Vucic lays wreath to honour victims in Jasenovac

DONJA GRADINA - The ceremony to mark April 22 as the Memory day in honour of genocide victims in the Jasenovac concentration camp began by wreath-laying at the memorial place in the Donja Gradina Memorial Centre in Republika Srpska (RS).

Wreaths at the biggest Jasenovac execution site were laid by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian president's advisor Oliver Antic, RS President Milorad Dodik and RS Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic.

In honour of the killed Roma, Jews and Serbs, wreaths were laid by the delegations of surviving camp inmates, veteran associations, Israel and the diplomatic corps.

The Memory day in honour of the Jasenovac victims is being observed to mark the liberation of the Ustashi concentration camp Jasenovac as one of the biggest and most atrocious camps of the kind in the occupied Europe, sometimes referred to by historians as the Serbian Auschwitz.

Donja Gradina is the biggest execution site in the system of 80 prison camps within the Jasenovac complex, where 500,000 Serbs were killed, as well as 80,000 Roma, 32,000 Jews and several dozen thousand anti-fascists of various nationalities.