently initiating moral, disciplinary and criminal liability action against all those who have prevented us from exercising our rights granted under the Constitution – from the right to education, to the right to freedom of movement.” 

“The third demand is to finally prevent fascist attacks on us and threats that they will remove and exterminate us, and also calling us mentally ill because we want to receive an education,” Pavlovic said.