03.10.2016.
Paying Tribute to victims of the Second World War
A commemorative ceremony dedicated to preserving the memory of tens of thousands of people brutally killed in that place during the Second World War has been held today, in Jajinci.
The commemorative ceremony was attended by Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Defence Minister Zoran Djordjevic, Serbian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff, General Ljubisa Dikovic, representatives of the Serbian National Assembly, the Serbian Government, the City of Belgrade, members of survivors of concentration camps and the descendants of the victims, representatives of religious and ethnic communities and the diplomatic corps.
On that occasion, President Nikolic said that the place of suffering in Jajinci is eternal home for more than 60 000 victims, killed only because they belonged to wrong nation, religion, or found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. The judgement of conscience, is beyond all human judgments, President Nikolic said, and therefore, but also for the future, we must always return to the facts of history, recalling the horrors committed and significance that Jajinci memorial park has for the collective memory and all the victims; for such crimes not to be repeated.
"We wish to be a full member of the European Union, but we will never recognise the independence of Kosovo and Metohija. We are fighting for the right to choose our friends ourselves. We are waging uncompromising fight against the already clearly expressed intention for us to be drawn again into a conflict in the region. Now, I am telling to you, Serbia does not want any quarrels, conflicts and wars. Serbia insists on peace and cooperation in the region and throughout the world", Tomislav Nikolic, President of the Republic of Serbia, has said today at the memorial service for the Second World War victims in Jajinci.Those present were addressed by Milinko Cekic, a member of Jasenovac concentration camp prisoners, who drew attention to those present to the fate of around 10 000 people from Kozarac who were sent from Jasenovac to Staro Sajmiste concentration camp to set off from there for their final journey in different directions, and 5,000 of them back to Jasenovac. Cekic recalled the experience of the Jewish people who, after the horrors of the Holocaust failed to record the names of the greatest number of victims, as something which other suffering peoples should learn from out of nothing thus preserving the memory of what happened.
During the commemorative ceremony, those present laid wreaths and flowers at the monument to the victims.
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