The Memorial Center of Republika Srpska and the City of Laktaši signed a memorandum of cooperation.

The Director of the Memorial Center of Republika Srpska, Denis Bojić, and the Mayor of Laktaši, Miroslav Bojić, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation, which formalizes joint work on preserving the culture of remembrance and collecting testimonies about the suffering of the Serbian people during the Defensive-Fatherland War. The signing of the Memorandum was also attended by the President of the Republika Srpska Association of Families of Captured and Killed Fighters and Missing Civilians, Isidora Graorac.

The Mayor of Laktaši, Miroslav Bojić, emphasized that the City of Laktaši supports the project of recording audio-visual testimonies implemented by the Memorial Center of Republika Srpska. “We support this project and I believe that all families of the fallen will respond and provide their testimonies, and that all these recordings will be shown to younger generations in schools and all other educational institutions through documentary films.” He expressed confidence that this project will be supported by all local communities in Republika Srpska and stressed that this is the only way to preserve the memory of the Serbian heroes who gave their lives for Republika Srpska.

The Director of the Memorial Center of Republika Srpska, Denis Bojić, stated that the goal of the Center is to record all possible and available testimonies from the closest relatives. “Testimonies should become part of the largest digital database on the suffering of the Serbian people. Digital testimonies reduce the possibility of manipulation and historical revisionism,” Bojić told reporters. He thanked the Mayor of Laktaši for supporting the activities and the project of the Memorial Center of Republika Srpska, in which, as he noted, a large number of cities and municipalities are participating — Banja Luka, Bijeljina, Doboj, Bratunac, Zvornik, Istočno Sarajevo — places where a large number of members of the Serbian people were killed.

Savo Bilić, the father of a fallen fighter of the Army of Republika Srpska, said that this project is important for preserving the memory of the fallen Serbian fighters.

The President of the Republika Srpska Association of Families of Captured and Killed Fighters and Missing Civilians, Isidora Graorac, emphasized that the culture of remembrance is an important segment of the work on this project that everyone will be proud of. “This will prevent others from writing our history and manipulating the number of Serbian victims.”

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