Memorial to all Rama casualties


A memorial to all Rama victims was commemorated on Sunday, October 13th at Šćit. On that occasion, Holy Mass was led by OFM Drago Pranješ, guardian from Guča Gora, with seven priests concelebrating.

After the Holy Mass, OFM Andrija Jozić, the parish priest of Rama-Šćit, thanked everyone for their togetherness and prayer, and encouraged ongoing prayer for all the dead, and especially for those people of Rama killed by the Chetniks in early October 1942.

The priests and the believers then headed in procession to the churchyard at Rama’s Cross, where the names of all the victims were inscribed. They prayed together for the souls of the deceased.

In the shadow of the Rama’s Cross, 1 366 victims of the Second World War, the Cross Way and the afterwar, and 163 victims of the last war are written in bronze.

The slaughter of about 1 000 people, mostly Catholics and to a lesser extent Muslims, was committed by Chetniks. It was the largest Chetnik massacre against Croats carried out on October 8th and 9th 1942.

Only men were killed, and the criteria for killing was an Italian small rifle - if the boy was taller than the rifle, he was killed, and if he was shorter, he would remain alive.