RISTANOVIĆ: WE MUST NOT KEEP SILENT ABOUT CRIMES AGAINST SERBIAN PEOPLE

BANJA LUKA, JUNE 29 /SRNA/ - It is important to preserve the memory of crimes against Serbs, their suffering, and the sites where they were killed, we must not remain silent about this, academic Elizabeta Ristanović told SRNA.

"This must be part of our academic programs, including Jasenovac, as part of the ongoing hybrid war waged against Serbs in various ways, including through the school and academic systems and textbooks," said Ristanović, who visited Donja Gradina, the largest execution site of the Jasenovac concentration camp system, together with Russian academic Igor Panarin. She stated that in certain periods, the number of victims was downplayed, and that such intentions still exist today. She emphasized that the Serbs, as a people, must not allow this so that it does not happen again. "History is the teacher of life, and its lessons must be learned the right way," she said. Ristanović stated that academic Panarin was deeply shaken by what he saw and heard about the atrocities committed against Serbs in the territory of the former NDH, the continuity and persistence of those crimes, and the hostile intentions of the Serbs’ age-old enemies up to the present day. She emphasized that Panarin, who last night gave a lecture titled "Hybrid War Against the Serbian People" at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska and promoted his book "Yalta Two and the Collapse of the Parasite Empire," is an expert in hybrid and counter-hybrid warfare, a man who seeks the historical roots of all processes targeting the Slavs, and therefore, the Serbian people as well. Ristanović concluded that the Serbian people have been targeted by hybrid warfare for decades, even centuries.