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Jasenovac victims honored at former death camp site
B92 ^ | April 24, 2017 | BETA

Posted on 04/26/2017 1:05:08 PM PDT by Ravnagora

Photo: Tanjug

Jasenovac victims honored at former death camp site

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday attended a commemoration for the Jasenovac victims, held at the site of one of the death camp's largest killing grounds.

The camp in Donja Gradina - now a town in the Serb Republic (RS), in Bosnia-Herzegovina, near the border with Croatia - was formed in 1942 as part of the Jasenovac complex of concentration camps, operated by the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).

By the end of the Second World War and the disintegration of this Nazi-allied entity, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascists were slaughtered there.

The commemoration in Donja Gradina on Sunday, organized by the governments of Serbia and the RS, was also attended by top officials of the Serb entity including President Milorad Dodik, representatives of the Serbian government, Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej, Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Chairman Mladen Ivanic, representatives of the Serbian Army, Jewish and Roma communities in Bosnia, descendants of the victims of Jasenovac, many citizens, and representatives of the international community in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Serbian government said that Vucic addressed the ceremony marking Day of Remembrance of the genocide in Jasenovac, and said on this occasion that "without the knowledge of the past it will be hard to build a better future for our children."

"It is our obligation to be here for the descendants of Jasenovac victims," he said, and added: "We have to be here so that the events of seven decades ago never get repeated, but also to send a message that we will never forget what happened to us and that we strongly oppose attempts of repeating that."

"Here, in one of the worst places in then occupied Europe, I am grateful to President of the RS Milorad Dodik that Serbia and the RS are together marking the events of the past," the Serbian president-elect said.

Photo: Tanjug

Vucic also criticized the attempts to restore the Ustasha ideology and the revision of history and attempts to rehabilitate Alojzije Stepinac and thus remove responsibility for the crimes committed against the people and clergy of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Serbian government said.

According to Beta, he said that there were still people in Croatia "who wish there were no Serbs there" or their cultural, religious and other symbols, adding that Serbia wanted and had to work with "a normal Croatia," where people will not be judged by whether they are different.

Vucic repeated that Serbia would "never let anyone to have another Bljesak or Oluja" - referring to Croatian military operations against ethnic Serb areas of the country in the mid-1990s - and adding that "staunch opposition must meet anyone who wants to redraw borders in the Balkans, who wants a 'Greater Albania' and some other states, not asking the rest of us, especially not the Serbs whose territory they want to seize."

Milorad Dodik also spoke to say that the Serb entity "has no intentions of destabilizing the region, that it was committed to lasting peace, but that it wanted Jasenovac to be marked as a site of genocide against the Serb people, not as a site of victims of war."

Dodik said that the RS was created "so that Serbs there could be free, and refused to shake hands with US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Maureen Cormack, whom he has declared a persona non grata in the RS, "blaming her for his being blacklisted in the US," according to Beta.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: croatia; jasenovac; serbs; wwii

1 posted on 04/26/2017 1:05:09 PM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; vooch; ...

Ping.


2 posted on 04/26/2017 1:08:09 PM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora

refused to shake hands with US Ambassador...

Anyone know what that’s all about?

Didn’t know there was a Camp there. Terrible days.


3 posted on 04/26/2017 1:10:06 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

dp0622, RS President Dodik was invited to President Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, however, he was “not allowed to come”. “RS” is the Bosnian Serb entity in Bosnia.


4 posted on 04/26/2017 1:14:26 PM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora

Thanks for the back info.


5 posted on 04/26/2017 1:16:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Ravnagora

Vjecnaja pamjat!!!!


6 posted on 04/26/2017 1:29:06 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

In English, please?


7 posted on 04/26/2017 2:57:46 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: submarinerswife

“Vecnjaja Pamjat” means “Memory Eternal” in Serbian.


8 posted on 04/26/2017 3:13:00 PM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora

Correction: Should read “Vjecnaja Pamjat”.


9 posted on 04/26/2017 3:14:16 PM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: submarinerswife

May their Memory be Eternal!


10 posted on 04/26/2017 4:57:57 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Ravnagora

Gudovac anniversary this week also

the beginning of the holocaust was at Gudovac

memory eternal !


11 posted on 04/26/2017 8:02:41 PM PDT by vooch (America First)
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To: Ravnagora

Very fitting.


12 posted on 04/26/2017 8:05:36 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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