The 82nd anniversary of the Battle for the Wounded on the Neretva was marked on Saturday by laying flowers on the Memorial and lowering 82 carnations into the Neretva in Jablanica.
President of SABNOR BiH Sead Đulić said that the Battle of the Neretva is the most glorious and humane battle in the common history of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia.
“This year we mark the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism, however, in all of this, it should be said that fascism was defeated militarily in 1945, but not destroyed,” Đulić said, among other things.
He emphasized that everyone who follows the values of anti-fascism has no right to remain silent.
“We don’t have the right to inaction and we don’t have the right only to remember. We need memory as inspiration for today and tomorrow, life in the past never brought anyone freedom. In this year, when we celebrate freedom, we must all say loudly and unanimously and repeat to everyone that anti-fascism is another name for freedom,” emphasized Đulić.
Jablanica, as he says, is the right place because it was there during the Battle of the Neretva that “the Chetnik movement suffered the heaviest blow and was almost destroyed.”
“They never recovered until 1945, and if they shot at Tito’s partisans, then who are the anti-fascists? We often keep silent about it,” said Đulić with the remark that young people must also be aware of what was happening.
He adds that “the famous order ‘we must not leave the wounded’ must be translated into our time”.
“There are no wounded, but there are minorities, there are disenfranchised, there are those who are powerless and in many other ways vulnerable people. Let’s learn to help them and protect them because they are our “wounded in 2025”. When we do that, it makes sense to remember 1943 and the Battle for the Wounded,” said Đulić.
As part of the celebration of the aforementioned anniversary, a ceremonial academy was held, and the exhibition “Testimonies” by Belma Halihodžić, Armin Balić and Haris Falan was opened, Fena writes.
