PM Macut honors thousands of Serb civilians executed by occupying German forces in Sumarice

The memorial in Kragujevac; Photo: Telegraf.rs

Outgoing Serbian PM Djuro Macut laid a wreath today in Sumarice, Kragujevac, on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of Serb victims of the Second World War, and paid his respects to the thousands of civilians who were executed by firing squads over three days in that town in October 1941.

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Together with Macut, members of his cabinet were present today, according to a Serbian government's statement.

The Day of Remembrance of Serbian Victims of the Second World War commemorates October 19, 20 and 21, 1941, when the German forces occupying Serbia executed about 3,000 innocent civilians in Kragujevac, among them 300 students and teachers from a local high school.

The mayor of Kragujevac, Nikola Dasic, representatives of the 1st Kragujevac High School, members of the diplomatic corps, the Association for the Cultivation of Serbia's Traditions of the Liberation Wars, and citizens today paid tribute to the victims of the Sumarice massacre.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)