Dear List Members,
at the first moment I was not in a favor of responding to the Mediateka's
reply after the Appeal from Belgrade and our reactions. But its anonymous
writer uses the manner of arguing that could leave some distant reader
quite wondering.
Instead of replying, here we have mainly skipping of the questions'
contents by widening the issues involved (Croatian general, Croat
student... who cares?) or by changing the theses (yes, Museum XY is
listed, but what I asked was why you weren't caring when it was endangered
much earlier; or by citing late and obscure students' stand instead of
timely professional reacting), with the only new fact concerning the
exhibition scheduled for March 23rd.
To someone who knows the quality of previous Drodziak's articles, labeling
the _A-01_ -page-analysis from the Washington Post as >the use of the
cheap political propaganda techniques< could only propose the
name of the mainframe of his/her own categories.
Since I am named as the mal-doer in such a sense, I can briefly depict the
basis for my concern about the ethic code. Aside of non-returning of the
supervisedly stolen artifacts from my area indeed, but also from the
Museum of Vukovar, I recall the only and unofficial reaction of Yugoslav
conservators that I ever heard upon a direct damage done by Navy to the
Cathedral, City Hall and Duke's Pallace (nowadays Museum), where I am
sitting right now. It was said among the colleagues that it must be some
gun around it which was the target. It weren't any. And that was all. So I
am holding the right to be worried these days while reading Drodziak's
account of concervators' martial preparation, even with your interesting
exhibition info added.
The main aspect of the replies upon the Appeal at the MUSEUM-L, the human
suffering, was omitted from the response.
I shall briefly connect the mission of conservation with the unhappy
people there in a fieldwork allegory.
Three highlanders' extended families from the Rugova Gorge and nearby
Decani, namely Kaplan, Rusta, and Vesela, are traditional guardians upon
the Orthodox Christian Patriarchate of Pec and the Visoki Decani
Monastery, bearing honorable titles as their "voyvodas". They are Muslim
(similar to the tradition of the Holy Grave Church key-keepers in
Jerusalem), remembering their Catholic rooths in 8th generation. And
they obeyed to their tradition well. Now, that families and their
communities are either expelled (or worse, considering Decani), either
hosting the greater part of the Pec city population, which excaped to
Rugova area behind the KLA-lines, just a couple of kilometers away from
the Patriarchate premises. The allegory stops here.
And shortly about the few among widened issues in the response:
Yes, there was indeed one semestral paper about the Sibenik Cathedral
reconstruction process presented at Belgrade University two months ago. I
know that because I was asked for the references, which I reported. To be
accurate: this interest happened two years after the completion of the
reconstruction, and eight years after the damage itself.
There is short conservational info at:
http://pubwww.srce.hr./muzej_sibenik/kraj.html#povijest, with the dates
and events.
And yes, there is an investigation opened here about the false alarm upon
faked detonations of two mines in Sibenik in 1993. Those were two out of
roughly thousand exploded in the inner city area. What about whole Dzaja
family killed by rocket in residential area? Or about 16 wounded by
anti-infantry and anti-armour cassette bombs at the market place just in
my town? About outskirts' churches deliberately targeted by tanks, robbed
or burned? Or, maybe, about aircraft-gun's bullets in the books at the
shelves? There is no >Croatian general< at hand to wide and evade that
bitter memories.
Sincerely yours,
Jadran Kale------------------------
Zupanijski muzej, HR-22000 Sibenik
Croatia:385(0)22/213-880,fax213-355
http://pubwww.srce.hr/muzej_sibenik
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