The protests, which have been ongoing in Tuzla for the past two days and spread yesterday to other B&H cities, will continue today throughout our country.
After yesterday’s day-long protest in Tuzla, which escalated in confrontations between police and citizens, and the protest in Sarajevo that led to clashes between police and citizens, today Bosnians and Herzegovinians will go out on the street again to demand their basic rights.
As of now, protests have been announced in Tuzla, Sarajevo, Prijedor, Bugojno, Orašje, Lukavac, Banja Luka, Zenica, Tešanj, Gornji Vakuf, Gračanica, Olovo, Vitez, Bihać, Mostar, Kakanj, Brčko, Cazin, Konjic, Sanski Most and Jajce.
A map of where the protests will take place can be found here: http://www.klix.ba/gradjanski-bunt.
The mass protest began two days ago in front of the government building of Tuzla Canton, where disenfranchised workers from several companies, unemployed people and other Tuzla citizens took to the streets.
Protests started to escalate already on the first day. Protestors three rocks, eggs and torches at the Tuzla Canton government building, and the police used tear gas. People were arrested and sustained injuries, and the same scenario took place on the streets of Tuzla yesterday.
A large group of citizens gathered. They set fire to containers and rubber tires, and the first floor of the Tuzla government building is destroyed.
The Department of Emergency Medical Services of Tuzla received 102 police officers by 20:00 last night, who sustained minor and major injuries. 28 citizens were also received in the ER with minor injuries.
The events in Tuzla encouraged other citizens of B&H to express their many years of dissatisfaction, so yesterday citizens of Sarajevo, Zenica, Bihać, Kakanj, Mostar and Prijedor took to the streets.
In Sarajevo, a smaller group of citizens clashed with police in front of the building of the Sarajevo Canton government, and the protestors set fire to several containers and kept a blockade of traffic for several hours in Skenderija.
Protestors also threw eggs and rocks at the building of the Canton Sarajevo government.
The protests that are shaking our country these past two days are a clear sign that citizens have had enough of two decades of bad government and social insensitivity, and that it is time for radical change.
(Source: klix.ba)
