The President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, Dr. Nenad Stevandic, attended the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide against Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia and the 80th anniversary of the breakout of inmates from the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Donja Gradina Memorial Area near Kozarska Dubica
The commemoration was also attended by the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, the Serbian member and chair of the BiH Presidency, Zeljka Cvijanovic, the Prime Minister of Srpska, Radovan Viskovic, ministers in the governments of Srpska and Serbia, the President of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, numerous diplomatic representatives, citizens, students, and descendants of the victims.
As part of the commemoration, wreaths will be laid at the Cemetery Topola, a memorial service will be held, and the officials will address the present people.
Wreaths were laid at Topole Graveyard for half a million Serbs, 40,000 Roma, and 33,000 Jews killed in the Jasenovac system of concentration camps of the Independent State of Croatia, after which a memorial service was held.
The wreath and roses were laid by the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, the chairperson and Serbian member of the BiH Presidency, Zeljka Cvijanovic, the President of the National Assembly of Srpska, Nenad Stevandic, and the Prime Minister of Srpska, Radovan Viskovic, as well as the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, with the Serbian delegation.
Flowers and wreaths were laid by camp survivors, a delegation of Jewish communities and organizations, a delegation of the Roma community, Israel's ambassador to BiH Galit Peleg, representatives of the Russian Embassy in BiH, representatives of the Hungarian Embassy in BiH.
Flowers were also laid by the delegation of the People's Council of the Republic of Srpska, ministers in the Government of the Republic of Srpska, ministers in the Council of Ministers, members of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, representatives of municipalities and cities of the Republic of Srpska and Serbia, representatives of the Third Infantry (Republic Srpska) Regiment of the Armed Forces of BiH, the delegation of the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Army, the delegation of SUBNOR and other delegations and individuals.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said that nowhere has the human race come so close to hell as it happened in Jasenovac.
"I am proud to be with you today in Donja Gradina, because every year we change the fate that they have assigned us, we show that we will live," emphasized Vucic.
He asked who allowed the "Balkan Auschwitz", as Gideon Greif called it, to operate until May 4.
"How is it possible that the partisan brigades did not attack Jasenovac? Who allowed the work of that miracle of the camp to continue and continue, and that almost none of the Serbs survived? The Red Army entered Auschwitz, nobody entered Jasenovac," said Vucic.
The President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said today in Donja Gradina that this place is a symbol of suffering, which testifies to systematic killing, and that there are monsters who wanted to destroy an entire nation, but that today's gathering is proof that this is not possible.
"People were systematically killed here, because that was the official ideology of the Independent State of Croatia /NDH/. People were killed in terrible torture. They put a two-year-old child in a sack together with a cat, tied them up, and threw them alive into the Sava River. They competed in inventing methods of exterminating the people," said Dodik.
He emphasized that this is a place that speaks for itself, where no speaker is needed to hear what happened here.
"Throughout all the Serbian settlements and villages in the fascist NDH, there is no place where the villagers were not killed - Lijevce Polje, Krajina, Lika, Herzegovina, are full of moans sent into the future to testify that there are monsters in the world who wanted to kill an entire nation. We are witnesses that this is not possible," said Dodik.
The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the NDH (1941-1945) and 80 years since the breakout of the inmates from the Jasenovac Concentration Camp in Kozarska Dubica is organized by the Committee for the Commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the NDH.
