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SARAJEVO, May 9 (FENA) - Hundreds gathered on the streets of Sarajevo on Thursday to mark the Day of Victory over Fascism and said that the anti-fascism ideas very much alive today. The central event was held at the WWII Vraca Memorial Park in the hilltops of Sarajevo.
Several hundred participants gathered at the Baščarsija square in Sarajevo Old Town and took a walk through central streets towards the Eternal Flame Memorial and further to the statue of Josip Broz Tito in the Sarajevo University Campus.
They laid the flowers at each of the memorials they passed by, paying respects to the victims of fascism.
Organizers said that the March of anti-fascists is growing into a regional event as people from all parts of the region, former Yugoslav republics, are joining the like-minded people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Anti-fascism ideas did not go away with the fall of the former state, they said.
Representatives of the state, entity and cantonal authorities laid flowers at the Eternal Flame Memorial emphasizing that the victory over fascism was extremely important for all citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that Bosnian society must be built on this heritage.
The central ceremony marking the Victory Day took place in the WWII Vraca Memorial Park where the eternal flame was lit again after 27 years.
Raif Dizdarević, a member of the former Yugoslav Presidency and participant of the people’s liberation war, who had the honor to set the eternal flame again, said this memorial was a witness of courage, heroism and sacrifice for freedom, justice and better life.
The Sarajevo Canton Prime Minister Edin Forto said that restoration of the Vraca Memorial Park is a symbolic act, which obliges us “learn more about the battles that were fought and those struggles that will continue in the future.”
He warned that the fascism was never defeated but that it always comes back in different forms.
“We are witnessing it today not only here but in entire Europe. It is our task to never end the fight against fascism,” said Forto.
(FENA) S. R.
