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Itar-Tass April 18, 2005 Serbs, Jews, gypsies [Roma] mark jubilee of liberation of Jasenovac camp BELGRADE - Thousands of people gathered in the town of Donja Gradina in the Serb Republic of Bosnia Sunday to mark the 60th anniversary since liberation of the Jasenovac Nazi concentration camp, where more than 700,000 Serbs, Jews, gypsies, and antifascists died during World War II. A most atrocious form of genocide was committed at Jasenovac, as hundreds of thousands of innocent elderly, women and children died there just because they belonged to a different creed or different ethnic groups, said the President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Dragan Cavic. He urged the attending people to continue punishing the butchers by gathering here every year and reminding them about their victims. Such butchers can appear in other places, at other periods of time, and speak other languages, Cavic said. He called on the Balkan nations to break the vicious circle, which turns todays victims into tomorrows hangmen and transforms todays hatred into tomorrows revenge. All of us need exceptional responsibility so that our region wouldnt be regarded as a place of crimes anymore, said Boris Tadic, the president of Serbia. His mother, Nevenka Tadic came to Donja Gradina, too. Her own father was killed in a concentration camp on Bosnian territory during World War II. Donja Gradina has nine fields of communal graves of the victims, and the remembrance function held there Sunday under the motto of Let Us Remember brought together diplomats from the Russian, German, Slovene and other embassies in Bosnia, as well as representatives of the World Jewish Congress and the World Gypsy Congress. Serb Orthodox, Jewish and gypsy clergy served remembrance services for the victims of wartime genocide. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
