IGK: Public Call to the Political Establishment of Prijedor to Name a Street 'Dr. Esad Sadiković'

(Patria) - You remained silent to our demands for erecting a monument to the murdered children of Prijedor, erecting a monument to civilian victims of genocide in Prijedor, marking the death concentration camps and declaring July 20 a day of mourning - announced from the Institute for Genocide Research Canada.

"You are given another opportunity to show, through a concrete action, the will for a better future for Prijedor.

The Institute for Genocide Research Canada calls on you to name one street in Prijedor 'Dr. Esad Sadiković Street.' The name of the Prijedor legend should adorn a street in the city he loved so much, a city that existed because he was in it, Doctor Eso, a man who was applauded to his death in the Omarska concentration camp.

A once world-renowned intellectual, humanist, member of the international team 'Doctors Without Borders,' holder of a UN blue passport, a specialist in ear, nose, and throat, above all a man, who in his wit was so boundless that even in the last moments of his life he made people laugh, deserves at least a street in his city.

Today, in the small Skopska Street in the Raškovac neighborhood of Prijedor, just 50 meters diagonally from Dr. Eso's house, the whiteness of his headstone screams. Šehid Sadiković Hasib Esad silently testifies to the crime of elitocide as an integral part of genocide.

We propose that this small Skopska Street in the Raškovac neighborhood of Prijedor be renamed to 'Dr. Esad Sadiković Street.' That is the least you can do for him.

Eso is a symbol of the indestructible Bosnian state. Eso's guilt was his humanity, cheerfulness, medical vocation with which he helped thousands of others without asking who they were or what they were, his expertise and title of United Nations expert.

Eso was a man full of love for everything called life. What monstrous characters and minds displayed their impotence and human misery by killing Eso? The criminal desire to liquidate Eso, as a paradigm of the suffering of all intellectuals of Prijedor and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to liquidate everything he and they personify, is only proof of the misery and nothingness of the project.

Therefore, Eso should be classified among heroes so that he, even after his disappearance, can carry out his unique and unrepeatable mission assigned to him by fate and history. Because Eso, the bard of the Prijedor čaršija, but also of all Bosnian čaršijas, is the embodiment of the renaissance of the Bosnian man.

Prijedor forever remains the site of a horrific genocide crime and a symbol of the suffering of the Bosnian citizen, society, and state. In Prijedor, the barbaric campaign of the expansionist regime that created Greater Serbia with fire and sword is rounded off and completed. Are we, after the genocide, aware of what happened to us and what is happening to us?

Do we have the strength to think in a post-genocide existence? What answer to the questions will be depends on the attitude of the political establishment of Prijedor towards these human demands. If you are for a common better future for the city of Prijedor, name one street after a man who, even during his lifetime, became a symbol and legend of Prijedor," the announcement stated.