Threats to Croatian Studies Students - Current Events - Croatia

Students from the Faculty of Humanities announced the continuation of the blockade, which was greeted with applause.

ZAGREB, CROATIA - On Monday the students of the Faculty of Humanities voted to continue the blockade at the plenum.

There was a heated discussion about the repression at the Croatian Studies faculty where students are being directly threatened, and security guards are escorting them out of the faculty. At tomorrow’s press conference of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the students from Croatian Studies will get an opportunity to speak about the human rights violations on their faculty.

The main topic of the plenum was the letter, or proposal sent by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport to all universities. Dean Miljenko Jurkovic, who attended the plenum, said that the initiative by the ministry should be welcomed, which the students answered with disapproval.

The main complaints about the proposal was that it was not understandable and the proposals were not precisely defined, and the credit for the initiative was being wrongly attributed, from the beginning the initiative was exclusively on the students.

However, it seems that the students will be able to use this in further negotiations with the ministry.

When the dean complained that the issue has “become serious”, professor Andrea Zlatar said that the “student initiative has been serious from the beginning”. The council of professors concluded today that they support the blockade, but called the students to cancel it so that classes can continue.

“Things are not done because they have their end, but because people believe in them” said Zlatar, indirectly commenting the dean’s request, which the students loudly applauded.

Even though students in Split and Rijeka voted for a de-blockade, the students at Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences continues, and so far they have gathered 50,000 signatures for their petition, 30,000 of which they gathered in Zagreb.