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SARAJEVO, May 10 (FENA) - A delegation of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) led by President Bakir Izetbegović laid flowers at the Vraca Memorial Park on Saturday to mark the Victory Day over fascism.
On this occasion, Izetbegović stated that it seems that, unfortunately, fascism will exist as long as humans do.
"Bosnia and Herzegovina and especially the city of Sarajevo have always posed a provocation for the fascists because of the inclusiveness of this country and this multiethnic city in which for hundreds of years churches, mosques and synagogues thrived side by side and people have lived together," said Izetbegović.
He added that the Vraca Memorial Park and May 9 are the right place and time to remember the people who lost their lives because they resisted fascism.
"We are standing at the place of former Austro-Hungarian fortress that the fascists on two occasions occupied and killed anti-fascists from 1942 to 1945. This place commemorates 9,091 killed Sarajevans in the NDH occupation of this city, and then from 1992 to 1995, other fascists terrorized the civilians in Sarajevo from this very spot," Izetbegović emphasized.
He pointed out that in 1945 the communists defeated the fascists, and that in 1995 they were defeated by the Golden Lilies, the Army of the RBiH.
"The names of my two uncles are also inscribed here, one of whom was caught and killed in Jasenovac at the age of 17, and the other was captured before the end of the Second World War and killed in the Lepoglava prison," Izetbegović underlined.
He emphasized that his father was recruited into the partisans as a nineteen-year-old, unlike the first two who voluntarily joined the partisans. Izetbegović added that his family members served exclusively in the partisan army in the Second World War.
Izetbegović assessed that paying tribute to the Bleiburg victims over time has turned into rehabilitation and celebration of the Ustasha regime and that Sarajevo should be the very last place where this should be done.
"That was the worst period in the history of Sarajevo, and when we talk about the Ustasha movement and that period in history, it would only be decent to talk about the victims of Maks Luburić," said Izetbegović.
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