Written by: Đorđe Šćepović, Adnan Čirgić, Aleksandar Radoman, Boban Batrićević
In light of recent systematic and deliberate efforts to undermine Montenegro’s anti-fascist legacy, most notably the disgraceful decision regarding this year’s The 13th July Award recipients, and in recognition of the public’s resistance to such blatant historical revisionism, we feel compelled to ask the Public Institution Ratković Poetry Evenings: what has become of the initiative to revoke the award granted to Radovan Karadžić?
The institution’s explanation, citing supposed legal obstacles, is not the kind of response civic-minded Montenegrins expect. Legal experts have already made it clear: there are no such obstacles. Ratković Poetry Evenings not only has the right, but the responsibility, to revoke the award.
We therefore demand that the shameful name of a convicted war criminal and mass murderer be immediately removed from the list of laureates. No excuses. No passing the buck.
If this does not happen, it will be fair to conclude that we are witnessing either cowardice or a complete lack of will to even symbolically cleanse this literary award of the stain it bears.
We understand this will not please Želidrag Nikčević – the man who awarded both Radovan and Bećir – nor the current regime. But at a time when Montenegro is at risk of being dismantled, occupied, and transformed into the very project Karadžić envisioned in the 1990s, this is the bare minimum.
It is the least we owe to those for whom Radovan Karadžić was the executioner.
Antifascism – or nothing!
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