As if Serbs were not exterminated in WWII. By reading the article and Tadic's
statement, one cannot see who "transported these Jews and Romas (and SERBS some
700.000) to execution". Could it be that executioners were Nazi Croats /
Germans! They certainly were! Yet it is nowhere to be found in Tadic's
statement!!! For this mishap alone Tadic does not deserve to be Serbia's
president! Boba
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..."..President Boris Tadiæ took part in the ceremonies at the memorial park,
which marks the location that saw around 5,000 of Serbia's Jews and Romas
transported to execution..."
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Serbia marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January 2008
Today, Serbia, along with the rest of the world, remembers the victims of the
Second World War Holocaust.
The central commemoration was held today at the site of the former Nazi camp of
Topovske ©upe in Belgrade.
President Boris Tadiæ took part in the ceremonies at the memorial park, which
marks the location that saw around 5,000 of Serbia's Jews and Romas transported
to execution.
"We will never accept the destruction of others simply because they are
different, because they belong to another ethnic, religious or political group.
We condemn intolerance, we do not accept prejudice and hatred which aims to
justify and deepen these differences, to separate us," Tadiæ said.
Describing the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of some six million
European Jews, as the biggest concentration of evil and martyrdom, the
president said the Jewish and other communities in Serbia must always feel
equal to the majority population.
"We reject any denial of the Holocaust. Count on us, your fellow citizens and
neighbors to remember, to know that this memory serves to recognize a future
with a better and more humane world," Tadiæ said during the ceremonies.
Speaking at the same gathering, the chairman of the Serbian Jewish Community,
Aleksandar Neæak, pointed out that the Jewish people will never again allow the
Second World War suffering to repeat itself.
"Serbia too paid a huge price in the Second World War. Therefore, neo-Nazism
and anti-Semitism do not suit a democratic Serbia. I am calling on Serbians to
prevent the strengthening of racism and anti-Semitism," Neæak said.
Israel's ambassador to Serbia, Arthur Koll, whose mother is a Holocaust
survivor from the Auschwitz death camp, described the results that the Nazi
persecution had on his nation as a scar on the face of mankind, that ought to
serve to remind how low that mankind can stoop, and how dangerous racism and
hatred can be.
"I believe that we are here because we believe in a better world, and because
we are aware of the dangers that anti-Semitism and racism bring with them,"
Koll said.
The commemoration was also attended by UN's representative to Serbia, Lance
Clark, who urged parents to bring up their children in a way that will create a
sense of responsibility, and enable them to, as adults, build societies that
respect human rights.
In 2005,the United Nations decided to declare January 27, the day when
Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Red Army, the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Nazi German state killed 1.5 million people in the notorious death camp.
Over one million of the victims were Jewish.
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