Citizens who protested in Cetinje yesterday asked Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić and Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović to resign and "accept responsibility for repression and unprecedented violence against their citizens."
In the "Belvedere Proclamation", they also demanded the resignation of representatives of the security sector due to, as they stated, the abuse of police and military resources against their own citizens, in favor of a church organization of a foreign country.
"The management of the RTCG to resign because it knowingly misinformed about the alleged attacks by citizens on the police with firearms, thereby intimidating the public. The officials of the Cetinje URA, whose party president approved the brutal confrontation with their fellow citizens, trampled on all the principles of the original sovereignist and civil party, and put the party and the state at the service of the great state politics of Serbia and the Church of Serbia, to resign and show that they are not pawns of the anti-civilization policy that their chief Abazović implements", stated in the proclamation read by Svetlana Pajović.
The proclamation was read near the Adžić curve, where the participants of the protest came by walking from Dvorski trg, where several speakers addressed the audience.
The gathered citizens on Dvorski trg carried Montenegrin and Komit flags, as well as banners "Freedom does not extinguish with tear gas", "Heart for Cetinje", "No excuse for abuse. Montenegro from not Serbia", "We don't want war, we want our freedom&integrity"...
Historian Boban Batrićević told the crowd on Dvorski trg that seven days had passed since the "treasonous government conquered Cetinje and the unprecedented aggression on the capital", which the crowd greeted by chanting "treason".
"On the orders of a foreign country, they bombarded the city with chemical weapons, shock bombs, rubber bullets, batons, stationing thousands of policemen, cars and excavators. Tear gas and terror were the language they spoke - the language of force and the language of hatred... They failed to break us," said Batrićević.
Art historian Anđa Kapičić said that "the pursuit of peaceful demonstrations by citizens left a strong aftertaste".
"Only because they did not accept that the Pope of the Serbian Church Joanikije Mićović, unworthy of the throne of Seti Petar Cetinje, who would like to demolish the Mausoleum on Lovćen, would be enthroned in our Montenegrin sanctuary...".
She pointed out that it is not true that they are defenders of criminal structures, because "no one has ever led them by the leash".
She said that she will not allow drowning in the Serbian world.
The crowd chanted Belveder, E viva Montenegro, but also insults against Abazović and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
The president of the Democratic Union of Albanians, Mehmed Zenka, said that he was not in Cetinje on September 5, "but his blood was there."
"I did not come here to defend anyone's policy. Don't think that you don't have Albanians behind you".
The writer Andrej Nikolaidis said that justice and truth do not reside in an ethnic community, but in an ethical community:
"The politics of blood and soil was defeated here in 1945. Montenegrin anti-fascists then drew a path from which there is no turning back. Not brotherhood and unity in origin and blood, but brotherhood and unity in adherence to the values we share".
He called on the citizens to "greet", the RTCG "which lied about the shootings at the police and thus tried to justify the government's chemical attack on Cetinje", as well as the DPS, stating that "all this that is happening to us - without them and their adulation of Amfilohij would be possible”:
"If the landing on Rumi had been prevented, there would have been no landing on Cetinje".
Poet Balša Vulević said that they are saying that Cetinje and Montenegro will not give in, and let everyone know that who "sneak at their holy places".
"The occupiers of our sanctuaries should know that the Cetinje Monastery is only ours and must be returned to its historical owners".
The gathering was attended by the clergy of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (CPC), DPS deputies Predrag Bošković, Aleksandra Vuković and Nikola Janović, and Draginja Vuksanović Stanković, Ranko Krivokapić and Mirko Stanić from the SDP.
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