Subject: BOSNIA: 160.000 CITIZENS OF SARAJEVO HAVE ALREADY SIGNED A PETITION TO RUN THE BLOCKADE OF THE CITY
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AND AGAINST THE ETNICHAL DIVISION. THE COLLECTING OF SIGNATURES WILL BE
CONTINUED IN SARAJEVO AND OTHER EUROPEAN CITIES TILL THE AND OF DECEMBER.
THE PETITION WILL BE GIVEN ON THE DAY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS, AT 10.12.94., TO
THE SECRETAR OF UN, TO THE PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND TO THE
CONTACT-GROUP FOR BOSNIA.
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PETITION
We are the citizens of Sarajevo, troubled by many uncertainties which could
the future of our city, and disturbed by the lack of progress towards a
solution. In order to guarantee the future security of Sarajevo, and the
right of its people to a civilized life,
WE HEREBY DEMAND
the lifting of the blokade and the demilitarization of the city.
We make this demand in our own names, in the names of the many victims of
the brutal war against Sarajevo, and in the names of our descendants. After
all the agony caused by physical destruction, we are now being threatened
with the permanent partition of our city, which would entail the
destruction of our distinctive way of life, grounded in diversity and
tolerance, which the people of Sarajevo have cherished for centuries. Such
a partition would represent not merely the artificial division of a
historical unified city, but a line of cleavage segregating different
civilizations, religions, and cultures newly inscribed on the soil of
modern Europe.
We reject this prospect. We invite the citizens of Sarajevo and the entire
world community to join us in a new struggle, a second battle for Sarajevo,
a defensive battle against the spiritual and moral degradation ad ethnic
animosity that would accompany such a partition. We are determined to
preserve the cultural life diversity and tolerance that our ancestors
constructed and that we ourselves have nurtured and preserved. In support
of the position adopted by the Municipal Assembly of Sarajevo, the city's
higest authority, we therefore issue the following
DECLARATION
for a free and unified Sarajevo
1. We are irrevocably committed to a free, open and undivided Sarajevo. We
will permit noone to partition our city for any reason, especially at a
time when the entire civilized world is tending toward greater
inter-cultural collaboration and integration.
2. We are firmly convinced that our life of diversity and tolerance is a
priceless inheritance from our past, and the only secure foundation for a
paceful and happy future for all citizens of Sarajevo and
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
3. We demandthe just and timely punishment of all war criminals, and the
safe return of all exiles refugees. Both measures are essentional for the
restoration of normal life and the renewal of our tradition of multi-ethnic
harmony.
4. We unreservedly accept the Charter of United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights as the basis for our actions, and as criteria
of justice in social relationships. We call upon the international
community for help in determing the future of Sarajevo and
Bosnia-Herzegovina on the basis of these principles. We are convinced that
only a democratically structured polity can guarantee the dignity, preserve
the freedom, and protect the interests of all our citizens.
At this critical moment, all of us - citizens of the world community as
well as citizens of Sarajevo - bear responsability for the fate of these
civilized values.
THE CITIZENS OF SARAJEVO
