{"id":7243,"date":"2009-09-07T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2009-09-07T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T23:29:09","slug":"free-rata-tadej-ivan-sanja-and-nicola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7243","title":{"rendered":"Free Rata, Tadej, Ivan, Sanja and Nicola!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Belgrade, Serbia, five anarchists — Ratibor Trivunac (28), Tadej Kurepa (24), Ivan Vulovi\u0107 (24), Sanja \u0110oki\u0107 (19) and Nikola Mitrovi\u0107 (29) — have been arrested and charged with the crime of ‘international terrorism’ by Serbian authorities. (Another person, Ivan Savi\u0107 (25), is wanted by police but remains ‘at large’.) Police accuse the six of throwing five Molotov cocktails at the Greek Embassy in Belgrade on August 25 — an action later claimed on behalf of a previously-unknown group called “Black Elijah” (?). The group stated that the action was taken in solidarity with Greek anarchist Thodoros Iliopoulos<\/a>, until recently on a hunger strike in a Greek prison, one of the last of the individuals arrested as a result of the uprisings in Greece in December 2008. (Note that protest and resistance continues in Greece, as do attempts by authorities to repress dissent: the blog After the Greek Riots<\/a> provides an excellent source of infos in English.)<\/p>\n

All six of those identified by authorities appear to be members of the anarcho-syndicalist group ‘Anarhosindikalisti\u010dke inicijative’<\/a> (ASI), a member of the anarcho-syndicalist international, the International Workers’ Association (AIT-IWA<\/a>). Further, the ASI has been functioning as the IWA Secretariat for the previous few years, and one of those arrested, Ratibor Trivunac, as its General Secretary.<\/p>\n

All five are currently being detained for a period of 30 days while police, presumably, assemble the case against them — such as it is. The accused deny the charges, and the ASI have stated that the group’s focus is upon (re-)building a radical labour movement in Serbia, not throwing stuff at Embassies.<\/p>\n

The Serbian state has no official representation in Melbourne; the Embassy is located in Canberra, and there is a Consulate in Sydney.<\/p>\n

More generally, while the ‘ideological state apparatus’ has almost invariably regarded ‘anarchism’ as being synonymous with ‘terrorism’ (see<\/em> : ‘Daggers, Rifles and Dynamite: Anarchist Terrorism In Nineteenth Century Europe\u2019, Terrorism and Political Violence<\/em>, Vol.16, No.1, Spring 2004, pp.116-153 for background and Nightmares of Anarchy: Language and Cultural Change, 1870-1914<\/em>, William M. Phillips, Bucknell University Press, 2004 on the early evolution of this propaganda, especially in North America), the War On Terror\u2122 has provided a very useful political context in which to further extend already routine, and occasionally violent, repression of ‘progressive’ social movements in the West. (Violence and repression which forms a routine part of daily life in the Majority World\/Global South.)<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Anarchism and Terrorism (In the Real World)<\/a> (May 6, 2009) | Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian\u2019s Reply to Terrorology by James L. Gelvin<\/a> (Terrorism and Political Violence<\/em>, Vol.20, No.4, 2008 (563\u2013581)) (May 6, 2009)<\/p>\n

Statement of Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative on arrests of their members<\/a> (September 6, 2009) | IWA-AIT Secretariat arrested by Serbian authorities<\/a> (September 4, 2009)<\/p>\n

Anti-fascists attacked in Belgrade<\/a> (June 14, 2009) | Kosovo, Serbia\u2026 and Melbourne (with BONUS! swastikas)<\/a> (February 27, 2008) | Fascism in Serbia, Russia\u2026<\/a> (April 18, 2007).<\/p>\n

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Protest zbog hap\u0161enja anarhista<\/a>
\nBlic Online
\nSeptember 6, 2009<\/p>\n

Oko 20 pristalica Anarhosindikalisti\u010dke inicijative okupilo se danas na Platou ispred Filozofskog fakulteta da bi izrazali solidarnost sa uhap\u0161enima za napad na gr\u010dku ambasadu i zatra\u017eilo njihovo pu\u0161tanje na slobodu.<\/p>\n

Jedan od \u010dlanova te inicijative Milan Stojanovi\u0107 kazao je novinarima da je od pet uhap\u0161enih pod optu\u017ebom za me\u0111unarodni terorizam, \u010detvoro \u010dlanova te inicijative. On je naveo da metode koje su kori\u0161\u0107ene u napadu na ambasadu nisu metode te inicijative i da ne veruje da su njihovi \u010dlanovi to uradili.<\/p>\n

Okupljeni su na protestu ra\u0161irili transparent na kome je pisalo “Ne\u0107e pro\u0107i”.<\/p>\n

Na protestu je pro\u010ditan i proglas u kome se navodi da optu\u017eeni za paljenje ambasade SAD 21. februara “nije pro\u0161ao sa tako o\u0161trim kvalifikacijama za koje se terete njih petoro za bacanja Molotovljevog koktela na ambasadu”. Dodaje se da se oni “terete za me\u0111unarodni terorizam koji je po krivi\u010dnom zakonu Srbije u istoj grupi sa genocidom, zlo\u010dinima protiv \u010dove\u010dnosti, ratnim zlo\u010dinom protiv civilnog stanovni\u0161tva, organizovanjem i podsticanjem na izvr\u0161enje genocida” i sli\u010dno.<\/p>\n

Ministar unutra\u0161njih poslova Ivica Da\u010di\u0107 izjavio je ranije danas da je policija uhapsila osumnji\u010dene za napad na zgradu gr\u010dke ambasade u Beogradu na osnovu dokaza i da nema razloga da zbog toga bilo ko protestuje. Povodom protesta povodom tog hap\u0161enja, on je rekao novinarima “da svako ima pravo da mu se ne\u0161to dopada ili ne ili da protestuje, ali da niko nema pravo da baca ‘molotovljeve koktele’ na strane ambasade”.<\/p>\n

Da\u010di\u0107 je u bazi SAJ-a u Batajnici rekao da je policija spremna da prizna da je pogre\u0161ila ukoliko se u sudskom postupku poka\u017ee da je tako.<\/p>\n

Policija je pre dva dana uhapsila petoro osumnji\u010denih za napad Molotovljevim koktelima na zgradu Ambasade Gr\u010dke u Beogradu.<\/p>\n

Uhap\u0161eni su aktivisti Anarhosindikalne inicijative Ratibor Trivunac (28), Tadej Kurepa (24), Ivan Vulovi\u0107 (24), Sanja \u0110oki\u0107 (19), Nikola Mitrovi\u0107 (29) dok je, tako\u0111e osumnji\u010deni Ivan Savi\u0107 (25) u bekstvu.<\/p>\n

“Istra\u017eni sudija Okru\u017enog suda u Beogradu pokrenuo je istragu i odredio pritvor do 30 dana peto\u010dlanoj grupi osumnji\u010denoj za napad na zgradu Ambasade Gr\u010dke u Beogradu”, izjavila je ju\u010de potparolka tog suda Ivana Rami\u0107 i dodala da je osumnji\u010denima pritvor odre\u0111en zbog postojanja opasnosti da bi boravkom na slobodi mogli uticati na svedoke.<\/p>\n