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By early December, Serbian students had begun organizing 24-hour blockades at some school campuses. [14] By mid-December, more than 50 university campuses (including the three biggest universities of Belgrade , Novi Sad and Niš ) and multiple secondary schools had suspended classes due to student protests.
On 13 December, farmers in central Serbia blocked a road with tractors. [12] In response to police brutality and alleged paid hooligans that have attacked civilians and protesters, opposition leaders, students, farmers and independent demonstrators organized a large-scale protest on 22 December, at Slavija Square in Belgrade. [18]
The Izbica massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Izbicës; Serbian: Pokolj u Izbici) was one of the largest massacres of the Kosovo War. [1] [3] [4] Following the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found that the massacre resulted in the deaths of at least 93 Kosovar Albanians, mostly male non-combatant civilians between the ages of 60 and 70.
Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces. [13] Kraljevo massacre: 15–21 October 1941 Kraljevo: c. 2,000 German war crime Kragujevac massacre: 20–21 October 1941 Kragujevac: 2,778 German war crime [14] Valjevo executions: 27 November 1941 Valjevo: c. 300
Serbian military, paramilitary and police forces in Kosovo have committed a wide range of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international humanitarian and human rights law: forced expulsion of Kosovars from their homes; burning and looting of homes, schools, religious sites and healthcare facilities; detention, particularly of military-age men; summary execution ...
In 2000, Serbia had a murder rate of 2.4. This increased in 2001 when the murder rate rose to 2.6, after which the murder rate started decreasing, reaching below 2.0 in 2003. [1] In 2012, Serbia had a murder rate of 1.2 per 100,000 population, with a total of 111 murders. [2] In 2020, Serbia's murder rate was 1.02. [1]
Serbia was obliged to pass a special law, which would be the legal framework for resolving all cases of "missing babies", by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from 2013 in the case of one of Zorica Jovanovic's mothers. The verdict handed down in 2013 by the European Court of Human Rights against Serbia in the case ...
On 18 December 2023, a series of mass protests began in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, after the parliamentary and Belgrade City Assembly elections on 17 December. The protests were organised by the opposition Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition, the Students Against Violence (later Struggle) youth organisation, and the ProGlas initiative.