Monument to fallen Krajina soldiers, War memorial in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Monument to fallen Krajina soldiers is a war memorial in Banja Luka built around a central stone structure that takes the shape of a bullet when seen from above. Its four sides are covered with socialist-realist reliefs showing scenes from the National Liberation War.
The memorial was built in 1961 to honor soldiers from the Krajina region who fought during the Second World War against the occupying forces and their allies. It was erected at a time when Yugoslavia actively shaped its public memory around the wartime resistance movement.
The hill is called Šehitluci after a turbe of three unknown heroes who died fighting the Austrians, which stood here until the end of the First World War. The drawings inside the memorial are by Ismet Mujezinović, transferred onto stone panels of 35 by 35 cm by Mehmed Akšamija using silkscreen printing, then assembled into a composition about 3.85 m high and 25 m long.
The memorial stands about 3 miles (5 km) from central Banja Luka, so a car or local bus is the easiest way to get there. Once on site, the open grounds allow visitors to walk freely around the structure without any barriers.
The hill was called Šehitluci until the end of the First World War because a turbe of three unknown heroes who died fighting the Austrians stood there. The memorial was unveiled on 27 July 1961, the Day of the Uprising of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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