ŠKOBO: GLORIFYING AGGRESSORS INCOMPREHENSIBLE

ISTOČNO SARAJEVO, FEBRUARY 26 /SRNA/ – It is incomprehensible that one would glorify aggressors, even if we were to understand that one has a submissive character, historian Lazar Škobo told SRNA, reacting to the initiative adopted by the Sarajevo City Council to restore the monument to the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie.

According to him, there are two traditions in BiH, both based on centuries-long historical experience.

"One is the Serb tradition, representing the suffering and struggle of our people for freedom, demonstrated in all wars; from the continuous fight for liberation during Ottoman rule, to the First and Second World Wars and the Defensive-Patriotic War, in which the Serbs lost more than two million people in a single century," Škobo said.

The other tradition, Škobo emphasized, is a submissive one, maintained by those who massively supported all aggressor incursions into BiH from the Middle Ages to the present day.

"Even if we could understand someone’s submissive character and a fifth-columnist stance, it is completely incomprehensible that such intents are publicly glorified," Škobo concluded.

The Sarajevo City Council today adopted an initiative to restore the monument to the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo /former Princip’s Bridge/.

The monument was removed from the Latin Bridge site and destroyed after the end of the First World War and the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.