Podgorica Democrats are not giving up on the proposal that, among the streets to be named in the capital, one should be named after Pavlo Bulatović.
There are more than enough reasons for that, says Vladimir Čađenović, a member of that party.
"One of the first victims of the transition period and organized crime is Pavle Bulatović, and indeed, as a symbol of that struggle, as a man who innocently shed his blood in that struggle, he should bear his name in the Capital City, and indeed Pavle Bulatović's biography is in addition to that facts rich, from the University of Montenegro where he started his working career through the performance of the highest state functions. He became and remained a famous personality, the pride of Montenegro and one of its best sons," says Čađenović.
And while, on the one hand, the Democrats are convinced that their proposal will be unanimously adopted by the Council for proposing the names of settlements, streets and squares, the non-governmental organizations Action for Human Rights (HRA), Anima and the Center for Civic Education (CGO) sent representatives of the institutions a protest letter requesting that the proposal be withdrawn, recalling that Bulatović was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the FR Yugoslavia at the time of the deportation of Bosnian-Herzegovinian refugees.
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"If this proposal is adopted, we would end up in a situation where a street in the capital is named after the man who induced one of the biggest war crimes in recent history on the territory of Montenegro. What is ironic in this case is that such a proposal comes from on the part of those people who justifiably criticized the previous government structure, whose representatives had a certain role in those war years, and the question certainly arises where, suddenly, such a man came from," said Nikola Obradović from CGO.
"That man was never charged for that case or in that case, nor is there a final verdict against Mr. Pavle Bulatović," said Čađenović.
In 2009, during the deportation trial, several witnesses and accused police officers active at the time of this war crime announced that it was from Bulatović, as the then first man of the MUP, that a telegram had arrived in May 1992 in which it was stated that action should be taken. according to the requests of the MUP of the Republic of Srpska, and that the refugees be deprived of their freedom and returned to the territory of BiH.
Bulatović's responsibility was established in 2011 by the Higher Court in Podgorica, which acquitted the nine defendants in this case with the explanation that they acted according to orders.
Although the letter of the NGO was sent to the Deputy Prime Minister and the first person of the Democrats, Aleksa Bečić, to the Minister of European Affairs, Maida Gorčević, there is still no response.
"We received answers from Mr. Pejović and Mrs. Vujović. Boris Pejović states in his answer that the council he chairs, that is, at the head of which he is, is obliged to consider every proposal that comes to him, including this one if and when he gets on the agenda with the explanation of the proponent. Minister of Culture and Media Tamara Vujović stating that she does not have the legal authority to influence and suggest to local governments the erection of monuments and symbols, nor to prevent proposals for their erection or names", explains Obradović.
Televizija Vijesti did not manage to find out from the president of that body, Boris Pejović, when the meeting of the Council for naming streets, which was supposed to be held in mid-February, will be scheduled, and at which, among other things, this proposal will be considered.
Pavle Bulatović was killed in Belgrade on February 7, 2000. The murder was never solved, and for more than two decades it has been speculated that the security structures of the then government were responsible for it.
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