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Remembrance of victims of fascism
Belgrade,
22 April 2016
Minister of Justice Nikola Selakovic said today at the marking of the Remembrance Day for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other victims of fascism that it is our obligation to oppose aspirations to a revision of history and a twisting of facts by spreading the truth.
Author:
Tanjug
At the memorial to WWII genocide victims at Belgrade's Old Fairgrounds, he said that remembrance of the victims and gatherings such as this are a guarantee that genocide will not happen again.
Selakovic said that the Roma, Jews and Serbs revisit the lessons of history in places like this one, but are also warned that they must become even closer to each other.
Serbian and Jewish people are joined by the history of living together, they also by the fate of the Roma people, the Minister reminded pointing to the friendship as a common period of starvation and struggle for freedom.
According to estimates given by a Yugoslav state commission following the first exhumations – and subsequently confirmed by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – 500,000 Serbs, 80,000 Roma, 32,000 Jews and tens of thousands of anti-fascists of various ethnicities went missing in the Jasenovac camps.
Selakovic said that the Roma, Jews and Serbs revisit the lessons of history in places like this one, but are also warned that they must become even closer to each other.
Serbian and Jewish people are joined by the history of living together, they also by the fate of the Roma people, the Minister reminded pointing to the friendship as a common period of starvation and struggle for freedom.
According to estimates given by a Yugoslav state commission following the first exhumations – and subsequently confirmed by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – 500,000 Serbs, 80,000 Roma, 32,000 Jews and tens of thousands of anti-fascists of various ethnicities went missing in the Jasenovac camps.
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