Monument to
Jasa Tomic, an Intolerable Act
Press Release
Belgrade, November 10, 2006
The fact that the monument to Jasa Tomic was unveiled
in downtown Novi Sad yesterday, on the very International Day against
Fascism and Anti-Semitism, indicates by far more than stand for yet
another in the series of incidents that besmear the recognized values of
the democratic world and stain Vojvodina's civic identity.
Yesterday's act whereby the Novi Sad Radicals paid
homage to a pronounced anti-Semite and murderer of liberal intellectual
Misa Dimitrijevic actually mirrors the tendency regretfully perceived in
today's Serbia as legitimate and permissible: glorification of crime and
obscurantism on the one hand, and negation of free thought on the other.
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, therefore,
once again warns that restoration of the most conservative ideological
programs is in full swing in Serbia. Moreover, this is all about the
threatening trend that speedily moves Serbia back to her worst past at
the time she, according to creators of her newest constitution, speedily
moves towards Europe and attempts to catch up with global integration
processes.
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