Zoran Cirjakovic
For many, recent images of Syrian refugees stuck alongside Serbian borders present the only link between Syria and Serbia. But the never-ending tragedy in the Levant also has some often neglected or misrepresented Balkan roots.
It has become something of a conventional wisdom that "nonviolent" overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000 - the mass uprising later dubbed the Bulldozer Revolution - provided both the blueprint and the know-how for subsequent "Colour Revolutions", a series of mass pro-democracy movements throughout the former Soviet Union, as well as the Arab Spring.
Zoran Cirjakovic
The suggested narrative is straightforward and compelling. A group of upper middle-class students - Gen X "Hobbits," used laughter to accomplish something that three months of NATO bombing failed a year before - to bring down the Serbian strongman that Time magazine called "the butcher of the Balkans".
"Want to start a revo…
For many, recent images of Syrian refugees stuck alongside Serbian borders present the only link between Syria and Serbia. But the never-ending tragedy in the Levant also has some often neglected or misrepresented Balkan roots.
It has become something of a conventional wisdom that "nonviolent" overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000 - the mass uprising later dubbed the Bulldozer Revolution - provided both the blueprint and the know-how for subsequent "Colour Revolutions", a series of mass pro-democracy movements throughout the former Soviet Union, as well as the Arab Spring.
Zoran Cirjakovic
The suggested narrative is straightforward and compelling. A group of upper middle-class students - Gen X "Hobbits," used laughter to accomplish something that three months of NATO bombing failed a year before - to bring down the Serbian strongman that Time magazine called "the butcher of the Balkans".
"Want to start a revo…