[wzslider autoplay=”true”]Management and members of the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society “Prosvjeta Sarajevo” today laid wreaths at the memorial chapel to members of Mlada Bosna in the cemetery “Sveti Arhandjeli Georgije and Gavrilo,” and paid tribute to Gavrilo Princip and other participants of the Sarajevo assassination on the anniversary of this fateful event.
Slobodan Soja from the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society “Prosvjeta” said that this marking celebrates young people who loved their country and all people regardless of their religion.
“They gave their lives for freedom and justice, and they were not even 30 years old. People keep trying to say that we celebrate murderers, but I and all of us normal and healthy people will always repeat that we are celebrating young men who loved their country and I think they deserve more respect and attention,” said Soja.
He emphasized that on the day when BiH unanimously agrees that these are the guys who are an example for today’s youth, not for what they did but what they were, that BiH would be a healthier country that will have no problems and will live healthy and prosperous.
“But we will have to wait for who knows how many years and decades for this to happen. I say this with sadness and bitterness, because this place has not been cleaned, and the roof is damaged. These young men were special among thousands of others,” said Soja.
Besides the organizers SPKD – Prosvjeta, laying of wreaths was attended by representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in BiH, the Serbian Orthodox Church – church communities Sarajevo, the Humanitarian Association Dobrotvor and the Circle of Serbian Sisters ‘Sveta velikomucenica Tekla Sarajevo”.
To recall, on this day in 1914, a member of a secret organization Mlada Bosna Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. After the attack in which participated seven people spread out across the section from the fields where exercises were held to the City Hall. This was the reason for the beginning of the World War I.
Gavrilo Princip and other assassins were caught and trialed in the Salonika Trial in 1917.
(Source: M. N./Klix.ba)
