Ћирилица The Zagreb’s “Večernji list” (“Evening News”) published a four part serial by Ivo Palčić about camps on the Island of Pag, on Wednesdays from 14th May 1975 to 4th June 1975. The serial was a result of talks with Ante Zemljar whose book “Charon and Destinies” contains information which helped find these serial parts. A large contribution of Zemljar’s work in finding the truth about horrible place of genocide over Serbs and Jews is revealed in the serial parts presented here. 34 years ago, on the Island of Pag there was a scaffold called “Slana” where 10,000 to 15,000 innocent people met their death. There are stones and nothing but the stones there now – a landscape of sharp

Ћирилица There was a football match between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade. The match was considered risky. But all was just peaceful, even though the Albanians have, with the help of NATO and USA, illegally stole Kosovo and Metohija, and cause troubles in other parts of Serbia as well. But the Serbs were tollerant. A general opinion was “Sport is to be played and enjoyed, so let the better one win.” During the match, the Albanians have launced a drone carrying a flag. The atmosphere exploded, and the fight started on the terrain. That’s how the mainstream media reports about the incident, and the world swallows it thinking: ” Oh,

Ћирилица History is a teacher of life, says the old proverb. Hence, it should be regarded as a part of life and future, not only a part of the past.  We recall that the drive for redrawing the borders was one of the key objectives of aggressors in the First World War. The revision of history and results of the First and Second World Wars could prove to be but a front for the revision of borders The Great War began following the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum, one that everyone clearly knew that Serbia could not have possibly accepted. At the end of that same, 20th century, Serbia (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) was given a similar ultimatum by

English | Ћирилица – Епископ Бихача и Петровца, Афанасий, заявил сегодня на Козарe что сербскому народу лехко случаються забвение, отторжение, ампутация и отмена части своего существа, своей жизни, своего народа. “ И биология и теология запечатлели инстинкт осмысления во всем существам. Человек иногда путается смотря на сербский народ, подозревая, что такой инстинкт дается каждому народу“ – сказал Епископ Афанасий на открытию Первого собрания ассоциаций потомков сербских жертв войн 20-го века. Он подчеркнул, что сербский народ щедрый и хочет все разделить с другими, и это, по его словам, не плохо, но не сохронить ничего для себя и отдать все, это  конечно плохо, потому что нужно иметь для себя и для других. „Это что случилось сербскому народу в 20-ом веке, много из этого прошло

Ћирилица | Русский – Bishop of Bihać and Petrovac Atanasije said today on Mount Kozara that the Serbian people easily forget, reject, amputate and annul even a part of their own being, their life and their people. “Both the biology and theology have imprinted the drive to think before doing to all creatures. One can sometimes get confused watching the Serbian people, doubting that drive has been given to each people”, said Bishop Atanasije at the opening of the First Gathering of Associations of Descendants and Supporters of Serbian War Victims in the 20th century. He said that the Serbian people are open-handed and want to share everything with others, which is not a bad thing, as he said,

Ћирилица A commemoration was held at the site Crna Stijena near the Foca Hospital on Tuesday to honour 19 Serbs from the Celebic area who were executed by the Austro-Hungarian occupying forces in 1914 today. On the eve of and at the beginning of the First World War, Austro-Hungarians killed around 200 Serbs in the Foca District, while many ended up in the camps in Arad and Doboj. Arrested and murdered were renowned residents of Foca, mostly the villagers from the Celebic area, at the border with the then Kingdom of Montenegro. Only four days after the killing at Crna Stijena, another 52 residents of Celebic were executed on the

Ћирилица The first inmates of Jasenovac were the surviving prisoners of the complex of NDH death camps Gospić-Jadovno-Pag.  73 years ago, on 23 August, 1941, the Croatian People newspaper published the following: „..in the last couple of days, shacks at the Lonjsko Polje, which will house workers, soon to start with their work, have been completed.“ Amongst the first camp inmates of Jasenovac were prisoners from the Croatian island of Pag, which was a part of Jadovno complex of camps. Zlatko Vajler, a surviving camp inmate from Slana on the island of Pag, describes the road from Slana to Jasenovac camp: “Our camps were closed down in late August when

Ћирилица  Seventy-seven years ago today, Ustashas committed mass executions of the remaining inmates in the camps Slana on the island of Pag and Jadovno on Mt Velebit.Head of the Association Jadovno 1941 Dusan Bastasic recalls that the at least 791 people were killed in Pag and 1,500 in Velebit. “Appalled by the monstrosity of the crimes and the number of killed inmates, Italian occupation forces took over from the NDH (Independent State of Croatia) the civil and military power and ordered the closing of death camps,” Bastasic recounts for Srna. Another reason for Italians’ concern was the massive uprising of Serbs in Lika against the Ustasha tyranny. “In an effort

Ћирилица BELGRADE, August 14 /SRNA/ – The director of the Veritas Documentation Centre, Savo Strbac, told SRNA that it is inappropriate for children – athletes from Serbia – to holiday in the former Lora death camp in Split, where 1008 Serbs were tortured and 70 were killed in the most heinous ways from 1992 to 1998. Strbac called hypocritical the explanation of the organiser of the Youth Sports Games in Split, Zdravko Maric, that “the past belongs to the past,” that “one should turn to the future” and that it is bad that children will now, because of their parents’ “pointless” sensibilities, be transferred to the hotel in Zagreb. He

Ћирилица With the Blessing of his Eminence, Bishop Gerasim of Gornjokarlovacka diocese, the Jadovno 1941 Remembrance Days in 2014 will be marked from June 20th to 22nd Bearing the Holy Cross along the Jadovno martyrs’ path on June 24, 2012 The Prayer Gathering on the occasion of Remembrance Day of Jadovno 1941 begins on Friday, June 20th in the afternoon, with gathering in front of the Church of the Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple, in Plasko. In the evening of the same day there will be held a promotion of the book „Јадовничка голгота свештенослужитеља Српске Православне Цркве 1941.године“ written by the priest Dragan

Ћирилица Find the strength and responsibility to answer this question: WHY HAVE YOU DONE THAT TO US? The Croatian political leadership marked the European Day of Remembrance of the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, in their Croatian way. It was Jazovka first and then Jadovno. Serbs were insulted and the diplomatic representatives and the international public deluded. With great explanations of how it has civilization and historical value (of which Europe reminded them), they said that after seventy years they came to the pit Jazovka on Žumberak into which the Partisans, upon their arrival in Zagreb in 1945, threw the wounded Croatian Home Guard soldiers and Ustashas, after

Српски On 1st August 2013, the Third Round Table “Šušnjar 1941” was held in Oštra Luka, with around 45 historians, civil servants and scientists, veterans of the NOR [Narodno-oslobodilački rat, People’s Liberation War], surviving victims, writers, journalists and others. It was organised by the Municipality of Oštra Luka and the Organising Committee consisting of Prof. Vladimir Lukić, PhD, Petar Dodik, Mihajlo Orlović, Ranko Pavlović and Vukašin Davidović. More than 35 testimonies and witness accounts were given on the horrifying slaughter that took place on Saint Elijah’s Day (2nd August) in 1941.At the very beginning, the poet Boro Kapetanović recited verses from his touching poem about Šušnjar, followed by one minute’s silence

Ћирилица Another 22 April has passed, the day when we were supposed to remember the breakout of the Jasenovac inmates. The Balkan Auschwitz, the largest systematically raised devourer of the Serbian and Jewish people, each year asks us a series of questions. Those questions, complicated and never fully answered, go deep into the foundations of our collective identity, our relation towards the past, but also the relation of parents and grandparents towards their offspring. Our public awareness deeply formalized and scandalised to the point of tabloid perception, „wastes” such dates once a year, as a formality usually followed by standard journalist and politician’s phrases on the repetition of the history, our commitments, the

Ћирилица  Remembering is not enough, research is necessary, education is imperative REMEMBERING There is individual, personal remembering, primarily by those who had survived the tortures, atrocities, and concentration camps. Regretfully, very soon, not a single concentration camp survivor will remain among us. When such time comes, what remains for us will be retold and transferred memories, which can not be reliable for history. Memories, which by their very nature are subjective, over time become increasingly modified and changed. There is the so-called public memory, or remembering practiced on designated international remembrance days, when states (through statements made by authorities), once a year remember the innocent victims and terrible atrocities. Public

Српски The Serbian Diaspora must realize the magnitude of the genocide over the Serbian people in the Ustasha’s Independent State of Croatia (NDH), said tonight in Oslo the President of the Association „Jadovno 1941”, Dušan Bastašić.  „We must not forget the crimes in the Ustasha complex of death camps Gospić—Jadovno – Pag, the first liquidation centre in the NDH. We must raise awareness on it in all segments of the Serbian society, including the Diaspora. We hope to have more institutional support in this“, said Bastašić at the opening of the exhibition “My Jadovno” in the capital of Norway. After the exhibition was opened, Bastašić and Association “Jadovno 1941” Secretary Predrag Lozo held a lecture on the genocide over