The President of the Municipality of Pljevlja, Dario Vraneš, and the New Serbian Democracy (NSD) MP Velimir Đoković attended today, on behalf of the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, the marking of the 80th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Jasenovac concentration camp.
A statement from the Office of the President of the Municipality of Pljevlja states that Vranes and Djokovic attended the 80th anniversary celebration as official representatives of the Serbian people from Montenegro.
"In Donja Gradina near Kozarska Dubica, the Governments of the Republika Srpska and the Republic of Serbia marked the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide in Jasenovac, organized by the Governments of the Republic of Srpska and the Republic of Serbia. The Jasenovac camp system included several camps in which around 700.000 Serbs, Jews and Roma were executed in the most monstrous way by the Croatian Ustashas, of which over 20.000 were children. Within Jasenovac, there was a unique camp in the world - a camp for children. At the central ceremony after the memorial service led by Bishop Jefrem of Banja Luka, Roma and Jewish prayers were held. After the addresses of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, Isak Asijel, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Serbia, Gref Gideon, an expert in Holocaust research, and a representative of the Roma community in Serbia, Dr. Dragoljub Acković, also addressed the audience of several thousand visitors," reads a statement from the Office of the Mayor of the Municipality of Pljevlja, Dario Vraneš.
As it is added, the gathering was attended by the entire state, political and military leadership of Serbia, Republika Srpska, representatives of the Serbian people from Macedonia and Montenegro, numerous ambassadors, representatives of veterans' associations and a large crowd of citizens.
"Vučić and Dodik announced that Serbia and Republika Srpska will build memorial centers in Donja Gradiška and Belgrade, which in the future every diplomat will have to visit before meeting with our statesmen in order to see for themselves the suffering and the way in which the Serbian people suffered in the past century. Last year, on June 28, the Parliament of Montenegro voted on a Resolution on genocide in the Jasenovac camp system and the Dachau camp system in Mauthausen. On April 23 of this year, the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, organized a ceremonial academy in the villa 'Gorica' to commemorate the victims of the Jasenovac, Dachau and Mauthausen camps. With this, Montenegro officially paid tribute to the innocent victims of Jasenovac for the first time," reads the statement from the Vraneš Cabinet.
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