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Americans protesting police violence may find inspiration in the activism of Macedonian citizens in the last years of Communist rule in Yugoslavia.
In August 1987, Communist party leaders imposed, without local input, a major infrastructure project on the village of Vevcani: to redirect water from its springs to other settlements.
The villagers saw the lack of consultation as a betrayal. They also viewed the loss of control over water resources as a threat to their children’s futures.
So they resorted to civil disobedience.
Petar Gosev, the new finance minister, is now faced with the task of resolving these financial problems.
They blocked village streets with makeshift barricades and their bodies. They held up pictures of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who had died seven years earlier, to signal their loyalty to the country’s ideals. Their fight was against the abuse of state power.
The authorities responded by deploying the militia.
They used physical force, including stun batons, to disperse the peaceful demonstrations. Participants, mostly women and children, were physically injure