With the second fall of Smederevo, on June 20, 1459, Serbia fell under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled it completely until the uprising of 1815, and formally until the return of Serbian statehood at the Berlin Congress held from June 13th to July 13th, 1878. At that time, Serbia was completely free of Turkish taxes, among which the blood tax was the most cruel…

The blood tax was actually abduction of male Serbian children at the youngest age, so that they could be trained as warriors ready to die in the service of the Sultan. By restoring statehood, the Serbian people also won freedom for their children. Unfortunately, that freedom lasted for a short time – only until the Second World War and the Nazi program called ‘Lebensborn’, started in 1935 and designed to raise the birth rate of “Aryans”, among others and through the abduction of children from all over Europe, categorized in order to meet the “Aryan criteria”.

It is very interesting how the dirty business of kidnapping and selling children did not end with the war, but vice versa – it was developed in post-war Europe! In the sixties of the twentieth century, in Serbia, under the dictatorship of Josip Broz Tito, scandals about the disappearance of newborn children reappeared. But since then, and under the influence of neoliberal globalization, the situation has dramatically worsened many times over.

Today’s EU has covered up its Nazism with terminology. Now everything is done under the ‘child protection’ slogan, following the horrifying example of the infamous Norwegian program ‘Barnevernet and under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. A similar program was abolished in Russia with the first major amendments to the law when Vladimir Putin came to power.

Along with the noble story of ‘child protection’, monstrous legislation has been introduced in Serbia that allows children to be taken away from their parents and handed over to foreign citizens without the right of parents to even know where their child is! No, this is not an exaggeration, the last case that you can hear about only through movements that really fight for the rights of children and parents, is the case of the missing girl Nevena Stefanović, 5.5 years old. She was first abducted from the family due to alleged poverty, and handed over to a foster family, only to be taken from there in an unknown direction without a trace! In addition to all that, a story is inserted into Serbian history textbooks as blood tax during Ottoman rule, was actually an opportunity to advance within the imperial hierarchy! (Serbian language) Shame is too mild a word in this case.

The Movement Living for Serbia initiated an action to search for children and determine the responsibility of the persons who participated in the abductions. A press conference was organized on Friday, at which Dr. Jovana Stojković, President of the Movement Living for Serbia, Vladimir Čičarević, President of the Parents of Missing Babies of Serbia, Milan Malenović, journalist, lawyer and deputy editor of Tabloid Magazine, and Slobodan Ćustić, an actor and the father of six children explained the situation. Among other things, you will hear the horrifying fact that children are practically sold to foreign citizens at a price set at around 30,000 euros!

On Saturday, the first protest of the parents of missing children was held, and people who, together with the support to unfortunate people, demand the repeal of controversial laws and the elimination of corruption in the judiciary:

Next Saturday, 17.10.2020. at 5pm, in front of the Presidency of Republic of Serbia, a new protest is scheduled against the adoption of the Law on the Rights of the Child and Abuse of Centers for Social Work, and also the Petition for amending this Law and banning the adoption of children by foreign citizens will be signed.

Petition to amend the Family Law

The Movement Living for Serbia is launching a petition to change the Family Law, which would make it impossible to adopt children for foreign citizens and abduction of them due to poverty. We suggest that the money should be directed to the parents, and not to the foster families, but also that the government find a job for parents as soon as possible.

In the Petition, we demand that the postponement of vaccination and the request for information not be treated as neglect of the child!

You will be able to sign the petition in the premises of the Movement Living for Serbia, st. Ustanička 127b, every working day from 4pm to 7pm, as well as at the protest on October 17th at 5pm in front of the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia.

Read the text of the petition here (Serbian language).

I don’t know how far this appeal will reach, but I ask you to share it as far as possible and help stop this unimaginable horror. Only the harsh punishment of criminals who do such things at the local level will take the power out of the hands of greatest criminals who organize all of it.