Participants: Tahira Mika Tibolt, Maida Bilal

Moderated by: Alma Midžić

For more than 500 days and nights, a group of women from the village of Kruščica blocked a bridge crossing the river of the same name, thereby preventing two hydropower plants from being built.

Believing that women would not be attacked by the security forces, women from the village of Kruščica were the only ones blocking the bridge over the river from August 2017 to December 2018.

Neither police violence nor attempts at intimidation by the investor could make the courageous women give up defending their river. It was only shortly before Christmas 2018 that the women decided to leave the bridge. The relevant court had supported the objections against the planned hydropower plants, bringing the peaceful 18-month protest of the women of Kruščica to a happy end for the time being.