The “Nermine, come here” monument, dedicated to the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica, was damaged in the Great Park in Sarajevo on Friday evening.
The mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić, spoke on the occasion, strongly condemning the barbaric act of desecrating the monument.
“The plaque next to the monument was destroyed, on which it is written that the sculpture is a symbol of one of the saddest and most moving stories of the Srebrenica genocide, it shows father Ramo Osmanović calling his son Nermin to surrender to Serbian soldiers,” Karić wrote in her post on Facebook.
In 2008, the remains of Ramo and Nermin Osmanović were found by an exhumation team in a mass grave near Srebrenica.
Karić announced that the City of Sarajevo will urgently proceed with the creation of a new plaque, calling on the competent authorities to discover the perpetrators and punish them appropriately.
