09.05.2019.
Opening of Exhibition „Never Forget“
On the occasion of marking the 20th anniversary of defence against NATO aggression against FR Yugoslavia, an exhibition was opened today in the Small Gallery of the Central Military Club, titled “Never Forget” by an author, Milen Čuljić.
The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Media Centre „Odbrana“ by the Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia, encompasses the works of more than 90 photoreporters, created in spring 1999 and it brings testimonies of the horrors of war, innocent human victims, destroyed houses, bridges, roads and factories.
Greeting the present on behalf of the Media Centre “Odbrana”, Head of the Gallery Jelena Knežević underlined that the editor of the exhibition tried to portray in an authentic way the consequences of NATO aggression and heroic defence by the armed forces and people, setting the exhibition up on seven thematic segments: aggression on Serbia, defence of the fatherland, victims of the aggression, ecological effects, protests of citizens here and in the wold, life under NATO bombs and effects of the aggression which still last.
According to a journalist and publicist, retired Colonel Zvonimir Pešić, the exhibition is grand and still insufficiently retold story of a horrific aggression against a small, sovereign country which did not agree with capitulation.
- It was an experiment in vivo, which in many ways had fascist characteristics, it was an example for all those who raise their head and express their non-submissiveness to world leaders and their desire to rule the planet - Pešić stressed, adding that they had been met by a difficult opponent and strong defence and resistance of a people who had been showing and proving through centuries that freedom is the most costly Serbian word.
He said that particular stress of the exhibition was placed on the segment on ecological disaster – ecocide, reminding that ammunition with depleted uranium was often used during the war which continued to kill even to the present.
Opening the exhibition, the author, academic painter Milen Čulјić pointed out that in the preparation of that exhibition he owed particular gratefulness to photoreporters who at the time had worked in difficult conditions, risking their lives and risking their radiation, thus leaving to Serbia a testimony enabling it to remember through those photographs.
The exhibition “Never Forget” was set up for the first time in the Sava Centre during commemoration of the tenth anniversary of NATO aggression, and ten years later it became a kind of mobile memorial centre. In those ten years it was presented in several towns in Serbia and Montenegro and it was recently exhibited in Rome and Bratislava.
The visitors of the Small Gallery of the Central Military Club will have an opportunity to see the exhibition until 8th June.
PHOTOGALLERY
