Sarajevo residents and City officials marked the Ferhadija street massacre which left 26 dead and 108 wounded after a shell fired by the Bosnian Serb army landed between the numbers five and 12, on May 27, 1992, Anadolu Agency reported Wednesday.
After the delegations laid flowers and held a prayer at the memorial, Ramiza Karamustafic, the mother of Emina Karamustafic who had died on that day, said everything happened instantaneously.
“I used to live here, my mother-in-law had an apartment. My daughter Emina died here. She was 13 and a half years old. We were standing in line. There were a lot of people. Then a neighbour from Vogosca came and said that they (the Bosnian Serb army) attacked there, and I am from Vogosca as well. I went to Mihrivode (a Sarajevo neighbourhood). On my way back from there, four shells landed here,” Karamustafic recalled.
When she returned, she said, everything had already been cleaned up and she found only her daughter's running shoe.
Head of the Association of Parents of Murdered Children of the besieged Sarajevo “92-95” Fikret Grabovica said that these dates and horrific events should be observed in as many numbers as possible.
“This is the day when thousands of citizens should be here thus contributing to keeping the truth from oblivion and preserving the culture of remembrance,” Grabovica said, noting the importance of nurturing the culture of remembrance.
