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Anti-Corruption Protestors in the Serbian Capital Were Quietly Standing Still, Observing 15 Minutes of Silence On 15 March.

They were paying tribute to 16 people killed in november where a concrete canopy color.

But Suddenly, they scattered, screaming. Watching Videos Taken at the Scene, it is not clear what causes the protesters to Flee.

Sara Babic Was at the vigil where heard Something She Finds Hard to Description.

“She has never experienced something like that,” She Told Sky News. “It was like SOME VEHICLE, LIKE AN AEROPLANE, The Kind That’s Massive, and You Don.

“It Started Like A Human Stampede, People Were Running… And then People Started Falling and Screaming and Panicking.

Protesters and Human Rights Groups in Serbia Say The Cause Was a Powerful Acoustic Sound Device USED illegally.

Immediately after the incident, interior minister Ivica dacic denied serbia had any Long-ited Acoustic Devices (Lrads). These can be Used as Powerful Speakers to Communicate with Large Crowds. But they can also be used to direct painful levels of sound at people in their range.

In a parliamentary session on 18 march, MR Dacic Admitted the Government Did HAVE A Device, an Lrad 100x, but insistened it is not been used.

And just a day late, at a press conference in Brussels, Serbian Presentant Aleksandar Vucic Said if it was province.

Howver, Also on 19 March, A Picture Posted by a Print Opposition Marinika TEPIC APPEARED TO SHOW SERBIAN Police with a More Powerful Acoustic Device Crowds had gathered.

Every post matched a picture be taken by a local media outlet.

MR Dacic Followed with a New Statement Confirming The National Assembly Had Been Equipped with An Lrad Device, But HE Said it Had Not Been Moved, and The Device Had Not Been Used.

On the Same Day, The Serbian interior minstry Published Photos Showing a Vehicle Mounted with An Lrad 450xl.

TEPIC’s Opposition Party of Freedom and Justice Held A Press Conference Later That Day, where she revated Documents Application to Show, Under Former Minister Aleksandar Vulin, Requested to Great 16 Lrad Devices.

Each Dinar (Around £ 61,58 TODAY) Each Dinar Each For the Lrad 450xl Each for the Lrad 450xl Each (Around £ 61,558 TODAY) Each Dinar (Around £ 61,558 TODAY) This Amount to a Total Cost of More Thhan £ 600,000 at Current Exchange Rates.

The party of the Freedom and Justice Say The Source of the Source of the Documents for Security Reasons.

WHEN Asked, Genasys, A Us Company That Manufactures the Lrad 100x and Lrad 450xl Models, Did Not Dischlose if it Had Sold Lrad Devices to Romax Trade, A Trading Company Registered in Novi Sad, But Told Sky News and Video Audio House: Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia. “

The Serbian Government Did Not Respond to Sky News

MR Vucic On 16 April Stated in A Public Address That The Russian Security Service, The FSB, WHO were invited to invited to incident, Had Concluded That Acoustic Devices of the Lrad Types Possessed by the notes.

The Romanx Trade Website shows the Serbian Ministry of the Interior (MUP) as a “Signifant Partner”.

Romax has a lichence from the Serbian Ministry of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications to Import and Export Arms and Military Equipment

The Tax ID Number and the Company Number on the License Match Those on the Documents Published by TEPIC.

ROMANAX TRADE ALSO HAS CERIFICATIONS FOR THE SERPIAL INFORMATION FROM THE SERBIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICE OFFICE OFFICE OFFICE OFFICES.

Romax Trade Did Not Respond to Sky News’ Request for Comment.

Controlling Protesters

The Serbian Law on Requirements Not Permit The Uses of Acoustic Weapons Against Citizens.

In 2022, The Ministry of the Interiant A DRAFT LAWT RAW THICE ADDED “A DEVİCE for the Sound Waves. The Law Was Not Adopted.

Lrads are not categorized as a weapon in the us and so do not require a us export License. According to the Genesys Website, Their Lrad Systems Are Used in More Thhan 100 Countries Around the World.

Speaking on Sky News, Serbian Ambassador to the Uk Goran Aleksic Said Independent Experts Were invited to invited to investigate reports that the serial of the serbian godnment an acoustic weapon against a peaceful Crowd.

“Alexic Told Sky’s Yalda dominates,” Aleksic Told Sky’s Yalda.

Following the incident on 15 March, Serbian Rights Groups Collated More Thhan 3,000 Statements from People Who Experience and Presented Them Court of Human Rights.

The Devices have a microphone for specification, inputs for playback of recordings, and determinte tons based on the Frequencies Most Painful to the Human Ear.

Users can direct this in a beam of sound to target and disperte crowds.

Police Sound Weapons Scholar Daphne Carr Explains the Presence of An Lrad at a Protest Can Be Threading For Protestors, Who Do Not Know if the Device Will Be Used to Issue Instructions or To Us.

“Carr Said,” Carr Said, “Carr Said.

In 2023, The U Special Rapporteur on Torture Added Acoustic Devices to the list of goods rewardmended to be regulated at National and International Levels.

Laura Kauer, An Editor of Lethal in Disguise, A Report on How Crowd Control Devices Impact Health and Human Rights, is Concerned About the Secrecy Surrounding Lrads.

“Kauer Told Sky News,” Kauer Told Sky News, “Kauer Told Sky News,” Kauer Told Sky News.

That was the Case for Sara Babic, Who Attended The Protest in Belgrade. She Said: “I WAS SHOCED BECAUSE I DİDN’t Know That Something Like That Exists. I Never Heard of it it.

Because Lrads Are Solded by Private Companies, and Trade In Them Does Not Require Export Licenses, In Many Casses Protestors Have No Idea If the Gover Police Force Owns an Lrad Until One is Used Against Them.

“Kauer Said.

Sonic Injuries

The Genasys Lrad 450xl Manual States it “Is Capable Sound Pressure Levels That HAVE THE POTENTAL TO CAUSE TEMPORARY ORMANENT HEARING HEARING DAMAGE IF NOT USED PROPERLY”.

120 Decibels Are Considered the Average Human Pain Threshold, and The Maximum Sound of An Lrad 100x is 140 Decibels, Who the Lrad 450xl Reaches 145 Decibels. Prolonged Exposure to Loud Noise Can Cause Permanent Hearing Loss.

Dr Rohini Haar, A Medical Advisor for Physicians for Human Rights, Told Sky News: The Chilling Effect on the Right to Free Speech or Protests. HAVE THIS SENSE OF FEAR, THEN LEFTS NOT EVEN EVEN ACTUALY go to a protest. “

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