Monument:
To Croat Homeland War Victims from the Busovača Municipality

Location: Busovača, Prvi ožujak Street, town centre

Entity: Federation of Bosnia and Hezegovina

Erected in year: 1998

Text on the monument:

"If you do not belong to your own, you belong to everyone."

(names, years of birth and years of death of those killed and missing)

Survival was not given to us as a gift.
We fought for it
through the ordeal and suffering
of the Croat people of Central Bosnia
for the survival and to defend our homes
and the dignity of the Croat man."

In memory of:

Civilians and soldiers

Ethnic group: Croats

Victims are from the area of: Local community

Dimensions: 15 x 15 m; height: 5 m; 400 m² including the lawn

Built by the means of:

Busovača Association of Volunteers of the Homeland War and the Municipality

Authorship: Nikola Dominović with expert support from the Komunalac construction company

Interpretation of the idea:

"A symbol of the sacrifice and of the prayer that it does not repeat itself." Direct quotation from questionnaire. Source: Busovača Association of Volunteers of the Homeland War

Commemorations: For commemorating anniversaries of massacres and for All Saint‘s Day but it also serves as a meeting place for young people and for evening strolls.

Data source(s): Busovača Association of Volunteers of the Homeland War , Local partners, Fieldwork

Photographed: 24 November 2012

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