If Montenegro aspires to stop the further polarization of society, the proposal to name one of the streets in Podgorica after Pavlo Bulatović.
This is what an independent councilor and member of the non-partisan Citizens' Initiative "21. may" Aleksandar Saša Zeković.
"Bulatović was also part of the politics that carried out the Great Serbian and puppet coup in Montenegro (1989), and later he was killed... If we strive to stop the further polarization of our society, we should abandon this proposal, because it objectively does not exist no argument for its adoption", said Zeković to "Vijesti" yesterday.
As he added, he believes that even the Minister of Culture and Media would not give a final positive opinion Tamara Vujović.
"Which is expected to speak soon at the panel discussion 'Facing the past - achievements and challenges'. Assigning this name to one of the streets in Zagorič or Murtovina, which are currently the only streets without a name, would be seen as an open provocation towards civilian victims and an attempt to revise recent history in order to affirm, through its protagonists, the worst of all policies which is destroyed Montenegro", he said.
Pavle Bulatović was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Montenegro and the Minister of Internal Affairs and Defense of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The proposal for Pavle Bulatović to get a street in Podgorica was submitted by the councilors of Democratic Montenegro to the Council for proposing names of settlements, streets and squares. Mitar Vuković i Vladimir Čađenović.
In this regard, Zeković sent an appeal to the President of the Council yesterday Boris Pejović.
In his address to Pejović, Zeković stated that he had been contacted by numerous activists in recent days.
"And the most reputable non-governmental organizations from the country and region that are dedicated to transitional justice and the process of dealing with the past. All of them are worried about the publicly announced information that, in the foreseeable future, it could happen that Pavle Bulatović gets a memorial in Podgorica. The council for proposing the names of settlements, streets and squares of the Assembly of the Capital City of Podgorica should not become a body that defines and interprets our past outside of the facts and that could be recognized as a platform for the rehabilitation of Slobodan Milošević's politics", he stated.
According to him, "the politics to which Bulatović also belonged, and in the name of which wars were fought, has no humanitarian significance and is in no way responsible for the state, social, economic, scientific or cultural development of Montenegro."
As he added, when presenting Bulatović as a prominent figure, "one should not ignore the data that, despite the real danger to their lives and health, as a Montenegrin minister, he ordered the deportation of Bosnian refugees from Montenegro."
"And as a federal minister, he was in charge of coordinating the arrest and forced return of Serbian refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the battlefields. As a result of the deportation of refugees from Montenegro, at least 54 people died, so the naming of a street after Bulatović in Podgorica should not and cannot be recognized as an action by the official authorities in the direction of establishing justice", stated Zeković.
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