13.09.2019.
President Vucic: We will not allow anyone to distort history and turn victims into executioners
Serbian President and Supreme Commander of the Serbian Armed Forces, Aleksandar Vučić, attended tonight’s “Krajino Moja” (“My Krajina”) Academy, which was organized in Drvar as part of the third Remembrance Day event, to commemorate all Serb victims of 20thCentury wars and which was this year dedicated to the suffering of Serbs in West Krajina municipalities in 1995.
The ceremony was also attended by Serbian Presidency Member Milorad Dodik, Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vulin, Minister of Finance Siniša Mali and Secretary General of the President of the Republic of Serbia, Nikola Selaković.Addressing the large number of citizens present on the plateau in front of the Workers’ Home in Drvar, President Vučić emphasized that in recent years everyone around us has been trying to diminish Serbian victims and to declare us the aggressors and culprits of everything that has happened.
- All of a sudden, we Serbs who liberated the territory of the former Yugoslavia have been rendered aggressors and fascists, and those who created Nazi states in this region have suddenly become liberators - said Vučić.
- We will not say a single bad word about anyone else. We respect the Croats, Bosniaks, we want to live with them peacefully, that is the future we stand for, but we will not allow anyone to distort history and turn victimsinto executioners, and blame the Serbian people for what we were never guilty of. We will protect our people - Vučićsaid.
He emphasized that “we have to remain where we have lived for centuries, to change behavior. We need to standunited. To guard one another, to be with one another, and to understand one another”.
Vučićadded that we must learn this lesson, that we must not keep silent about our weaknesses and guilt, in order to know how to behave differently and more responsibly.
- Tonight, with the memory of all fallen and killed for our country, we pay tribute to life itself. We are fighting for the lives of children, for 57 children from kindergarten “Mother Courage”, for those who are yet to come - said Vučić, adding that we should look at our mistakes, and then we will easily see what others have done to us.
He stated that the citizens will feel what has been done today and said that Drvar had already received a payment of one million euros. He also announced additional help from Serbia for the Church.
- We want a chapel and a big cross right on Petrovački Road, where the line of our people was bombed. Serbia will set aside money to mark the place of suffering - Vučićemphasized and promised that by the end of the year one company from Serbia would employ 100 people, because there is no survival without work. He added that € 75.000 had been paid to pay arrears for obligations to women who have just given birth and mothers of three or more children.It is important, Vučićsaid, to look to the future, to develop these areas. He told people from Drvar that he wanted to see them smiling, to look straight into the future and to see it the best possible way, for their children to grow up in harmony and peace and to proudly bear their first and last name.
He also said he was proud to be the first Serbian president to come to Drvar.
Serbian Presidency member Milorad Dodik emphasized that this is an important day for all Serbs in the area, not only historically and because of the events from the end of 95 that have long passed, but because today, on this day, the President of Serbia came to Drvar.
He emphasized the great help Republika Srpska receives from President Vučićand his team, for the Serb municipalities in Bosni and Hecegovina, but above than that money is the message conveyed by the arrival of the Serbian President in Drvar today.
- We did not come here to send you a message to stay here, because that is what you want, but to tell you that we are with you and that we will be with you in all future days - said Dodik.
At tonight’s ceremonial academy, the Mayor of Drvar municipality, Dušica Runić, said that a message was sent from “Krajino moja” ceremonial academy that Serbian victims and sufferingmust never be forgotten, but that generations to come should also be demonstrated that we are ready to create, build and go forwardin unity and harmony.
Bishop of Bihac and Petrovac, Sergije pointed out that President Vučićreminded the Krajina Serbs of the late King Petar MrkonjićKarađorđević, who during the Bosnian-Herzegovinian uprising left the comfort of the world metropolae and came to those areas to help them win freedom. Since then, fatherSergijesaid, no state leader of the Serbian lands has ever set foot in Drvar or that region, and President Vučić’s visit is an encouragement to the Serbs to stay in their centuriesold hearths.
During the day, President Vučić, with his son Danilo and Milorad Dodik, visited the birthplace of Gavril Princip in Grahovo.
President Vučić and Milorad Dodik also visited the kindergarten “Mother Courage” and met with the Mayors of the municipalities of Drvar, Grahovo, Glamoč and Bosanski Petrovac, members of the Bosnia and Hercegovina Parliamentary Assembly and delegates to the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and HercegovinaParliament.As part of the “Remembrance Day”, held under the auspices of the Government of Republika Srpska, this morning the Bishop of Bihac-Petrovac, Sergije served a parastos at St. Peter and Paul’s Temple in Bosanski Petrovac, and a parastos was also served at St. Sava’s Temple in Drvar. After the parastos, wreaths were laid on the “Guvno” Memorial, which is in the shape of a cross and has the symbolism of crossing of the paths of refugee Serbs coming from Dalmatian and Lika and Serbs from the area of Livno, Bosansko Grahovo and Drvar.
As part of “Remembrance Day”, an exhibition called “Opomen” (“Warning”) was opened in Drvar, addressing the suffering of Serbs from 1991 to 1995, when 120.000 Serbs were expelled from their centuries-old hearths.
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