Statement by Jelena Ćuruvija, Honorary president of the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation: The truth about my father’s murder is too difficult for our political reality. It is easier to threaten me and forbid me to know the truth
Cenzolovka 11.06.2024
My father has been gone for 25 years. It seems we are compelled to adopt such phrasing. To say “he is no longer here” as if he had simply vanished on his own, to avoid reiterating that he was murdered, executed, liquidated..., says Jelena Ćuruvija, daughter of the murdered journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, regarding the lawsuit by former State Security Service official Milan Radonjić against the foundation which she founded and of which she is the honorary president.
Jelena Ćuruvija (foto: Cenzolovka) A quarter of a century was insufficient for the judiciary of this country to ascertain who decided my father “should not exist” and who carried out that decision. It is assumed, nonetheless, that this is ample time for us to forget how and why he is no longer here, or at least to lose the will to inquire. Perhaps society can be coerced into oblivion, but I, who bear the burden of the “curse” of being the daughter of a victim of