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Parliament exhibition condemned by opposition
Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic has organized an exhibition of reproductions of paintings allegedly stolen in the unrest that toppled Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000 but the opposition says the event is meant to demean the protests that brought democratic changes.
Opposition politicians are saying that Gojkovic, who was a member of the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in 2000, wants to present October 5 as a day when parliament was sacked, not as the day that >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << the population toppled the dictator and his regime.
The exhibition is titled Art Waiting for Justice, October 5, 2000 and is not open to the public. It includes some 60 replicas of pictures which were destroyed or went missing. The Serbian History Museum took a month to make the reproductions from digital photographs.
“The October 5 events, when the parliament building was set on fire, inflicted irreparable damage because a significant part of our cultural heritage disappeared and has not been returned since,” Gojkovic said at the opening of the exhibition in the central parliament hall.
Former Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic said the disappearance of the artworks has nothing to do with the organizers of the October 5 protests. “We won freedom on that day and this building became a temple of democracy. It’s wrong to expect us to burn down something that we liberated,” he said.
Democratic Party MP Maja Videnovic, who took part in the October 5 protests, said that she would not allow a revision of history. “I won’t allow them to demean, criminalize and revise history,” she said, adding that some of the politicians who were in power under the Milosevic regime are in power again.
“The obvious intent with this exhibit is to present October 5 as a day when someone came to parliament to rob it, not as the day that we won freedom,” MP Marko Djurisic of the Social Democrat Party said.
