It may have started harmlessly, but now the story about the monuments is turning into political inter-entity confrontations, and that confrontations of the once-announced young political hopes and forces. On one side Benjamina Karić, and on the other Draško Stanivuković.
After the monument to King Tvrtko was erected this morning on the initiative of the mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić, across from the Presidency, her colleague from Banja Luka responded.
The mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, said that this BH the city will receive a monument to King Tvrtko and that he will “correct the injustice done by Sarajevo”.
Stanivuković believes that King Tvrtko was appropriated and that he is a medieval Serbian ruler, and accuses the mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić, and her associates of creating a rough ending to history in order to “fill in the historical holes of their people and collect daily political points by touching the very core of King Tvrtko, his struggle and rule”.
“Tvrtko I Kotromanić was a Christian ruler, with the official title of king of the Serbs of Bosnia, the Primorje and the western parts, crowned with a Nemanja ceremony in the Mileševo monastery over the relics of Saint Sava, which is a historical fact,” Stanivuković said.
He added that political Sarajevo is consciously throwing out the full name of the title of King Tvrtko, and by not mentioning the people and other countries he ruled, he is consciously confusing the public for the purpose of political propaganda.
“This year, the city of Banja Luka will start the process of building a monument to Ban Kulin and King Tvrtko in order to defend the truth and the gratitude that the Serbian people have towards their medieval rulers,” concluded Stanivuković.
