This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to scientist and researcher Yavana Maxich.

She's going to be talking to us about the very tense situation in Serbia. Recently there was two mass shootings in the

space of a few days. In turn there have been huge anti-violence protests which have also kind of coalesced into anti-government protests

as well as that there is the situation in Serbian parts of Kosovo.

Things are very, very tense.

Yavana is going to explain to us what's happening and

how Serbia got to this stage. Support us at patreon.com slash popular Front. Recently there's been a lot of commotion to say the least in Serbia not talking

about Kosovo Serbian parts of Kosovo right now we'll get into that later but in Serbia proper there's been

some situations and there's been large protests threats of violence the government has

been doing some strange thing busting people in there's been mass shootings, it sounds like a big kind of powder keg and everything

has culminated recently and you know things are looking quite unsettled.

Maybe you can just kind of at first, just take us back to where this kind of recent commotion started and what's actually

happening.

Sure.

So first of all, yeah, thank you for having me here. I'm really excited to be able to talk about the situation and kind of hopefully give some insights that will clarify it for people listening in, but essentially the most recent wave of protests, so to say, were triggered by an

event which happened on May 13, so last month, and here a 13-year-old boy murdered nine of his fellow school students

and bodyguard in Belgrade. He used his father's technically legally owned handgun and because he was younger than 14 he was in charge for the crime.

And then one day after a 21-year-old person in Ladenovats, which is a village south of Belgrade,

again went on a shooting spree where he first shot 11 friends who were just having a barbecue and then

continue driving down to other nearby villages shooting at random people. So in total another eight people lost their lives and

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