Linta: Memorial center for Serb victims should be built

BELGRADE - Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other victims of fascism in the Second World War is an opportunity to acknowledge that too little has been done to protect the huge number of Serb victims from oblivion, President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta said.

"Because of such an attitude, we were not able to influence the international public to better understand the causes of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when the Serbs were once again the biggest victim," Linta said on Sunday, on the occasion of marking 70 years since the breakthrough of the Ustasa (Croatian fascist) concentration camp Jasenovac inmates.

He strongly advocated the idea on building a memorial center for the Serb victims of genocide in the 20th century inspired by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Coalition of Refugee Associations released.

As stated, the purpose of this center would be to collect the names of the victims, photographs and documents on the genocide, but also preserve the memory of the victims by organizing regular commemorative events, seminars and international conferences.

Photo Tanjug, Z. Zestic (archive)