According to the protocol of the Organizing Committee for the celebration of the Day of the Municipality of Centar (Centar Sarajevo), yesterday in the park between the Municipality of Centar and Ali Pasha’s mosque, the Association of Ecologists “Arboretum”, in cooperation with the Municipality of Centar, Cantonal Public Utility Company “Park” and primary schools from the Municipality of Centar, organized the action of planting roses in memory of the killed children of Sarajevo, killed during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
On behalf of the Municipality of Centar, yesterday’s planting action was also joined by the Mayor of Centar Srdjan Mandic, councilors Velija Katica, Alen Girt, and Samir Fazlic, and on behalf of the Department of Education, Social Affairs, Culture, and Sports Lejla Dizdarevic and Amra Hasimbegovic-Vuckovic.
”My dear children, thank you for coming because it is very important that we remember the 1.601 children who were killed during the aggression against BiH and the siege of Sarajevo. It is our obligation to remember in this way our fighters who lost their lives defending this city and our freedom, as well as your peers who unfortunately lost their lives as innocent victims of the war. It is very important that you remember that and that you know what happened during the last war, and this is one of the ways that that memory is not extinguished in some way, and the obligation of us elders is to provide you with a peaceful childhood,” said Mayor Mandic.
Yesterday’s action, in addition to elementary school students from Centar and their principals and teaching staff, was also attended by fellow citizens who survived the loss of their dearest young relatives, as well as Zeljko Komsic, a member of the Presidency of BiH.
”The culture of remembrance does not have to be just stone monuments but also roses as living reminders of murdered children. In this way, by planting, we are trying to nurture the culture of remembering the killed children and to ecologically influence our youth to love and preserve nature. We will plant 1.601 roses in the entire Canton Sarajevo (CS) as a permanent memorial. Today we planted 100 roses in this park. In the future, we intend to continue this action and arrange rose gardens throughout Sarajevo in memory of our children killed during the past war. In the future, they will be taken care of by members of environmental sections from primary schools,” Azem Gino stated yesterday, president of the Association of Ecologists “Arboretum” from Sarajevo.
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