Mayor of Kragujevac, Mr. Radomir Nikolic with his associates organized traditional reception at the City Hall for the guests and invitees who arrived to Kragujevac this year to pay the tribute to the executed victims of October 21, 1941.
“If on that October 21, 1941 they had not been in front of the shooting squad some of those young boys – pupils of the Grammar school, would have celebrated today with their families their 90th birthday and Kragujevac would have celebrated the day of victory over fascism. On that day 2.794 boys and men were executed. The ratio of 100 executions for one soldier killed. Fear, lethal wounds, suffering and tears of the children, mothers outcry, devastated City. The saddest page in the history of Kragujevac”, said in his address the Mayor Nikolic.
The coincidence or not but Kragujevac is liberated three years later on October 21, 1944 but that date remind unmarked because of the retaliation of Sumarice. May it never repeat ever anywhere. We are to remember and build the bridges, struggle for peace and life, noticed the Mayor Nikolic.
The reception before the unique antiwar manifestation Great School Hour was attended by the Ambassadors of Germany, France, Slovakia and Palestine. The representatives of the Embassies of Austria, Poland, Czech Republic , Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russian Federation, Great Britain and Azerbaijan, delegations of twin and friendly cities with the representatives of the public and politics of Kragujevac.
