Social activists demand a memorial to Sarajevo Serbs tortured and killed in the 1990s
The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs of the Federation of (Muslim-Croat) Bosnia and Herzegovina appealed to the authorities of the neighboring entity of the country, Republika Srpska, with a request to establish on its territory a memorial in memory of fellow tribesmen tortured by Islamists in the Bosnian capital.
This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in the Federation of BiH called on the authorities of the Republika Srpska and Serbian East Sarajevo (a suburb of the Bosnian capital remaining on the territory of the Republic of Serbia) to organize in the part of the Vratsa memorial complex in Sarajevo, which belongs to the Serbian entity, a place for commemorating Serbs killed by separatists from 1992 to 1995.
Committee Chairman Djordje Radanovic (see title photo) stated that the current appearance and inscriptions at the Vratsa memorial complex are a “falsification of the truth” about what happened in Sarajevo during World War II.
“It should be made clear that during World War II, only Serbs and Jews were killed in Sarajevo,” Radanovic said.
Memorial complex in Vratsa.
The inscription on the current memorial indicates certain residents of Sarajevo without nationality, although the Ustashe regime of the Independent Croatian Power (NDH), which operated on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, allied to the Third Reich, perceived the same Bosniaks as allies, and its Fuhrer (Governor) Ante Pavelic called them “the flower of the Croatian nation” "
“Part of the Vratsa memorial complex territorially belongs to the Republika Srpska. Since the Federation of BiH does not want to erect a monument to the murdered Serbs in Sarajevo, the Republika Srpska should do it in its part of Vratsa. In this way, all guests of Sarajevo who visit Vratsa will learn the truth about the terrible suffering that the Sarajevo Serbs endured,” Djordje Radanovic said in a statement.
According to Serbian researchers, from 1992 to 1995, 8 thousand 255 Serbs were killed in the capital of BiH; before the war, 157 thousand Serb residents lived there; according to 2013 data - only 10 thousand 442 people.
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