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gained a widespread following. In 2014, a commemorative fountain was dedicated in Rakić's memory in
Batajnica. The following year, a new sculpture of Rakić was unveiled in Tašmajdan Park to replace the one that had previously been stolen. The Little Milica Rakić Park in Batajnica was also established
212:. Rakić's death was widely covered in the Serbian media. Her death was not reported by most major Western news outlets. The final NATO report on the bombing of Yugoslavia made no mention of Rakić's death, even under the category of "special incidents".
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Between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on 17 April 1999, three-year-old Rakić was struck by shrapnel while in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment at 8 Dimitrije
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and financed by donations that it had received from its readers. The sculpture was stolen twice, once in 2000 and again in 2001, after which it was never recovered.
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exploded next to the apartment in which Rakić was living. The incident marked the first NATO use of cluster munitions in
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