Members of the cycling section from the Sports Association “DISTRICT,” will be organizing cycling marathon Brčko – Srebrenica in memory of the murdered civilians of Srebrenica, who will departure in front of City Hall in Brčko on the 10th of July at 8 pm.
Cyclists from Brčko will gather first at the Square of the young in Brčko, and later on will go to the monument for the members of the Army of B&H and HVO where they will recite Fatiha and pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, after which they will be moving to Srebrenica.
Cyclists will pass by the Brezovo Polje, where the Bosniaks and Croats were trapped at the beginning of the war, and later will pass through Bijeljina, Janja, Zvornik and Konjević Polje, where members of the marathon from Bihać will join them. They are planning to enter together in the Memorial Centre Potočari.
More than 500 bicyclists from Brčko and other parts of B&H are expected at the 20th anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica.
All participants of the cycling marathon will be uniformed. Police of Brčko District and the Public Security Center Bijeljina will be securing the participants.
For more information about the marathon, you can call the following phone number: 38762 853 234.
Brčko cyclists who are ready for co-existence, but not willing to forget the past either, drove similar marathon from Brčko to Vukovar. They will be joining the Vukovar marathon again this year.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)
