Stećak – Simbol Bosne

Stećak – Simbol Bosne

Stećci za listu UNESCO

Stećci - nadgrobni spomenici onih koji se izmeÄ‘u jedanaestog i petnaestog vijeka nijednom carstvu ni uticaju nisu priklonili, već su ostali vjerni sebi i onome što su samo u sebi u Bosni mogli naći.

I sada, nakon ovog krvavog ratnog iskustva Bosne, više i iskrenije nego ikada prije, vjerujem da oni koji su znali tako vjerovati, klesati, voljeti, pisati i umirati ne treba da se plaše nijedne budućnosti, ni oni ni one generacije koje su ih naslijedile.

 « Danas Bosnom jašu savremeni jahači Apokalipse: smrt, razaranje, etničko čišÄ‡enje i laž. Razara se sve što su hiljadama godina ljudski duh i mišići naših pradjedova stvarali i stvorili. Dan za danom, mjesec za mjesecom, godinu za godinom iza njih ostaju razoreni gradovi, spaljena sela, mrtvi koji se pretvaraju u statističke izvještaje. Sa svakim novim brojem te besramne svjetske statistike bešÄašÄ‡a, svakodnevno bestidno publikovane preko redija i televizije, gradi se trajni spomenik neljuduskosti onih koji su se ljudima, pravovjernim i nacijom izgraÄ‘enom na smrti i sili htjeli zvati. A istina je: Tu na tom uistinu geografski malom prostoru Bosne, gdje su se vijekovima sudarale egoistične namjere različitih kultura i civilizacija, grčko-helenističke i rimskoetrurske, gdje je bila granica Istočnog i Zapadnog rimskog carstva, gdje su u zagrljaju zauvijek ostali izmiješani islam i hrišÄ‡anstvo, tu je ostalo rasuto na desetine hiljada stećaka ». Nenad Azijus Tanović

Tombstone - The symbol of Bosnia

Nomination of B&H Stećci for UNESCO List

Stećci - are the tombstones of those who lived between the 11th and 15th centuries and refused to swear allegiance to any kingdom or to be swayed by any influence

Even now, after Bosnia’s bloody experience of war, I believe more strongly and more honestly than ever before that those who had such faith, who carved, loved, wrote, and died as they did, need not tremble before an uncertain future; neither they nor the generations who have inherited them.

“The modern-day Horsemen of the Apocalypse—death, destruction, ethnic cleansing and lies—ride over Bosnia today. Everything that the human spirit and labor of our greatgrandfathers created over thousands of years is being destroyed. Day after day, month after month, year after year, they leave behind devastated towns, torched villages, and dead bodies, fated only to become statistics. Every new figure in those indecent worldwide statistics of infamy, proclaimed shamelessly over the radio and television, becomes a permanent monument to the inhumanity of those who wanted to be known as a righteous people, a nation, though, built only on death and force. And the truth is: Here, in Bosnia, within a truly small geographical area, where over the centuries the egoistical intentions of different cultures and civilizations, the Greek-Hellenic and Roman-Etruscan have collided, where the boundary between the Eastern and Western Roman Empire was drawn, where Islam and Christianity have always remained in an entangled embrace, here, tens of thousands stećci lie scattered”. Nenad Azijus Tanović