Students from Sarajevo schools gathered today at the Memorial to the Murdered Children of the Besieged Sarajevo 1992-1995 and paid tribute to the murdered children of the besieged Sarajevo with a special program.
The program marking May 5 – the Day of Remembrance for the Murdered Children of Sarajevo, was attended by children from preschool institutions and students from Sarajevo schools who performed a musical performance.
In the speeches of the participants of the gathering, it was emphasized that today everyone remembers 1,601 innocent souls, their names, faces, smiles, and their untold stories.
“These are not numbers, these are our children, the children of Sarajevo. They have remained forever in our city, in our memory, in our legacy,” the message from the gathering was conveyed.
The president of the Association of Parents of Murdered Children of the Besieged Sarajevo 1992-1995. Fikret Grabovica said that the monument in front of which they stand reminds, warns, and commands not to forget.
“Today is another meeting of emotions, interwoven with pain, in a place that represents the suffering of children, a city under siege, 1,601 of them innocently killed, violently torn from their parents’ embrace. This place, a symbol of suffering, obliges us to prevent a similar evil from happening to today’s youth and future generations,” said Grabovica.
Isn’t this monument, he added, these pillars with the names of our children that turn endlessly, remaining deeply engraved in our memory and the conscience of the whole world, a signal and a sign and proof that the crime must be sanctioned and the criminal punished.
“We are the parents of murdered children, we are the scream of those who are not there. And that’s why, as long as we live, our fight and relentless commitment to ending the injustice of evil and crimes against children will live on,” said Grabovica.
The Government of Sarajevo Canton declared May 5 as the Day of Mourning in memory of the murdered children of Sarajevo, Fena writes.
