President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik told SRNA that the youngest Serb soldier Spomenko Gostić, who fell as a 15-year-old by a Muslim shell defending his village and home, was and will remain a true hero of the past Defensive-Patriotic War a war whose name must never be forgotten.
“Today in 1993, Spomenko together with his five comrades stood eternal guard. They fell by a Muslim shell defending their village, their homes, their fields. Each and every Serb sacrifice is great and must never be forgotten, but special and great is a sacrifice of a child, whose childhood was cruelly interrupted, and who, at the age of less than 15, met the world in its worst and darkest form.
He became an orphan in the Defensive-Patriotic War. In the end he lost the only one he had – his grandmother. He stayed alone in his Jovići village on Mount Ozren. After all those tragedies the child’s heart experienced and survived, the 15-year-old boy refused to leave the horrors of war and became a soldier of the Srpska Army side by side with his older neighbours. He did not want to leave his Republic, believing that one day he would be living freely in Jovići and his Mount Ozren. Unfortunately, a Muslim shell ended a young life and boyish dreams of freedom and a better life,” Dodik emphasized in SRNA statement.
The president of Srpska pointed out that Spomenko’s sacrifice is huge for all of us who live in Republika Srpska today, adding that he is a bright example of a Serb soldier, heroism, courage and Serb patriotism.
Dodik says that today, 31 years after the death of this young but great hero, the words with which he addressed to his comrades ring: “Hold on bravely, don’t run away from the line and fight properly!”, stressing that this message is still valid today. “Spomenko’s message to his comrades is also a message to us to protect Republika Srpska, not to run away from the line of its defense, to fight peacefully and preserve what Spomenko and his comrades defended in the war. These are big words of a small boy with a strong meaning that we must remember and fulfill,” said Dodik.
He emphasized that for the sake of Spomenko boy who was looking forward to life, as well as all the killed and wounded Serb soldiers, who spent the best years of their lives in the trenches defending their homes and the most sacred – the fatherland, no one should and has no right to succumb to pressure and blackmail by internationals and those who would most like to see the Serb people again in the refugee convoys. “They are an eternal reminder to us that we have to preserve Republika Srpska that we created in peace and defended in war, which is why Republika Srpska must always be our the first as it is our security and our freedom,” said the president of Srpska.
