VUJADINOVIĆ: THE ENTIRE CIVILIZED WORLD SHOULD RAISE ITS VOICE AGAINST A MONUMENT TO FERDINAND

BELGRADE, FEBRUARY 27 /SRNA/ - A member of the Serbian National Assembly Milimir Vujadinović, stated that the restoration of the monument to Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg in Sarajevo would represent "historical revisionism" against which the entire civilized world should raise its voice.

"The entire civilized world must demand the stopping of historical revisionism. There has probably never been an example in history of someone erecting a monument in their own country to an occupier, defeated in a world war and responsible for the loss of millions of lives worldwide," said Vujadinović, who is also a member of the Interparliamentary Forum Serbia - Republika Srpska.

He noted that the monument to Franz Ferdinand and his wife was removed after the liberation of Sarajevo in the First World War and after the end of the occupation of Serbia, BiH, as well as other territories that then became part of the new state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

Vujadinović recalled that it was one of the difficult periods for all peoples of the region, during which natural and human resources were exhausted, and in the war that was imposed, millions of compatriots were killed.

"Observing the actions of the Sarajevo political milieu - one could freely say its madness - which is erecting a monument to the leader of a creation that killed millions of Serbs in the Balkans, one might expect that next they will erect a monument to Adolf Hitler, since he and his creation were also occupiers of these territories for several years," Vujadinović assessed.

He added that if anyone had previously found attacks from Sarajevo on Serbia, its president Aleksandar Vučić, and state authorities strange, after this many things may now be clearer.

Vujadinović stated that it may also now be clearer why opposition activists recently vandalized the monument to Gavrilo Princip in Belgrade with paint.

He believes it is important to call on all freedom-loving nations and all victors of the Great War to condemn and, if possible, stop what he described as the reckless intention of the Sarajevo political establishment.

"Long live mother Serbia, long live Republika Srpska, glory to the hero Gavrilo Princip!" Vujadinović concluded.

The Sarajevo City Assembly adopted an initiative to restore the monument to Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at the Latin Bridge /formerly Princip's Bridge/ in Sarajevo.