Curious Protest at the Bosnian television station TV1: As a response to a remark by the Serbian-Bosnian Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, dressed the entire staff in safety vests.
TV-news-presenter with a special wardrobe
“To buy a yellow vest and run with the by Bosnia-Herzegovina”, which was Milorad Dodik, one of three presidents of the ex-Yugoslav country, the television journalists Sladjan Tomic on Tuesday. The employees of the channel TV1 had asked at a press conference in the capital Sarajevo, whether it was more important to talk about the flags in the office of the Bosnian heads of state, as the fact that the petrol prices have been increased since the beginning of this year, already four Times.
Dodik, newly elected representative of the Serbian-born part of the Bosnian population in the state Bureau, is known for his dedication to the secession of Serbian-dominated part of Bosnia, the Republika Srpska from common state. Previously, he had refused to take part in some meetings from a Muslim Bosnians, Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs-existing presidency, because there is no Serbian Flag hinge.
In the country, which is one of the poorest in Europe, the drives, especially the young population in the emigration, games, disputes such as these politicians have an oversized role. The lack of a Serbian Flag in the Bosnian State presidency, for example, a number of meetings prevented already, which, among other things, to the formation of a functioning government after the elections last October, was supposed to go.
Yellow epidemic is on TV!
TV journalist Sladjan Tomic in any case, the President of both of these come proposal took seriously and bought a yellow safety vest. But when he showed up on Wednesday with the vest dressed in front of the building of the state Bureau in Sarajevo, do not let him to the security forces. The led Tomićs colleagues at TV1 just to get also yellow in the West, in order to show solidarity with the journalists. On Wednesday evening, the presenter of TV1’s main news in a yellow vest was also. And on Thursday, all of the employees of the station were wearing the same yellow vests during the work.
A little bit of France in Sarajevo: yellow-West-Protest of Bosnian journalists against Milorad Dodik
“The goal of the carrier of the yellow West is to protest against the humiliation of journalism – and against the humiliation of all the citizens of Bosnia,” said Sladjan Tomic in an interview with Deutsche Welle. “Milorad Dodik personalized with his behavior, the Thinking of the average Bosnian politician about the citizens and their problems. Your and our message to him is that the brazen humiliation of journalists and their profession must end.”
Tomić is sceptical about whether the wider Bosnian population, as in France, the actions of the local yellow West connect. “I think, more yellow in the West, it will not give in Bosnia. And for a number of reasons. One of the citizens ‘ uprising in 2014. At that time, there have been Attempts, from dissatisfaction with politicians to block roads. But these politicians oppressed the Protest by the police, who prevented since then, every new Flare-up. This society is so preoccupied with ethno-national issues, protests grow over the ethnic borders,” says Tomić.
Yellow West, the television journalist and his colleagues still continue to work – to show on the one hand, their Protest, to remember on the other hand, the elected politicians of your country, remember that you bear responsibility for Bosnia and its citizens.