Ana Brnabic, Jajinci (BETAPHOTO/SeRBIIAN GOVERNMENT/SLOBODAN MILJEVIC)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Oct. 4 that Serbia was facing significant political and security challenges, not only because of relations with Pristina and "very complex" relations in the region, she explained, but also because of the "indisputable" fact that the interests of "big and powerful" nations overlapped on its territory.
At a ceremony marking Remembrance Day in honor of the Serbs, Jews and Roma killed in World War II at the Jajinci memorial complex outside Belgrade, Brnabic said keeping Serbia free and independent was not guaranteed, but had to be fought for and won "in difficult circumstances."
"Countries like Serbia, which value freedom above all else, find that road harder and more challenging today than at any other time since the end of World War II," the prime minister said.
Stating that more than 80,000 "innocent Serbs, Jews, Roma, members of the National Liberation Movement, and antifascists" were killed at the Jajinci camp alone during World War II, the prime minister said Serbian citizens would never forget the historic truth "that as a people we were on the right side of history in both world wars and that we paid an enormous price for freedom."
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