Word: palanka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: As protests continued peacefully in Belgrade, Socialists in another disputed Yugoslavian town made their defiance of democracy official -- and backed it up with violence. In Smederevska Palanka, 50 miles south of Belgrade, Socialists held the town council's inaugural session in a town hall ringed by police, who kept opposition deputies outside. After holding their own assembly in front of the building to the cheers of hundreds of supporters, the opposition members began a march through the center of town. They were met with the batons of riot police. "Without any provocation or warning, policemen, mostly local, clubbed...
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