Exhibition in Vukovar - A Serb Heroine of the Great War - Postponed for December

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Joint Council of Municipalities chairman Dejan Drakulic said on Nov. 11 that the art exhibition titled "A Serb Heroine of the Great War" had been postponed for December.

"Given what has been going on and the mayor of Vukovar's request, we would like to send out a message of peace and mutual understanding. We have decided to postpone the opening [of the exhibition] for December," Drakulic said in a video message on Facebook. He also said that he was not afraid of threats, informal groups, nor them saying what they thought, but that he wanted "to send out a message of peace and understanding of the moment which, due to the actions of factors outside Vukovar, all of Vukovar's citizens have been brought to."

The exhibition can be seen on social networks, and according to announcements, the public will be informed of the exact date of the exhibition in Vukovar at a later time. Croatian media have reported that members of the BBB football fan group plastered posters reading "There Serbs go again, talking about heroes" on the Joint Council of Municipalities' offices in the night between Nov. 10 and 11, along with photographs of the fall of Vukovar and the entrance of Yugoslav People's Army and Serbian paramilitary units into the Croatian city in the fall of 1991. They were later removed.

Vukovar Mayor Marijan Pavlicek, from the right-wing Croatian Sovereigntists party, said on Nov. 10 that the exhibition needed to be postponed because it was supposed to open ahead of Nov. 18, which is Remembrance Day which commemorates the sacrifice of Vukovar in 1991. The exhibition, "A Serb Heroine of the Great War," conceived by the Serb Cultural Center of Vukovar, the Joint Council of Municipalities and the Serbian General Consulate, was scheduled to open on Nov. 11, Armistice Day.