The fall of Slobodan Milosevic

Witness History

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On 5 October 2000, protests in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade spiralled into an attack on the parliament building. Hours later President Slobodan Milosevic stood down. Mark Lowen spoke to Srdja Popovic - one of the leaders of the student-led opposition movement - in 2010. (Photo: Demonstrators and police at the Belgrade parliament. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd science.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this edit.
0:05.1	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.7	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah, perhaps possibly the most disgusting thing I've heard this way.
0:13.6	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here I'm actually holding a doughnut.
0:18.4	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:26.5	Hello, and thank you for downloading this edition
0:29.1	of the Witness History Podcast.
0:31.3	Mark Lohan takes us back to 2000 when protesters
0:34.8	dorm the Yugoslav Parliament in Belgrade.
0:37.9	Hours later, President Slobodan Milosevic stood down.
0:43.4	The 5th of October 2000.
0:45.7	An election has just been held in Yugoslavia.
0:48.6	People don't believe that the serving President Slobodan Milosevic
0:52.1	has won the number of votes he claims.
0:54.8	Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest.
1:00.0	The student-led opposition movement,
1:03.9	Odpov, or Resistance, is demanding an end to the Milosevic government.
1:09.0	Sergej Popovic was one of the founders of Odpov.
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