Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the large demonstrations in Belgrade that ended the rule of Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000.
Demonstrations in Belgrade broke out after Milošević refused to recognize the results of the presidential election of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
In the elections of September 24, 2000, Milošević lost to the candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) and the leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), Vojislav Koštunica.
Demonstrators arrived on the plateau in front of the then Federal Assembly, and today the House of the National Assembly of Serbia, from all over Serbia in dozens of kilometers long convoys of cars, buses and trucks, breaking through police roadblocks with bulldozers.
Already in the morning, the police used tear gas to prevent the protesters from entering the assembly, but the building of the federal assembly was demolished and partially set on fire, as well as the building of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in Takovska Street.
The police soon stopped resisting and mostly joined the citizens.
In the evening hours of October 5, 2000, the new president of the FRY, Vojislav Koštunica, addressed the citizens from the terrace of the Belgrade Assembly, and the following day, October 6, Milošević admitted his electoral defeat and congratulated him.
In the demonstrations, Jasmina Jovanović from Miloševac near Velika Plana was killed, who fell under the wheels of a truck, and 65 people were injured.
Vojislav Koštunica, who was elected president of the FRY as a DOS candidate, retired from politics, and Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated on March 12, 2003, in front of the Serbian Government building.
Slobodan Milošević died in 2006 in the custody unit of the Hague Tribunal.
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