We Were Just Children
Memorial to the 89 children killed during the NATO bombing of Serbia.

📜 Memorial to the 89 children killed during the NATO bombing of Serbia.
🔍 Unveiled in 2000, it features a bronze sculpture of Milica Rakić, a three-year-old victim.

About

The monument commemorates Milica Rakić, who died on April 17, 1999, when shrapnel hit her family's apartment near Batajnica Air Base. She was one of 89 children killed during the NATO air campaign, a tragedy widely covered in Serbian media but not by many Western outlets. The monument in Tašmajdan Park bears the inscription "We were just children" in both Serbian and English.

📍 Location

Tašmajdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia.

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