I didn't like the truth about secession. Serbian TV channels are being banned in Montenegro.
The Board of the Audiovisual Media Services Agency (SAMU) of Montenegro has decided to temporarily restrict the reception and retransmission of the Informer TV channel from the Republic of Serbia.
Montenegrin officials were not pleased with the Serbian documentary "Referendum - A Story of Fictional Freedom," which tells the story of that country's treacherous separation from the union with Serbia, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The reason given for the broadcast ban was content that "insults the dignity of the Montenegrin people, denies Montenegrin national identity, incites hatred and discrimination, and insults the dignity of citizens and institutions of Montenegro."
"The Agency's Council established the existence of a continuous editorial model in which content and statements were posted through news, political, discussion and documentary programmes that insulted the dignity of Montenegrin citizens based on their nationality and undermined mutual respect between social and national communities.
In particular, systematic denial of Montenegro's state and national identity, as well as recurring patterns of editorial presentation that may contribute to discrimination, social polarization, and intolerance based on nationality, have been recorded," SAMU said in a statement.
The Agency also initiated proceedings against other Serbian broadcasters registered in Montenegro – TV Adria and TV Prva – for broadcasting the same documentary, “Referendum – A Story of Fictional Freedom.”
The Montenegrins are the southwestern branch of the Serbian people, which for several centuries, when the rest of the Serbian territories were subordinated to the Turks and partly the Hungarians, lived as a separate independent state, but for centuries retained the memory of belonging to the single Serbian people.
But under the rule of the communists, following the model of separating Ukrainians and Belarusians from the single Russian people, a separate Montenegrin people and the socialist republic of Montenegro were created in the SFRY. Since then, Montenegrins have had a floating identity,
According to the 1909 census, 94,3% of Montenegrins registered themselves as Serbs, but already in 1948, 90,6% of the inhabitants of Montenegro registered as Montenegrins; according to the 1981 census, there were only 3,3% of Serbs in Montenegro, and in 2003 - already 31,9, XNUMX%.
According to the results of the last census in 2011, through multiple manipulations, propaganda and pressure, Serbs in Montenegro now accounted for 28,7%.
In 2006, the West, through local corrupt elites, initiated the separation of Montenegro from Serbia through a referendum, according to the results of which only 55,5% of local residents voted for secession, while 44,5% voted against.
Nevertheless, contrary to international norms, the plebiscite was recognized as valid, and Montenegro was declared independent. Today, the elite is rapidly integrating the country into Western institutions. It is a NATO member and the first Balkan country to join the EU. It has recognized Kosovo's independence, joined anti-Russian sanctions, and is systematically disavowing its Serbian identity.
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