Slobo on a bottle

Slobodan, Novi Sad, oct 2006


A morning at the trainstation of Novi Sad. Three men are sitting at a white plastic table, eating chunks of porkmeat and drinking serbian Rakija. As many people in Serbia, they are trying to sell handmade stuff on the street. These men sell prints on selfmade bottles the of archangel Gabriël, Maria and... Mladic, Karadgic and former president Slobodan Milosevic. Hiding my Dutch nationality behind my poor Slovak language skills, I tried to avoid the subject of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague. For these simple men the killers of the Balkan, now on trial or already dead, are still their freedomfighters.