The association for culture, art, and international cooperation Adligat announced today that the organizer of the “Days of Culture of Serbs in Croatia” canceled their participation in the event and the presentation of the Museum of the Book and Travel.
During the literary evening “Mitrov danak – pesnički sastanak” (Mitrov Day – Poets’ Gathering), the museum’s work, collections related to Croatia, including letters from Miroslav Krleža, as well as culture from distant parts of the planet like Indonesia, Panama, Brazil, and Africa, were planned to be presented on November 12 at 7 PM, according to the announcement.
The Honorary President of Adligat, Viktor Lazić, pointed out that a day before the planned departure for Croatia, they received notification from the organizer that “due to the political situation in Croatia and the security-safety assessment of the threat to participants and the audience,” the theater play “The House” and the literary evening “Mitrov danak pesnički sastanak” were being canceled.
“Wouldn’t even a police cordon be enough to protect us? A lecture about the museum and reading poetry turned into – a heroic deed! They say November is inappropriate because it reminds people of the period when crimes were committed. And when were there no crimes, by all against all,” Lazić asked.
Let us recall that in previous days, there was a series of incidents with attacks on a Serbian cultural event in Split, the appearance of anti-Serbian graffiti, and the cancellation of other cultural events.
The Mayor of Vukovar, Marijan Pavliček, had earlier requested the Serbian Cultural Center Vukovar, the Joint Council of Municipalities, and the Consulate General of Serbia to postpone the exhibition that was supposed to open tomorrow, on Armistice Day in World War I, because, according to him, November is dedicated to honoring the victims of Vukovar.
“Unfortunately, it is evident that neither the celebration of world peace, nor the role of women in the war, which should not offend anyone, nor the global demand for respect for the right to freedom of expression and culture represent an obstacle to the motive that is, unfortunately, prevalent and unrelenting in today’s Croatia: that everything Serbian, even the very word Serbian, is mercilessly persecuted,” assessed the Ministry of Culture of Serbia.
It is added that “what reveals the depth of cynicism is the belief that the very occasion or name of the exhibition is provocative.”
“Namely, it is an explicit belief that it is legitimate to say that the name Serbian, as undesirable, nullifies, for example, among other things, the significance of Armistice Day and the role of women in it. The burden of revisionism is clearly at work, which once it starts with the falsification and distortion of history, drags its terrible weight of brazenness,” states the announcement of the Ministry of Culture.
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