A delegation from the Centar Municipality, which included the assistant mayor for veteran-disabled and social protection Amra Hašimbegović-Vučković, and municipal councilors Alen Girt and Svjetlana Šošić, laid flowers in front of the memorial plaque on the Suada and Olga Bridge in memory of the first civilian victims of the past war, Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić.
Following this, flowers were laid in front of the "Dobrinja Barricade" memorial and the monument in front of the Police Academy in Vraca.
In remembrance of the two heroines of our city, the former Vrbanja Bridge was renamed the Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić Bridge, who were killed on this day by sniper fire from the SDS paramilitary formations. Suada was a student from Dubrovnik in her fifth year at the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo, while Olga Sučić, a mother of two, worked as an official in the Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Together, they participated in demonstrations for peace. Several tens of thousands of people demanded the prevention of war and opposition to the already prepared aggression against independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The siege of the city, which lasted 1,425 days, is one of the longest in the history of modern warfare, with over 11,000 people killed, including 1,601 children, and 50,000 people wounded, both lightly and severely.
The siege began with the takeover of Sarajevo International Airport by the JNA on the night of April 4 to 5, 1992.