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Art description:
The exhibition consists of photographs documenting the war in former Yugoslavia with pictures of brutally murdered civilians and their killers. And prisoners of the Trnopolje prison camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Incident:
A group of ten or so young men wearing T-shirts with the words "Radovan Karadzic - Serbian hero" written on them prevented the opening of the exibition in Kraguevac.
Displaying cards that read "Faith in God and Homeland", they harassed visitors to the exhibition. Fears of greater disorder prompted the organizers to suspend the August 26 opening, which they said would also be moved to a different location.
It is not the first time the exhibition of the photographer Ron Haviv, entitled Blood and Honey, has come under attack from Serbian nationalists.
The exhibition provoked strong reactions in Belgrade, Uzice and Cacak, where hostile public reaction reached a peak. At the beginning of June, a group of about 40 people disrupted the Uzice event, claiming the photographs were "anti-Serbian". When they removed them from the walls, the police stood idly by and just watched.
In mid-July, Ivan Zlatic, 27, paid a high price for trying to organize the Cacak show: he was beaten up by three members of the local extreme right.
Zlatic ended up with cuts on his face and several broken teeth. His assailants were each fined 5,000 dinar (85 euro), except for the gang leader, Igor Ivanovic, who additionally had to spend 10 days in jail.
Current status:
The organization Human Rights Watch has criticized the Serbian government's passivity in the face of repeated attempts by extreme nationalists to disrupt Haviv's exhibition of war photographs.
Opposed by: Serbian Nationalists and City Authorities
Reason: Political
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