Novosti<\/a><\/p>\nPHOTO: HINA\/Zvonko KUCELIN\/ zk<\/p>\n
Those of you who have gathered here, all of us who gathered here today next to this old church of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin Mary, under these long-lived linden trees and next to the timeless Otu\u0107a River, we know that there was a time before us and that there will be a time after us, but we also know that our time and our place are the only instances of those that we will have and that is why we should live through them on the dignity of our finest ancestors and on the progress of our finest successors, as well as with the dignified memory of those whose lives were ended violently, for reasons of crime, as was the case with over a hundred Serbs during and after the \u201cOperation Storm\u201d in the territory of the Gra\u010dac municipality, and the memory of more than a hundred Serbs who went missing from the territory of this municipality, and who no one here would have remembered \u2013 just like the competent authorities did not remember and today do not remember their legal responsibility for determining the circumstances of their suffering in 1995 \u2013 if we, together with our friends from the Anti-fascist League (AFL) and Documenta \u2013 Centre for Dealing with the Past, did not remember them here \u2013 said the President of the Serb National Council (SNV) Milorad Pupovac at the commemoration held today in Deringaj, where participants gathered to remember the residents of these and other villages around Gra\u010dac who lost their lives, their loved ones, their homes, and their homeland during and after the \u201cOperation Storm,\u201d in the summer and autumn of 1995.<\/p>\n