Union lashes out at

Union lashes out at “undemocratic behaviour”
Beta - October 30, 2003

BELGRADE -- Thursday – The Alliance of Independent Serbian Unions has accused the Serbian authorities of displaying a lack of democracy in today’s violent clash between union members and police in front of the Serbian Parliament building.

Union leader Milenko Smiljanic told journalists that all parliamentary caucuses had condemned the police reaction and protested against the brutal break-up of a peaceful demonstration.

He said that the protest would resume tomorrow, but would not give details except to say that it would “extended to the whole of Serbia”.

Smiljanic accused the head of the parliament’s Security Committee, Dragan Sutanovac, of misleading MPs about the number of injured protesters and denied his claim that the workers were drunk and drugged.