On Saturday, July 18th, the second day of Eid al-Fitr which is being marked as the Day of Shahids, a memorial plaque to the shahids was revealed at the graveyard in Vrtlište, Kakanj Municipality.
Names of 11 shahids originating from Vrtlište or Ćifići, settlements that were long ago resettled due to surface coal exploitation, are carved on the plaque, and this is the first time that the names of all of them are written in one memorial, given that they are buried in 5 different locations where they lived after the eviction.
The memorial plaque was built by the inhabitants of the resettled villages Vrtlište and Ćifići, and the plaque was revealed by the daughter of the shahid Refik Skeledžija.
Residents of the abovementioned evicted villages cleaned and fenced the graveyard and built the memorial plaque self-initiativelly and using their own means, which is a fine example of an adequate attitude towards those who gave their lives for freedom.
It is important to emphasize that the greatest contribution to the arrangement of the graveyard and the building of the memorial plaque was given by the generations that do not remember the events from the period from year 1992 until 1995, it was announced by the Press Service of the Kakanj Municipality.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)