Representatives of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy from the Republic of Srpska, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro visited the Memorial Zone Donja Gradina, Kozarska Dubica, where they laid wreaths and paid respects to all the victims of Jasenovac camp and its biggest execution site – Donja Gradina.

A deputy in the Montenegro National Assembly Mr Budimir Aleksic said that it is very important that all the Serbs, not only their representatives, come to the execution sites like this one and to know the history of the national sufferings. “We are the only nation in Europe who has survived three genocides in the 20th century: during the First World War, during the Second World War and during the last war in the nineties“, said Mr Aleksic.
Mr Aleksic, who is a member of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, emphasised that it is very important to preserve the culture of remembrance and to convey the truth about the sufferings.”The institutional culture of remembrance should be implemented by both our states, Serbia and the Republic of Srpska, because today there are denials of the number of the Jasenovac victims and denials of the project of genocide which was conducted. It is important that our political, cultural and scientific elites work on preserving the truth and telling it to the future generations”, said Mr Aleksic.

The member of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy from Croatia, Mr Dragan Crnogorac, thanked to the institutions of the Republic of Srpska for today’s reception. “We want to draw attention to the important issues for our Serbian nation at this key moment when in all the states at this region we are being satanised and presented as beasts, while actually we are the nation over which the crimes were committed, which proves this place here”, said Mr Crnogorac.

The member of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy from the Republic of Srpska, Mr Darko Banjac, said that the members of the Assembly, led by the member of the General Secretariat, Mr Strahinja Bulajic, laid the wreaths to the monument to the victims of the Jasenovac camp in Donja Gradina today and that they will, as a part of today’s activities, visit Kozarska Dubica and the Mostanica Monastery. “The idea which has been born at the most recent session of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy is to gather all the deputies from Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and the Republic of Srpska at one place and to make an agreement about our joint actions within the Assembly”, said Mr Banjac.

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