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Our Party - Reduction of area of Butmir archaeological site is unacceptable

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, April 23 (FENA) - Our Party finds unacceptable the reduction of the area of the Butmir archaeological site on the basis of arbitrary and scientifically unfounded attitudes.

“It is a direct attack on BiH’s cultural and historical heritage. Until every inch of the archaeological site is analyzed, it is immoral and illegal to issue a construction consent, which is ultimately followed by a construction permit,” the party said.

They remind that the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a presentation on 13 April in the building of Ilidža Municipality on the amendments to the Decision on the designation of the archaeological area of the prehistoric settlement in Butmir as a national monument of BiH.

“The modifications foresee to reduce the protected area from 65,000 to 8,000 square meters. The Municipality plans to sell the unprotected area to foreign investors to build settlements. The whole process of making the amendments was initiated at the initiative of the Municipality, which the Commission should not have taken into account,” Our Party stated.

“The Municipality of Ilidža is not the State Archaeological Institute. They do not even have archaeologists in their jobs systematization,  there is no basis for seeking exclusion of certain plots at their own discretion, and there is no reason why the Commission, which is above the Municipality, is meeting the demands of the municipal mayor,” Our Party vice-president Nasiha Pozder said, adding that this legacy is not only Ilidža’s but BiH’s as well.

Our Party also finds questionable the constitutionality of the Commission itself, which operates with three members instead of five, and also questions whether the archeological research had been conducted on the basis of expert criteria.

“When deciding on the importance of the goods, the Commission seeks to justify its decision with the stance that archeological artefacts in the affected area have been flooded and that the place where they were found is not their original location, but this stance is not based on scientific measures and methods of examination of the archaeological site and it cannot be taken as relevant,” Ms. Pozder said.

(FENA)
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