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“We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example.”

- Zoran Bulatovic, a Serbian union official, who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages to show how desperate he and other workers are. “It hurt like hell”, he added.  Mr Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar, southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger. Mr Bulatovic decided to act after his deputy, a single mother of three, said she would chop off her finger. “I could not allow her to do that,” he explained.