On 26th April, Chinese ambassador to Croatia Deng Ying attended the memorial ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the break-out of inmates from Jasenovac camp. Ambassador Deng laid wreath to the monument “Stone Flower”.
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, Speaker of Croatian Parliament Josip Leko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić, Minister of Justice Orsat Miljenić, Minister of Agriculture Tihomir Jakovina, Minister of Culture Berislav Šipuš, Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandić, representatives of diplomatic corps, Croatian Anti-Fascist League, religious circle and former inmates survivors from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Slovenia, were among close to one thousand people who have attended the Commemoration.
Jasenovac camp is often referred to as “Croatia’s Auschwitz”, built by the Fascist Ustasha regime in 1941 during the Second World War, where it is estimates around 80.000 Croatians, Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and other lost their lives.