Balkan musicians unveil Bob Marley 'peace' statue

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

BANATSKI SOKOLAC, Serbia (AFP) — Musicians from the former Yugoslavia have unveiled a statue of late Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley as a symbol of peace.

Several thousand gathered at a rock festival in the tiny Serbian hamlet of Banatski Sokolac for the uncovering of the statue, which features Marley in a tea cosy, clutching a guitar and fist raised towards the sky.

"Bob Marley -- fighter for freedom armed with a guitar," reads the inscription at the base of the two-metre-high (6.5-foot) sculpture, the first of the late reggae star in Europe.

"This is fabulous. Serbia is now registered on the charts of modern culture with this statue of the 'apostle of tolerance.' I am very happy," declared Marko, a 26-year-old from the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad....