(2 Jan 1997) T/I: 11:22:06
Thousands of students, blowing whistles and banging pots and pans together, formed a noisy protest march through the streets of the Serbian capital, Belgrade on Thursday (2/1).
It was the second of what the students hoped would be daily 'noise'
demonstrations designed symbolically to drown out the sound of the
government-aligned Serbian TV news programme which runs at the same time.
In another part of the capital, the Serbian opposition called a mass rally again on the 45th straight day of protests. The protesters marched forward to confront the lines of riot police, but then turned away without incident.
People at the rally greeted with prolonged applause a statement read out from leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Church. In a strongly worded statement church leaders "energetically and publicly condemned" the cancellation by the authorities of sweeping opposition victories in major Serbian towns on November 17, which have sparked unprecedented street demonstrations.
SHOWS:
BELGRADE, SERBIA, 2/1:
00.00 WS crowd in square.
00.06 MS opposition leader Vuk Draskovic and others walking through crowd.
00.11 MS crowd, some holding sparklers.
00.15 CU crowd singing.
00.20 Still of document.
00.24 Still of second document.
00.27 MS church steeple, pans down to show whole church.
00.33 SOT, ENGLISH, MILAN BOZIC, VICE PRESIDENT OF SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENT, "The church was reluctant to take sides, which is normal, nevertheless at the end the church decided that these are not parties which are in question but the electoral will of the people."
00.49 MS Vuk Draskovic, head of Serbian Renewal Movement, seated at desk.
00.52 SOT, ENGLISH, DRASKOVIC, "In the case of implementation of Milosevic's plans to take terrible actions, atrocities against people, nobody can give guarantees people would not reply."
01.14 CU students banging drums.
01.18 CU riot police.
01.21 MS riot police, pans to student steel drum band on van.
01.28
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