Non-governmental organizations Center for Civic Education (CGO), Action for Human Rights (HRA) and Center for Peace and Women's Education - ANIMA announced today that they expect the police to urgently reveal the perpetrators of the desecration of the monument to the organizers of the 1941th of July Uprising in XNUMX in Ravni Laz in Piperi .
In a joint statement, they state that "with great sadness and disappointment, they received the news about the desecration of the monument to the organizers of the Thirteenth of July Uprising in 1941, the first anti-fascist uprising in enslaved Europe".
"The desecration of any cultural asset is a primitive and anti-civilizational act, but the destruction of an anti-fascist sign also means support for the ideas of fascism and collaboration. in the XNUMXs, the only ones in the region, managed to preserve it. This emphasizes the obligation of the competent branches to discover as soon as possible the individuals or organizations that were ready for this act and to prosecute them", states the joint statement of CGO, HRA and ANIMA, signed by Daliborka Uljarević, executive director of CGO, Tea Gorjanc Prelević, executive director of HRA and Ljupka Kovačević, coordinator of ANIMA.
The announcement adds that if it is an act of individuals, it is a serious reminder of the need to look at educational policies and the lack of transfer of knowledge about the anti-fascist tradition, anti-fascist ideas and their importance for shaping modern civil society.
"It is very important that we do not allow the development of unscientific nationalist revisionism, which Montenegro has been fueling for a long time. Part of the cause of this vandalism is someone's radical ideological conviction filled with hatred and the desire for destruction, and extremism and violence are the consequences," the CGO, HRA and ANIMA.
It is also stated that if there is an organization behind this act, then it requires a systematic and dedicated approach of the competent institutions to suppress and ban extremist groups, a broad public discussion in which they will analyze how such an organization was created and what can be done in the educational and legal framework to attacks on the anti-fascist heritage and the revitalization of fascism and collaboration are prevented in time.
"It is a special obligation of the government to prove its anti-fascist commitment, because it rhetorically insists on these values, but practice does not show this. This includes, in this case, finding and sanctioning the perpetrators of this act, but also substantive and continuous work to protect the anti-fascist heritage." the announcement concludes.
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