A multitude of bad and good events are tied for 6th April in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Thus, this day celebrates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Sarajevo in World War II, and it is very significant that four years before this event, within the German attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, exactly on that day 1941, Sarajevo was swamped with bombs.
Something similar happened in a recent history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Former Yugoslav army started the liberation of Sarajevo on 28th March 1945. Actions were attended by the 2nd, 3rd and 5thCorps of the Yugoslav army, 11th and 13th brigade of Krajina, 18th Middle Bosnian brigade, artillery and tank unit.
After fierce battles on 6th April 1945, the resistance of Germans and members of so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was broken, and Sarajevo was liberated. Until the end of this action on 10th April, Visoko, Kakanj and Busovaca were liberated as well.
After the liberation in World War II, 47 years later, Sarajevo started another battle. Since the beginning of the aggression and siege, until the 31st July 1995 in Sarajevo, 11.541 civilians, from which 1.598 were children, were killed, died of starvation, cold or disappeared. Material damage suffered by the city during the siege and aggression, primarily through the destruction of housing stock and the destruction of the cultural treasure and commercial objects and roads, is invaluable.
Monument to Murdered Children was made at which names of 524 children for whom the documentation has been collected, and determined under what circumstances they died.
The aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina was followed by a month after a referendum.
Exactly on the Day of the City of Sarajevo, on 6th April 1992, when former European Union confirmed Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent state after a referendum on which citizens have declared that they want an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina from the rest of former Yugoslavia, new attack on Sarajevo happened.
On the occasion of April 6th – the Day of Sarajevo and the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of the siege, Mayor Benjamina Karic presented yesterday a rich cultural, artistic, sports, and scientific program.
The Mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karic, presented the planned activities planned for April 4th, 5th, and 6th, which will be marked in the City Hall – a kind of symbol of the city, its resistance and the place of this year’s program.
“We will start the program marking the anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo on Monday with an exhibition by Paul Low, entitled ‘Opsada/Siege’. Paul is a British, but also a Bosnian with a Sarajevo address who marked everyday life during the siege with his objective,” Karic said.
At 8 p.m., there will be a video projection of “Sarajevo Rose”, a story about the war symbols of the suffering of this city, Klix.ba writes.
The next day, on Tuesday, it is planned to mark exactly 30 years since the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, the longest siege of a city in modern history that lasted a full 44 months.
“Attendance at the April 5th conference was confirmed by Carmel Agius and Serge Brammertz, President and Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts, former UNPROFOR Commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Rupert Smith. The conference will also be attended by Johann Sattler, Head of the European Union (EU)Delegation to BiH, and Prof. Dr. Ivo Komsic – former member of the BiH Presidency and former mayor of Sarajevo, “explained Karic.
“April 6th is the day when we celebrate the day of Sarajevo, the city of beauty, culture, tolerance, and human warmth. We will dedicate that day to people who have built their lives into the freedom and progress of the city,” noted Mayor Karic.
On this day, the citizens of Sarajevo will receive the renovated Bistrik station, a symbol of the city and a national monument that protects the long history of railways.
“We have enriched the building of the Bistrik station with the exhibition Walter defends Sarajevo,” announced Karic.
Also, a rich children’s, sports, and cultural program is planned. Divanhana will hold its concert on the plateau next to the City Hall, and Mayor Karic announced that free admission to cinemas will be provided in the next month so that the citizens of Sarajevo can enjoy 33 short films shot in Sarajevo.
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(Source: klix.ba/ faktor.ba)
