DODIK: WE WILL BUILD MONASTERY COMPLEX AND MONUMENT IN PREBILOVCI

PREBILOVCI, AUGUST 5 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik announced that a monastery complex and monument, which will have national significance, will be built at the Serb execution site in Prebilovci, and pointed out that this place near Čapljina is proof of the hatred and intentions of the Ustashas and that the 1990s only confirmed that this hatred is not abating.

"We will try to do that with Serbia, that Serbia treats this place in the same way," said Dodik.

Dodik said in Prebilovci, where he attends the festive evening service on the eve of the feast of the Holy Martyrs of Prebilovac and Other Herzegovinian Martyrs, that this place and the events from the past will not be forgotten as long as there is any Serbian trace.

"It is important that we are here today and that our people come each year," Dodik told the press.

In Prebilovci, the remains of more than 4,000 Serbs from Herzegovina who were killed in World War II and thrown into 13 pits were buried. In that Herzegovinian village alone, 830 Serbs were killed, mostly women and children, while no one from 57 families survived the pogrom.

The Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Prebilovci was built and consecrated in 2015 in memory of the approximately 4,000 Serbs from Lower Herzegovina who were killed by the Ustashas in World War II, and who were canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church the same year.

The church in Prebilovci was built with the help of the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and also thanks to donations from Serbs in the diaspora.

It was modeled after the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, which is a symbol of resurrection and life.