Youth Centre: Film about the role of taxi drivers during the Siege of Sarajevo promoted

The film "Humanists and Heroes", which speaks about the role of taxi drivers during the Siege of Sarajevo, was promoted last night at the Youth Centre in Sarajevo, in front of several hundred guests.

Producer Omer Edo Hadrović previously told Patria that Sarajevo taxi drivers were a link without which the defence of Sarajevo, and even BiH, would not have been possible.

- That is why we had an obligation to preserve their memory - Hadrović said.

- It is little known that Sarajevo taxi drivers had 144 martyrs, that among them are 15 Golden Lilies, and that five Sarajevo streets today bear the names of murdered Sarajevo taxi drivers. Finally, taxi radio stations were key to establishing communication from one part of the city to another. Little is known that Sarajevo taxi drivers evacuated the shelled maternity hospital at Jezero. Finally, there is not a single key date related to the war history of Sarajevo in which Sarajevo taxi drivers did not participate.

The film about the role of Sarajevo taxi drivers during the occupation of the city, which lasts an hour and 20 minutes, features statements from the member of the War Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Stjepan Kljuić, the War Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Jusuf Pušina, French journalist Florence Hartmann, and others.

Hadrović and his team from the production company "Haber" have so far made films about the role of women during the Siege of Sarajevo, about the first resistance of Sarajevans on Žuč hill, events in Dobrovoljačka Street during the withdrawal of the JNA army and Sarajevo, as well as a series of other documentary films from wartime Sarajevo.

Hadrović says it is regrettable that the war history of the capital of BiH is being preserved from oblivion by a group of enthusiasts, and not by any institution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, writes Patria.