Nataša Kandić, founder of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), has ignited controversy within Serbia’s ruling circles and pro-government media with a bold suggestion to student protestors. The students have been in a seven-month blockade, protesting against the regime of Aleksandar Vučić, which they describe as “mafia-like and corrupt,” and demanding extraordinary parliamentary elections.
In advice given to the protesting students for June 28, the day of the Serbian Vidovdan festival, the prominent activist wrote: “I want them to lay down the ‘The Flower of Kosovo,’ the symbol of the Serbian genocide against Albanians, on the grounds of the Special Counter-Terrorism Unit in Batajnica on that day.”
Kandić explained that in 2001, the bodies of 75 murdered Albanian children were exhumed there, alongside more than 700 other bodies found in eight mass graves across Serbia. This grim discovery was due to the Serbian state’s operation to transfer the bodies of those killed in Kosovo to Serbia in an attempt to cover up the traces of the crimes.
Following Nataša Kandić’s statement, special television broadcasts took place in Belgrade last Sunday, during which the HLC founder was reportedly “crucified and insulted.”
