By Jovana Gec, AP Serbian authorities on Sunday displayed many of around 13,500 weapons they say people have been handed over since this month’s mass shootings, including hand grenades, automatic weapons, and anti-tank rocket launchers. The authorities have declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to hand over unregistered weapons or face prison sentences as … Read more
Serbia is awash in weapons, many of them left over from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. It now ranks third in the world for gun ownership, with an estimated 39 firearms per 100 people, trailing the United States with 121 and Yemen with 53, according to the 2018 Small Arms Survey. Almost 95 percent of gun … Read more
By Jovana Gec and Dustan Stojanovic, AP The first shooting left Serbia weeping. The second set off waves of soul-searching in a deeply divided nation, awash in weaponry, where war criminals are glorified and memories run deep of years of civil war. Two mass killings in two days. Nineteen people dead and 21 injured. “We … Read more