Officials of the Democratic People's Party (DNP), Free Montenegro and Prava Montenegro laid flowers on the Topola burial ground in the Donja Gradin Memorial Area.
DNP: The past is the best teacher of the present, and a lesson for the future
DNP MPs Milun Zogović and Vladislav Bojović attended the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of Genocide Victims in Jasenovac - Donja Gradina, at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik.
"The Jasenovac concentration camp system represents one of the biggest crimes in the Second World War, and from 1941 to 1945, hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly Serbs, Jews and Roma, were killed there. The past is the best teacher of the present, and a lesson for the future. Today, when We are celebrating the Day of Remembrance for the victims of Jasenovac in Donja Gradina, we feel a deep human need to place candles and flowers for all the victims of this terrible crime for the sake of all those who died," the DNP announced.
They add that they are sure that not enough has been done to preserve the memory of the innocent victims of Serbs, Roma and Jews.
"Our most sacred duty is to leave to future generations the knowledge of the horrors that our ancestors survived, and by adopting the resolution on the genocide in Jasenovac, we condemn all those who brutally took the lives of innocent people. It is very important to remind Srebrenica of the genocide committed against the Serbian people," the statement concluded.
Dajković: The suffering in Jasenova cannot be compared to the crime in Srebrenica
The suffering in Jasenova absolutely, in no way, can be compared to the crime in Srebrenica and it is not even necessary to justify it, because it would offend the mothers, children and civilians of Jasenova, announced the president of Free Montenegro, Vladislav Dajković.
Slobodna Crne Gora announced that Dajković "attended the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in the Jasenovac - Donja Gradina concentration camp at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik".
"With due respect, I responded to Mr. Dodik's invitation to attend the event in which we remember all the victims of the camp in Jasenovac," said Dajković.
He added that the presence of representatives of the Serbian people from Montenegro in Donja Gradina this year has special weight and significance, bearing in mind the official announcement of Montenegro that it will support the Resolution on Srebrenica.
"In this regard, I was sincerely glad that official Montenegro took part in this event, bearing in mind that the President of the Parliament of Montenegro Andrija Mandić was also present," said Dajković.
Last night, the Government of Montenegro adopted amendments to the proposed United Nations (UN) resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica ("International Day of Remembrance and Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica 1995") last night.
The Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milojko Spajić, said three days ago in the Parliament of Montenegro that Montenegro will vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) for the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica.
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Milačić: Today I am at the site of the largest execution site of our Serbian people
Prava Montenegro also announced that the president of that party, Marko Milačić, at the invitation of Dodik, "attended the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Ustasha genocide in the Jasenovac concentration camp and its largest execution site, Donja Gradina, which was held today in the Donja Gradina Memorial Area".
"Today, at the site of the largest execution site of our Serbian people, in the name of the unspeakable suffering of the Serbian, Jewish and Roma people in Jasenovac, I paid tribute to the innocent victims of the monstrous genocide with sadness and pain," Milačić pointed out.
He added that "this Ustasha death camp in which our children were starved, slaughtered, poisoned, burned and bayoneted in the most monstrous manner, modeled after the German camps, we neither want nor can forget."
"They tore our flowers, broke our branches, toppled our trees, but the root remained alive and strong, so we must remain steadfast and continue to grow and flourish despite the difficult times in which they try to break us again and again, only in a modern way. We have a duty to preserve the memory of the suffering of our Serbian people and to never forget their suffering and the Golgotha they went through in this death camp, as well as to fight forever against all forms of hatred and intolerance to ensure that such horrors never happen again to anyone. ", Milacic said.
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