Bosnian Serb leadership and senior officials of Serbia laid wreaths on Sunday in honour of the victims of the Ustasha crimes committed in the WWII Jasenovac concentration camp and its largest execution site in Donja Gradina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the place where thousands of the old, helpless women and children were killed in most cruel ways.
Bishop Jefrem of Banja Luka and priests of the Serbian Orthodox Church will hold a religious ceremony to commemorate the Serb victims, which will be followed by reading of prayers for the Roma and the Jews.
The ceremony is attended by President of Bosnia's Serb-majority entity Republika Srpska, Zeljka Cvijanovic, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency Milorad Dodik, Republika Srpska Prime Minister Radovan Viskovic, Chairman of Bosnia's Council of Ministers Zoran Tegeltija, as well as the ministers in Republika Srpska government and Government of Serbia.
“Anytime I come here, to this town of the dead, I am trying to find the reasons behind this evil, I am trying to understand why would someone do something like this and I never succeed,” said Vucic addressing the ceremony.
Cvijanovic noted that this was the place where she finds it hardest to speak and that nothing in near or further history of the Serbs or the mankind in general can compare to what happened there, “in the dark period of the NDH (abbreviation for the Independent State of Croatia, a WWII-era puppet state of Nazi Germany)”.
“This is the place of the pain and silence, where instead of words one could hear screams of innocent victims, hopeless cries of women, the crying and sobs of innocent children. No one could count on compassion or sympathy,” she said.
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