Bosnian, Serbian and international officials laid wreaths in memory of the victims of Jasenovac concentration camp on Sunday, in the area of Donja Gradina near Kozarska Dubica, Northern Bosnia.

We keep coming back to the question: Why did this happen? How is it possible to sentence someone to death the moment they were born. Just because they were born into a particular nation and religion. How can we count the victims that were burned or thrown into the Sava river?,” Bosnia’s Presidency Chairman, Milorad Dodik, said, adding he cannot find it in his heart to forgive those who killed his people.

He argued that Serbs do not want a conflict with anyone, they want to live in peace and to freely say that the monstrous creation which was the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was neither free nor Croatian, considering the number of Croats it killed.

“Our presence here is our obligation, our pledge for the future and the reason why we’ll know how to appreciate our love for the homeland. We’ll never forget the unthinkably difficult times our people went through and in survived despite all the tragedies,” Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said.

She added that the people in Jasenovac were killed “mercilessly and cruelly.”

“They were killed mercilessly and cruelly without the slightest hint of humanity from their murderers. Various people and systems tried to cover up the facts of the scale and cruelty of the Jasenovac system, for decades,” She noted.

The Prime Ministers of Serbia Ana Brnabic, Bosnia’s Presidency Chairman Milorad Dodik, the President of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity Zeljka Cvijanovic, the Speaker of RS National Assembly and delegations of the RS Government, the State Parliament and foreign diplomats, the ambassadors of Russia Peter Ivantsov, the United States Eric Nelson, Great Britain Matthew Field and Head of EU Delegation to Bosnia Lars-Gunnar Wigemark laid wreaths at the memorial.

The marking of the Memorial Day on the victims of Ustasha crimes in the concentration camp Jasenovac and its biggest hub of Donja Gradina, in Donja Gradina, was organized by the governments of the RS and Serbia.

Jasenovac concentration camp was an extermination camp established in Slavonia, Croatia, by the NDH authorities during World War II.

The camp was established and operated solely by the governing Ustasha regime instead of Nazi Germany. It was one of the largest concentration camps in Europe, and it has been referred to as “the Auschwitz of the Balkans” and “the Yugoslav Auschwitz”.