What does "plenum" (assembly) mean?
This is a public meeting where everybody is invited.
The plenum is a parliament for all members of society
It is an open place for discussion without restrictions and without hierarchies.
The plenum has procedures but it does not have leaders.
The plenum is open to everybody
Everybody has the right to vote and the right to participate.
It is not only for deputies of governement or for organisations
Everybody is equal, it is a place without restrictions and belongs to all of us.
One person, one voice. We take turns for speaking.
There are no delegation, spokeperson or representative.
If there is a need for public announcement, somebody can propose to do it
and it must be agreed by everybody.
We can vote for or against something. Decisions are made by majority vote.
We all know that they are systematically trying to destroy the unity of people
who started those protests, who are hungry, by criminalisation, politisations and manipulations.
We are aware of it and that is the reason why we have no leaders and we all sit here together
and make decisions together.
This is why it is a public meeting where everybody is invited.
We support the protests in all the other cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Peaceful protests are continuing in Tuzla
The parliament of Canton Tuzla has all the mechanisms which obliges it to continue
making the city function.
We demand:
First, that the parliament of Tuzla guarantiees that the protesters will be safe.
Secondly, that the parliament uzla ensures the continuity of the functioning of the city.
Third, that on March 1st at the latest, the parliament of Tuzla elects a city goverment
of the city, made up of experts who are not member of any political parties.
I am the president of the organisation "Velika djeca".
I demand amnesty of all the protesters who were arrested
If the court proves that somebody burnt or looted our property,
this person should take responsibility in front of the law.
I would like that everybody who talks first tell their names,
because we should take responsibility for our own words,
so that they don't say tomorrow "Somebody said..."
So my name is Emina Boslovadzic, I represent the workers of the ruined companies
I am responsible for everything that I've said.
I've heard yesterday that the president of parliament Sladjan Ilic said,
that he talked with the representatives of the union.
I'm afraid that it is that union that abandonned us
not three days ago but ten years ago.
My name is Vladimir Ikic. I believe everybody knows me.
I represent civilian victims of war in Tuzla.
We haven't participated in the recent protests because we are all invalids
but we came today to support with our heart all what is going on.
I'm the organiser of the protests, I can prove it.
How it started is all recorded on camera, on the same one that is recording now.
Who did I call and how did we act:
I first contacted the chief of police to meet us in order to ensure the presence of the police union.
Regardless if it was a revolution or not, I speak as a journalist,
there is record of all communication when the organisation Velika Djeca
joined as organisators of all these protests.
The idea which attracted me and probably the whole world:
Aldin Searanovic and his wife Deniza have been knocking at the door of the institutions
for eight years. This idea attracted Velika Djeca and its members.
I don't demand amnesty for me, I take responsability.
I am not a politician of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I want politicians to stop doing this to us.
We started this assembly, we are legitimate founders and all of you here are as well
and that's what attracted me.
There is a recording of all I said to Aldin,
I take my responsibilities for having done this.
Together with Aldin, I am the organisator. I hope to see Aldin here at the next assembly.
Aldin and all his relatives and friends. I demand that those who endangered this take responsibility.
I don't demand amnesty for me, I take responsability.
We are all organisators.
We took to the streets to provoke a snowball effect.
We were in the streets, first because we are hungry, and second
because the politicians and the police are breaking the laws and constitution of this country.
When I go to hospital, I'm never sure if I really need medecine,
or if it's only the doctor who wants to buy a new car!
It is not surprising that this is happening.
But the new governement will bring us nothing,
it will lead us from one cage to another, like in the rest of the world.
There were thousands of revolutions, people burned and killed, and nothing changed.
On the second day, the police brought us to a street passage
and beat us up, I have some bruises to prove it.
They used the fact that we are a spontaneous, not organised group of people.
We function like this because we are not organised,
we are trying to organise ourselves
We demand the resignation of the police chief and minister.
We are not in the legal position to give amnesty to the people, we demand that they get amnesty.
I want to tell you something: you are mixing everything together, like in a big pot,
without any idea what fits together.
It does not work like that, you don't know how the police functions.
I was a policeman. And it is not the truth that the police is not allowed to do that.
I don't want to give you a lecture on everything they are allowed to do.
There was abuse, but from both sides
Let us leave this to competent authorities, as long as everything is transparent.
If I was the one who broke into a shop, I should receive law procedures, and not amnesty.
They accuse us of wanting to bring the country to collapse,
by asking for the resignation of the government,
that is why we should demand the continuity of institutions.
The canton can regulate this in one day if they want.