Frescoes of child martyrs appeared in the Belgrade monastery
The walls of the Monastery of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the central Belgrade district of Senjak were decorated with frescoes with images of the murdered children Milica Rakic and Slobodan Stojanovic.
This was reported by Novosti, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
On the walls of the Monastery of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, located in the center of Belgrade, frescoes of child martyrs appeared, not yet officially glorified by the SOC, but already revered by the people. We are talking about Slobodan Stojanovic, a boy brutally murdered by Bosniak Islamists in Bosnia, and Milica Rakic, who died during a NATO bombing.
“This is a great event,” commented the appearance of the frescoes by academician Dragoljub Mirkovic, an artist from Bijeljina who created a monument to the boy Slobodan Stojanovic, which will be installed in the gates of a church near Zvornik in the Republika Srpska BiH. – Immense thanks to those who created these frescoes, wonderful people and, above all, the monks of this Belgrade shrine. This is a wonderful example of how the clergy and religious are keenly aware of the reverence people show for these innocent victims and are praying for them.”
In 1992, residents of the Serbian village in BiH - Donja Kamenica, knowing full well what awaited them after Bosnian Muslim troops entered the village, left their house ahead of time, moving to relatives, forgetting to take their dog with them.
Twelve-year-old Slobodan Stojanovic was very worried about his Lassie, who remained on a leash, and as soon as the elders were distracted, he ran after her. Unfortunately, he ended up in his native village when units of the BiH Army entered it.
The child’s executioner was Albanian Elfeta Veseli, who fought for the Bosniak Islamists. The child's body was found without clothes, with his front teeth knocked out, his ear and toes cut off, his arms broken, and deep cross-shaped wounds cut into his torso.
The boy's life was cut short after his throat was cut. According to witnesses - fellow soldiers of the killer, who were involved in the trial as witnesses, Veseli, while washing her clothes from the children's blood, joked and swore.
For this brutal murder, the BiH Court in 2019 sentenced Elfeta Veseli to ten years in prison.
Three-year-old Milica Rakic lived with her parents and older brother in the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica. On the fateful day of April 17, 1999, the mother washed the child in the bathroom and left for a short time to dismantle the bed.
Father and brother were watching TV at that time. A prohibited cluster munition exploded right near the Rakich house, and a fragment hit the child in the head. Zarko Rakic took his daughter to the hospital, but the girl died the next morning.
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