The commemoration in Donja Gradina, on the Bosnian side of the Sava river, one of the sites where the Jasenovac inmates were killed, was attended by RS President Milorad Dodik, nearly all important entity officials, Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, and Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov.
Dodik delivered a speech saying that those most responsible for the crimes at Jasenovac had never been called to account because the regime in the former Yugoslavia "minimised the victims and was thus an accomplice to the crime."
"The Serb people is a people of peace who was naive in World War Two, allowing itself to be slaughtered in the naive belief that a crime of such an extent can't happen," said Dodik.
Misezhenikov said anti-Semitism, totalitarianism, violence and terror had not disappeared and again represented a sword over the head of the free world.
The lesson of WW2 is that pacifist concessions and weakness in relation to such manifestations lead to genocide, he said.