During the student uprising, Serbia also received real ones political prisoners, whose lives were changed forever. The members of the Movement of Free Citizens survived a life-threatening drama - persecution, imprisonment, were under house arrest for days, and for some of them, such as Marija Vasic for several days it was not even known where they were or if they were alive.
All because of the video published by the tabloids about the alleged organization of a coup d'état and terrorist aspirations in front of a large student assembly protest on March 15th in Belgrade.
It turned out, and only months later, that the Security Information Agency allegedly obtained the video because a member of parliament from the PSG was on their monitoring measures. Ana Oreg. For the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands this Thursday, she talks for the first time in detail about everything she went through.
Back to the nineties
When the recording of the conversation in the premises of the PSG in Novi Sad appeared on regime television, she says that she did not think for a moment that it was created, as it turned out, as a result of surveillance on her.
"I said to myself: there's no way it's me! Regardless of what they did to me some miracles really happened during this periodnot situations, which I attributed to the paranoia in which we all live. Calling you backphone has not been unusual for me for a long time, that's all almost everyone regrets," she says, adding that she was in complete shock.
Her example justifiably raises doubts that there may be many more people in this country on similar measures.
"After what happened to me, I am convinced that I am not alone," she adds. "Now we have a formal document that shows what the BIA actually does, and which also confirms that we are back in the nineties. Maybe it is not appropriate, and maybe it is - this is what I will say: Stambolić and Ćuruvija were involved in such measures!"
Playing the country
When they broadcast the footage, the regime television stations claimed that one of the participants in the conversation had recorded it and delivered it to them, because he did not "want to overthrow the state".
"Nonsense, like everything else," Oreg replies to this possibility. "It just shows that they were aware that the wiretapping was illegal. In what parallel universe do the tabloids have an advantage over the prosecution? It's playing the state."
Read the entire conversation with Ana Oreg in the new "Vremen" from Thursday (November 14) or subscribe to the digital edition
