Monument:
Central Memorial

Location: Derventa, town centre, Pravoslavlje Square

Entity: Republika Srpska

Erected in year: 2002

Text on the monument:

On a plaque on the pedestal:

"...these same fields watered with the blood of some
will sprout with another Eucharist and bread;
and the footprints of those who fall today
will light up the sky tomorrow..."
Jovan Dučić

To the soldiers of the homeland war
Derventa; 2002

On the plaque at the end of the pedestal:

Pravoslavlje Square
Construction site
of the memorial
for fallen soldiers
the liberators of Derventa

29 September 1999

In memory of:

Fallen Soldiers of the RS Army

Ethnic group: Predominantly Serbs

Victims are from the area of: Derventa municipality

Dimensions: Monument - width 4 x 2.4 m

Built by the means of:

At the initiative of families of fallen soldiers and the Veterans Organisation of the Derventa municipality, with funding from the Municipality and the RS Government.

Authorship: Miodrag Živković, academic sculptor from Belgrade

Commemorations: For holding the Orthodox memorial service for fallen soldiers

Data source(s): Derventa Municipality , Local partners, Fieldwork

Photographed: 10 March 2013

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