“At this place, one school was killed, a school with 1.601 students, one large school with 66 classes and 12 desks in each. Take a moment to pause and imagine that. What a vast sea of desire and the murmur of laughter that is?” read the BiH actress Vedrana Seksan in front of the Memorial to the Killed Children of the Besieged Sarajevo 1992-1995.
On the occasion of May 9, Day of Victory over Fascism, the event “To the Children of Sarajevo” sent a message to younger generations of BiH to not leave their homeland, to stay and fight for their future with knowledge and truth.
Severyl hundreds of students of Sarajevo elementary and high schools and kindergartens filled the Great Park, where they paid tribute to the children killed during the war and the siege of the capital of BiH.
After distressing poems read by Seksan and the BiH actor Izudin Bajrović and the song “Bosna puna nas” (“Bosnia full of us”) by Benjamin Isović, the kids choir of Sarajevo elementary schools with a solo singer sang the song “Ostajte ovdje” (“Stay here”) by the BiH poet Aleksa Šantić.
“Symbolically, there are several motives for us to be here, the most important one being the memory of the killed children of this city and preservation of truth from oblivion. We also want to send a message to young people that they create a better and nicer life, to send a message with the motive of this event – to stay here, because there is future here and all it takes is effort. Their weapons in all life battles should be knowledge and truth,” said Fikret Grabovica, president of the Association of Parents of the Killed Children of Sarajevo 1992-1995.
After the program, students laid flowers at the memorial, as did several representatives of cantonal and federal institutions of BiH.
On May 9, when the Day of Victory over Fascism and the Day of Europe are being marked, tribute is traditionally paid to the innocent killed children on the besieged Sarajevo in the period from 1992 until 1995.
(Source: fokus.ba)
