On the occasion of September 21, the International Day of Peace, the Mayor of Sarajevo, Samir Avdić, laid flowers with His Excellency, the Ambassador of Palestine, Rezeq Namoora, at the Memorial to the Murdered Children of the Besieged Sarajevo 1992–1995.
Representatives of the Association of Parents of Murdered Children and students of Sarajevo elementary schools also laid flowers.
As a sign of peace, a multitude of white doves flew into the sky from that place, and then the participants visited the Memorial Room at Džidžikovac No. 3, dedicated to the murdered children of the besieged Sarajevo and opened on this day a year ago.
Avdić told reporters that Sarajevo is the right place for a universal message of peace because in recent history it has gone through the ordeal of a 1,425-day war siege.
“We really need to have empathy and sensitivity, and ultimately, knowledge, for the current events in the world that are not in the best interests of humanity,” said the Sarajevo mayor.
He added that the least that can be done at the monument to the murdered children is to send a message of peace together with the ambassador of Palestine. Avdić is convinced that this monument will always be a reminder that violence, crimes and everything that is bad for human civilization cannot be acceptable.
He reminds that even today there are places in the world where children suffer and die as a result of war, as happens every day in Gaza.
Ambassador of Palestine also stated that today’s Gaza children are suffering terribly and dying like the little ones in Sarajevo once and that the monument in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a place of painful reminder of the suffering of innocent beings, as well as a place of messages about the need for evil to stop so that every child can live in peace.
