Commemorating the national day of remembrance of genocide victims of World War II, Serbian President Boris Tadic on April 22, 2010 said greater effort should be made to fight "ideologies that propagate evil and violence," the Serbianna website reports.
Tadic attended ceremonies at the memorial in Janjinci -- just outside Belgrade -- which marks the site where mass executions of Serbs, Jews, and Roma were carried out during Nazi occupation. The president warned of the possibility of renewal of such hateful ideologies in new forms.
"We are witnessing attempts of revision of World War II and endeavors to transform the ideology of fascism and Nazism into some new ideologies of evil and violence," Tadic stated.
According to the findings of a Yugoslav commission established after World War II, the number of dead at the Jasenovac concentration camp -- operated by the Nazi-backed Croatian state -- numbered 500,000 Serbs, 80,000 Roma, and 23,000 Jews. The Belgrade Museum of Genocide has compiled a list of 98,252 victims.
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