"My brother would be 38 today. My brother would have his own family today."
With these words, Duška Jovanović addressed those gathered in Belgrade at the commemoration meeting on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the murder of the Roma boy Dušan Jovanović.
On October 18, 1997, he was beaten to death in front of the building where he lived by two members of the neo-Nazi "skinhead" movement.
The reason they intercepted and brutally beat the boy, who was 13 years old at the time, was his skin color.
A quarter of a century later, his sister, with the support of the non-governmental Initiative A11, submitted a proposal to the City Administration of the capital of Serbia that the park in the so-called Mitic hole near Slavija Square, in the immediate vicinity of Dušan's house, be named after him.
