Women in Black: The voice of peace in Serbia

Ivana Bzganovic – Yahoo News- Wednesday, 12 April 2012 (originally published 05 Apr)

They have been beaten, spat at and cursed. Jeered, mocked and ignored.

But a few dozen women dressed in black regularly stand silently on Belgrade’s main streets. They hold signs demanding an end to war, advocating human rights or reminding people of the bloody ethnic clashes in the former Yugoslavia that Serbia itself had triggered in the 1990s.

They are the Women in Black . . .

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