Milos Vucevic (BetaPhoto/The Government of the Republic of Serbia/Slobodan Maljevic)
Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said on Oct. 6 that "peace and holy freedom" had to be defended by "any means, as they are the only guarantor that the horrors of victimization will not happen again, though some would like to paint the Serbian people as an executioner, even though it is clear that they were the victim."
"This is a place of grief, of pain. We must talk about the victimization because no one else will. Today many would like this not to be discussed, for our sacrifices to not be worth mentioning. They want to persuade us that they never even happened. The narrative that we are an executioner nation is being imposed, when we are in fact the victim nation," Vucevic said at a ceremony marking Remembrance Day of the Suffering of Serbs, Roma and Jews at the Jajinci execution grounds.
He said the German occupation forces in World War II had designated the Jajinci area as an execution grounds where more than 80,000 people lost their lives, according to estimates.
"Serbs, Jews, Roma were brought to this place en masse and killed... Here they met their heroic deaths, their sacrifice now built into a freedom-loving, unconquered Serbia," Vucevic said.
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