Brnabic: Plans for D Gradina, Jajinci memorials must be completed as soon as possible

JERUSALEM - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday Serbia faced a great task of completing plans to build WWII memorial centres at Donja Gradina, Republika Srpska and Jajinci, near Belgrade.

Speaking to reporters after visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre in Jerusalem, Brnabic said she was full of impressions and that, together with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, she was even more determined for plans to build the Donja Gradina and Jajinci centres to be completed as soon as possible.

"This also inspires me that we get together, as early as next week, an entire team of people from Republika Srpska, the Government of Serbia, our historians as well as representatives of museums studying the genocide against the Serbs to conceive a way in which those memorial centres would not only be memorials but would also have an educational and research part to ensure that the WWII crimes of genocide against the Serbs, as well as against the much-suffering Jewish people and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia are never forgotten," Brnabic said.

Brnabic warned of the danger of occurrences of neo-ustashism, neo-fascism and neo-Nazism in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, which she noted all went uncondemned by the EU.

"The European Commission's reaction to the (Marko Perkovic) Thompson concert (in Zagreb, Croatia), the largest neo-fascist event in Europe in the past eighty years, attended by nearly half a million people who were chanting 'For Homeland Ready', is no condemnation but a platitude and an additional disgrace to the EC. We want a clear condemnation and a position in terms of values, on an event that took place just a hundred kilometres away from the most horrible place for the Serbs (the WWII-era Jasenovac death camp)," Brnabic noted.