Sandulović: Vučić is beating up the youth in Belgrade today, just as he persecuted Albanians in Kosovo, Bosniaks and Croats
Express newspaper
20/08/2025 13:30
Serbian opposition figure and Republican Party leader Nikola Sandulović has expressed disappointment with the citizens of Serbia, accusing them of their long silence over crimes committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.
He told Serbs that they should not be surprised by the violence that Aleksandar Vučić’s regime is exerting today against their children, when they themselves have remained silent for decades in the face of atrocities against others, reports Vijesti.ba
“Serbs!!! What is not clear?! Are you wondering why Vučić is beating and arresting your children?!” Sandulović wrote in a published statement, commenting with shock on the Serbian public’s reaction to the police violence currently taking place on the streets of Serbian cities.
He reminded his citizens of their silence when faced with the terrible events in the region, where, according to him, Aleksandar Vučić had an active and direct role.
Sandulović mentioned the destruction of Vukovar and the massacres that followed, where 1,798 civilians were killed, including 86 children, and where Vučić, Nikolić and Šešelj marched on the city after ethnic cleansing.
He also spoke about the exodus of over 200.000 Serbs from Croatia, following the attempt to create a “Greater Serbia” with its capital in Knin – an idea strongly supported by Vučić, according to him.
He criticized the silence of the Serbian majority towards the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, one of the longest in modern history, in which 14.011 people were killed, including 1.601 children, and over 56.000 civilians were injured or maimed. Sandulović claimed that Vučić himself was standing with a gun in his hands above the city, eating “cut leeks” with Šešelj on the hill.
Regarding the Srebrenica genocide, where over 8.000 Muslim men and boys between the ages of 12 and 77 were massacred, Sandulović accuses Vučić of calling from the podium of the Serbian Parliament at the time for the killing of 100 Muslims for every Serb killed.
“You were silent when Albanians in Kosovo were persecuted, imprisoned, beaten and killed for years, and now you are wondering why Vučić is doing the same to your children in Belgrade?!” he asks. “Now you feel the pain that you have denied to others.”
In his message to Serbian society, Sandulović said that now is the time for Serbs themselves to feel the weight of the suffering they have caused others through supporting a regime that brought pain to the region.
“What did you expect? That he wouldn’t do in Serbia what he has done for decades in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo? Now that he is beating your children, is your conscience waking up?!” he wrote.
According to him, “the circle of hell that began with Milosevic, Seselj, Nikolic, Vucic and Vulin is now being closed in Serbia – with divine justice.”
Nikola Sandulović is one of the most vocal critics of Aleksandar Vučić’s regime. On January 3, 2024, he was arrested by the Security Agency (BIA) and, according to his lawyer, Čedomir Stojković, was brutally beaten for four hours by a group of about 15 masked people.
His arrest came after a video was released showing him laying flowers at the Jashari family memorial in Kosovo. According to authorities, he was charged with inciting national and religious hatred, but his lawyer stated that his only “crime” was paying homage to the Albanian victims.