Vucevic: Genocide against Serbs committed in Jasenovac, we will not allow revision of history

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party leader Milos Vucevic, who is also adviser to the president of Serbia on regional affairs, said on Thursday the most monstrous genocide against Serbs, Jews and Roma had been committed in Jasenovac - a WWII death camp in the then Independent State of Croatia - and that Serbia would never allow a revision of history.

"It seems that someone is finding it hard to look into the eyes of the truth?! It seems that someone is 'insulted' by the truth about the deaths of innocent souls, about the killing of Serb children?! They should know that they will never succeed in getting around the truth, whichever shortcuts they take to 'run away,'" Vucevic posted on X in a reaction to the news that a delegation of European Parliament members that is to visit Serbia had requested not to enter the lobby of the National Assembly building in Belgrade, currently the venue of an exhibition commemorating the Jasenovac genocide victims.

Vucevic noted that Jasenovac was not a made-up narrative, but a death camp that had been the site of the most monstrous genocide against Serbs, Jews and Roma.

"During WWII, in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia, in Jasenovac, Gradiska and Jadovno, more than one million Serbs were killed. Serbia hates no one, but it is not forgetting the crimes against its people," Vucevic added.

Earlier in the day, Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said the legislature had received official correspondence with a request that the delegation of MEPs do not pass through the central lobby of the parliament building during the visit due to, as the correspondence stated, some MEPs and their sentiments.