Rade Aleksić, the father of Srđan Aleksić, who was killed in Trebinje in 1993 for defending his Bosniak neighbor Alen Glavović, said that his son was a symbol of unity, love and harmony.
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Rade Aleksić is in an interview for the portal Autonomy from Novi Sad said that, although 31 years have passed since Srđan’s murder, every anniversary is difficult for him.
“It makes me uneasy, although I am aware of everything. What people say – the years go by. Yes, yes… But it is always new. I am sorry that this world, as it is, does not cultivate man and does not cultivate freedom. We are so crazy and captured by politics and the people who lead it, that we are brought into such a situation that we cheer for war. And Srđ’s message was: be against all evil, and especially against war.”Aleksic said.
He added that war is “an evil that brings poverty to the majority and wealth to individuals”.
“And war also serves to make certain people rich. Unfortunately, over people’s lives, property, and health… I’m thinking: what would happen if money were spent on a human way of distributing life on earth? We wouldn’t be thinking about paradise then. in heaven, but we would have it here. But, no. We have hell here, and that’s why people believe that from this hell they will go to heaven. And that’s why faith is easy to maintain, but it is abused, quarrels people and leads them to wars.”said Rade Aleksić.
According to him, we have not learned anything from the wars of the 1990s.
“Unfortunately, today there is a bigger wall between the peoples, because some stories about the Ustashas, about the Chetniks, were constantly heating up, and more and more, and more. The young world is trying to meet, but they are cut off by events, cut off by politics, they don’t let them meet. Young people from Trebinje work in Dubrovnik and they’re fine there. But, again, Dubrovnik – Trebinje, it’s a fortress. It’s like that everywhere, unfortunately,” assessed Rade Aleksić.
He added that he is regularly visited by Alen Glavović, whose life Srđan saved and who lives in Sweden with his family.
Rade Aleksić said that, since the murder of his son, he had been thinking a lot about man’s relationship to freedom.
“I understood that a man should live, that he is a fighter, that he is a creator. So I behaved that way”he stated.
On January 21, 1993, Srđan Aleksić saw that in the center of Trebinje, near the police station, members of the Republika Srpska Army were beating Alen Glavović, a Bosniak from Trebinje whom Srđan knew.
He approached them and told them to leave him alone. They then knocked Srdjan to the ground and beat him to death with rifle butts and military cleats. He fell into a coma from which he did not wake up. He died six days later.
“We inform relatives, friends, godfathers and honest citizens that our native Radov Aleksić tragically ended his young life at the age of 27 while fulfilling his human duty…” it was written on the blue-framed death certificate in Trebinje.
Many recognitions and awards for human rights bear the name of Srđan Aleksić.
The Helsinki Citizens’ Parliament of Banja Luka, the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina, the Lupiga portal from Zagreb, the Media Institute of Montenegro and the Peace Network from Bosnia and Herzegovina established the “Srđan Aleksić” regional journalism award.
On the initiative of the coalition of non-governmental organizations Citizen Vojvodina, Novi Sad named a passage in the very center of the city after Srđan Aleksić, and several other cities in the region named streets after Srđan Aleksić.
Radio and Television of Serbia recorded the documentary film “Srđo”, and the director Srdan Golubović made the feature film “Circles” based on the life of Srđan Aleksić.
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