Today, the delegations of OBNOR 1941-1945 Capital City Podgorica and the delegation of OBNOR Zeta laid flowers at the memorial plaque to the fallen Zeta patriots in the Local Community of Jedinstvo, SOBNOR announced.
The eight honorable heroes were shot by the occupiers and domestic traitors after their return as delegates to the first session of the Land Anti-Fascist Council of People's Liberation for Montenegro and Boka on December 17 and 19, 1943, the statement said.
"We have gathered today in front of this building, to commemorate this painful day together when on this day and in this area in 1943, eight patriots-honorable heroes from the Zeta area were brutally shot by occupiers and local traitors, who were delegates to the first session of the National Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Montenegro, who gave their lives for freedom and human dignity and who went to their deaths without the slightest fear. Today, at this place, we bowed to the shadows and deeds of the fallen honorable heroes: Mijović Spas, Dobrović Rak, Stanović Zak, Radičevoć Vasilija, Mijović Petar, Maraš Risto, Stanković Jovan and Markuš Aleksa, freedom fighters, and in their memory, we laid flowers and paid tribute to them at this place," said Slobodan Vukotić, president of the OBNOR 1941-1945 Zeta, in his address to those present.
The meeting was also attended by the President of SOBNOR of Montenegro, Radojica Radojević, Vice President Aleksandar Maraš, and Secretary Radmila Čagorović.
Vukotić pointed out that the population of this area, like the entire Podgorica, has always proudly cultivated an anti-fascist tradition.
At the end, Vukotić greeted those present, with the wish that the atrocities against innocent people who were shot would never be forgotten or repeated.
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