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Jovana Gec In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, a mural on the wall of Academy of Dramatic Arts, in Belgrade, Serbia. A #MeToo-like movement is sweeping the strongly patriarchal Western Balkans and activists hope there will be no turning back. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) February 05, 2021 - 7:01 AM BELGRADE, Serbia - A #MeToo-like movement is sweeping the strongly patriarchal Western Balkans and activists hope there will be no turning back. It started with a chilling account of alleged rape and abuse at a high-end acting school in Serbia. This prompted thousands of women in neighbouring countries to speak up â bridging bitter ethnic divisions dating from the wars that broke up Yugoslavia in the 1990s. ....
share Print Serbia continues to reverberate with outrage and sympathy for young women who have come forward this month alleging they were raped as students by a veteran director at his private drama school, setting off an avalanche of #MeToo accounts that challenge Serbian society to fix a broken system. The torrent came after a rising star of international cinema publicly accused the storied mentor and founder of the Stvar Srca acting studio, Miroslav Mika Aleksic, of repeatedly raping her beginning nine years ago, when she was 17. For decades, the 68-year-old Aleksic has worked and hobnobbed with many of Serbia s biggest celebrities. ....
You Are Not Alone : Balkan Women Seize #MeToo Moment By Marion DAUTRY 01/27/21 AT 8:35 AM When a Serbian actress accused her former drama teacher of rape last week, the reaction was seismic: thousands of women across the Balkans have since come forward with their own stories, united under the banner You are not alone . Activists hope the outpouring will leave lasting change in a region where patriarchal attitudes dominate and where previous Me Too movements against sexual violence and harassment have been limited in scale. Much of the catharsis is taking place online, thanks to a new Facebook page called Nisam Trazila, which means I didn t ask for it , created by Bosnian actresses. ....
The news of the arrest of the famous director, screenwriter and acting teacher Miroslav Mika Aleksic has hit Serbia like a bombshell. Three young women who attended his prestigious acting school in Belgrade have alleged that he raped or sexually harassed them. The 68-year-old denied the accusations. Aleksic is accused of having committed eight felonies of rape and seven prohibited sexual acts since 2008. Prosecutors have not yet charged him. Serbian actress Milena Radulovic made the allegations in the Serbian daily Blic, last weekend. “I was a student in Mika Aleksic’s school for six years, when he first raped me, she said in the interview. I was 17. It didn t happen only once. It was repeated. Mika made sure that it happened during the class, in the room next to the one where the other students were, or in the period when work would intensify because of the entrance exam for the Faculty for Dramatic Arts. He left no room for someone to suspect anyt ....