Even if the world disappeared today and we all stopped speaking today the truth about Donja Gradina, the Jasenovac killing fields, will remain alive: one of the blackest pages of the universal history of ignominy was written on these fields.

Let the commemoration of all the innocent victims, thousands upon thousands of Serbs and our brothers-in-suffering the Jews and Roma, today on Little Easter, unite us in a deep understanding that only forgiveness will bring peace even though the Jasenovac silence will forever be ruled by the screams which no one has the right to forget.

But not all silence is forgetfulness. And not all memory is a threat. For the sake of all of us, let the best among us, in the centuries to come, help make this the last place where our nations will weep.

May they all rest in peace, they will not suffer again.