In that context, I believe that those who wanted to initiate something with their attack on Srdj Jaksic have a good political and civilizational instinct. It is not the same to do something in Dubrovnik and in Ogulin. Not because I neglect the importance of human life or actions, but because I interpret them on their symbolical level. Dubrovnik will be fully vindicated if it again becomes what it used to be within Croatia, and that is its cultural, spiritual, and civilizational heart. We are here waiting.
People are partly lethargic.
Boka experienced the death of its civilization a long time before Dubrovnik. In that sense there is no suffering. Instead we are witnessing a sort of melancholy. At this moment the dominant impressions are those of melancholy and expectation, the expectation of the moment at which we shall depart the framework referred to as Yugoslavia. That strike gravely damaged this monument of Croatian cultural heritage, which includes a huge painted ceiling, a work of Jozo Kljakovic and a huge mosaic, a work of Edo Murtic , which means that some 500 meters square of Croatian cultural heritage has been damaged.