STEVANDIĆ: CULTURE OF REMEMBRANCE TO BE STRONGER THAN ANY EVILDOER

BANJA LUKA, APRIL 23 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić has said today that the Serb culture of remembrance should be stronger than any evildoer, as in this way they remind those with an unclean conscience of the decision that caused the suffocation of 12 Banja Luka babies.

Stevandić said that the attitude towards Republika Srpska could be seen from the decision of those who banned the delivery of oxygen to the babies; the fact that there is a lack of conscience even today is shown by the fact that they never showed up at the place where the memorial to 12 babies was erected.

He recalled that former high representative Valentin Inzko said 10 days ago that life should be blocked from Brčko on towards this entire part of Republika Srpska.

"This shows that criminality has no repentance and that similar ideas still live today. That's why we must be determined and brave, firm, not to allow evil history to repeat, regardless of what those who have no repentance and no shame for the death of 12 Banja Luka babies want," Stevandić told thr press.

Today, Stevandić laid a wreath at the 12 Babies Memorial in Banja Luka on the occasion of the City Day.

City manager Mirna Savić-Banjac says the crime against Banja Luka's babies must never be forgotten, and that the culture of remembrance should be nurtured more.

Banjac pointed out that the young generation must be educated much more when it comes to historical events.

The programme marking the City Day and 80 years since the liberation from fascism foresees the laying of wreaths at the Memorial ti the Fallen Fighters of the Second World War in the Fallen Soldiers Square.

Banja Luka celebrates City Day in memory of April 22, 1945, when it was liberated in World War II.