Several thousand people marched through central Belgrade during the sixth #1in5Million protest on Saturday, following speeches by actor Branislav Trifunovic and Kosovo Serb politician Rada Trajkovic.

Trifunovic told the crowd that a group of people from the town of Kraljevo was walking the 170 kilometres to Belgrade to attend a January 16 gathering to mark the anniversary of the killing of Kosovo Serb opposition leader Oliver Ivanovic. “Leave your whistles at home that day, bring candles,” he said. The group from Kraljevo marched in a protest in the town of Milanovac on Saturday evening.

Trifunovic said protests were being held in Kragujevac, Kursumlija and Nis and were being planned to be held in Novi Sad and Pozega.

Trajkovic, who heads the European Movement in Kosovo NGO, told the crowd that Oliver Ivanovic was killed to show that Serbs and Albanians can’t live together and that demarcation is the future.

“Even being dead he showed them because his Albanian neighbours came out to mourn him and the plan by (Serbia and Kosovo Presidents) Vucic and Thaci became impossible,” she said. “We want the Serbs not to fear other Serbs and since Vucic has been in power we do fear the Serbs,” she said.

The column stopped in front of the public broadcaster RTS building to demand the dismissal of CEO Dragan Bujosevic and news editor in chief Nenad Lj. Stefanovic for, as they put it, embarrassing their profession. Torches were lit and a banner saying ‘It Has Begun’ was put up.

The crowd of protesters took 25 minutes to pass by the RTS building, several people wrote on their Twitter accounts.

The Serbian state TV (RTS) reported on the protest in the 12th minute of its main evening news, showing some footage of Trajkovic and Trifunovic speaking and of the protest march and reporting some of the demands by the protesters.

The protests were launched under the slogan No to Bloody Shirts following the assault on opposition leader Borko Stefanovic. The demands now include at least five minutes of air time on the main evening news on the Serbian state TV (RTS), equal air time for all politicians, finding the people who killed Oliver Ivanovic and ordered the attack on journalist Milan Jovanovic along with the dismissals of Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and RTS CEO Dragan Bujosevic.