The 31st anniversary of the massacre in Sarajevo’s Ferhadija was marked: They wanted to kill as many people as possible

By laying flowers and paying tribute, the citizens of Sarajevo and the delegation of Sarajevo Canton, representatives of the victims’ association, as well as family members and friends marked the 31st anniversary of the massacre in Ferhadija Street, between numbers 5 and 12, where a shell fired from a position above the city on May 27 In 1992, 26 citizens were killed and 108 were wounded, Anadolia reports.

Željko Komšić, a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, also attended the laying of flowers and tributes.

Alija Hodžić, vice-president of the Association of Parents of Murdered Children of Besieged Sarajevo, also laid flowers and paid tribute to the dead, saying that innocent civilians died there.

“This is a city that has been under the longest siege in modern history and that has suffered disaster from people who had a plan in their heads to destroy a people. They knew they couldn’t succeed in that, but they wanted to kill as many people as possible, because they thought they would enter Sarajevo and be the masters of the city, but the will of the people and the patriots of this country and this city did not allow that to happen. They left a bequest to this nation to enjoy freedom and to defend what was acquired with blood.” , said Hodžić and that it is an obligation not to forget what happened.

He said that everyone should be proud of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina today and that it is a country for all citizens.

“We never hate anyone, we wish no harm to anyone. We want peace and dignity for every human being, to live in peace and freedom and to live from our work, to be proud of our country, because this country is for everyone,” said Hodžić .

On May 27, 1992, the following were killed by a shell fired from Serbian positions above Sarajevo in Ferhadija Street: Nedžad Abdija, Ismet Asćerić, Ruždija Bektešević, Snježana Biloš, Predrag Bogdanović, Vladimir Bogunović, Vasva Čengić, Gordana Čeklić, Mirsad Fazlagić, Emina Karamustafić. . Izudin Zukić.

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