Foundation The movement was founded on 18 April 2018, amidst an informal protest in favour of state support for disabled people. The protest, which was the sixth such protest held that far, became the foundation of The System Kills Us as the demonstrators donned black shirts emblazoned with the movement's name.
April 2018 protests On the 18 April protest, demonstrators went to meet with the opposition
Bulgarian Socialist Party's leader -
Korneliya Ninova. They were denied entry into the nation's
National Assembly, by its government-appointed Deputy-Chairman Emil Hristov. This new movement was formalized into a
non-governmental organization on 10 December 2018, listing Maya Stoitseva as its leader.
May 2020 protests In May 2020, the movement joined forces with
Izpravise.BG, a 'civic platform' led by former Ombudswoman
Maya Manolova to demand that the government adopt a plan to deal with the economic effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria. The two movements held joint protests in Sofia's city centre to this effect.
August 2020 protests On 1 August 2020,
The System Kills Us officially joined the
2020–2021 Bulgarian protests against the government of Prime Minister
Boyko Borisov. They organized a march on PM Borisov's home in
Bankya and later attempted to drive a van into Sofia's central square. The van was blocked from reaching its destination by police forces near
Sofia University's rectorate building.
System Kills Us' spokesperson stated that they would keep their protest routes a secret, as they feared retaliation from the ruling party's youth wing, alleging that the youth wing had threatened to lay nails and broken glass on the road in order to pop the tyres of their vehicles, so that they wouldn't "disturb the prime minister". The government's Social Affairs Minister reacted by dubbing their protest a "political provocation". A few days later, police forces initiated a crackdown on the anti-government protesters. Amid the police sweep, the organization's van was seized and impounded, while its legal owner was fined. == References ==