**Post-election "cleanup" in Serbia targets Kosovo and Mladić graffiti**

Since the Student List won Sunday's election, activists and citizens across Serbia have been painting over graffiti and murals, and the targets are no longer just campaign slogans.

In central Belgrade on Thursday, activist Miodrag "Mio" Kapor and associates painted over the slogan "When the army returns to Kosovo" on Sremska Street. Kapor, an energy expert and independent activist, is not part of the Student List and in fact targeted its program too, saying he was removing the Kosovo claim in Serbia's constitution from the platforms of both the outgoing government and the students. He said he waited until after the vote because it was now safer. The move drew a wave of anger and threats online, with some demanding his arrest for "violating the Constitution." Kapor was attacked at a protest in Novi Sad in January after displaying Albanian and Croatian flags.

In Subotica, near the Hungarian border, citizens were filmed painting over a graffiti of General Ratko Mladić and the word "hero." Earlier this month, his mural in Niš was painted over after a student rally in the city and replaced with the slogan "Students Win." The mural read "He who the people remember has not died."

The wider cleanup began earlier in the week. Students in Blockade called on citizens to strip campaign posters and graffiti insulting the students, while citizens' assemblies and environmental group Eko straža repainted walls covered in slogans for Vučić's ruling party, including the Zeleni Venac underpass in Belgrade. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, an NGO backed by Western donors including the US-based Mott Foundation, has long campaigned for the removal of what it calls hate graffiti and murals, with Mladić murals among its main targets.

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