Commemoration of the Remembrance Day - 17th March 2014 - Pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija

 

"There may be a time when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time not to rebel against injustice. These words of Elijah Wiesel, a former camp inmate, Nobel laureate, oblige us not to remain silent against crime, whoever committed it and irrespective of why it was committed", said President Vučić and added that we remembered and learned every lesson in which we were losers, every single one in which we stayed silent about our own victims, every single one in which we were ready to forget.

  

"Serbia today is no longer weak, nor a country of losers; it does not threaten, but also does not forget; it is willing to talk, but not to be humiliated. Serbia, just like everyone else, has the right to take care of its people, their security and well-being. The right to life is a basic human right and we will always defend it," said President Vučić.

 

 

President Vučić said that the pogrom surpasses all other crimes because it is not only an act but an intention, a policy, premeditation for a region, a country, to be forcibly cleansed of members of other nations and religions.

 

"We have no right to remain silent," said the President of Serbia, emphasising that we are obliged to be winners without blood and war, the best in the economy, healthcare, sports, education and everything else that development and progress are made of.

 

 

"We also want others to deal with themselves and be successful because we are aware that crime is a tool for losers, and winners do not need it; they remember, but they forgive and go on, while losers revolve in the same vicious circle. We, Serbs, we do not want to be that anymore - we want a future in which we will remember, but from which we do not want to return. We know what happened and we call it by its real name," concluded President Vučić.