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MOSTAR, January 28 (FENA) - The 26th anniversary of the death of three Italian state television (RAI) reporters, Marco Luchetta, Dario D’Angelo and Alessandro Ota Oto, who were killed on January 28, 1994 in Mostar by a mortar shell, was marked today by laying flowers at the site of their death.
The commemoration was attended by Italian Ambassador to BiH Nicola Minasi, representatives of the City of Mostar, the OSCE Mission to BiH, the ‘Open Heart House’ day center and residents of the Mostar Children's Home.
Speaking about the tragic event, Ambassador Minasi recalled that the killed journalists came to Mostar during the war to spread the information on what was happening in Mostar, especially the children of the city.
“We are marking the anniversary of the death of our Italian journalists, but we also want to pay tribute to all the innocent victims of the war. Humanity is the first casualty of the war and this year, when we mark the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide and the Dayton Peace Accords, we must pay tribute to all innocent victims, regardless of "the side they were on,” Minasi said.
He also said that the most important thing was to work for the protection of peace.
“We want to be the defenders of peace in society and to work together in protecting peace on the path to the European Union,” Minasi said.
The anniversary was attended by representatives from the cultural, public and political life of Mostar, as well as by numerous citizens.
On January 28, 1994, RAI journalists were killed in front of a building in Braće Fejić Street by a mortar shell that was fired from the western part of the city.
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