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Prime Minister laid wreaths on All Saints Day
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Alenka Bratušek, attended All Saints' Day memorial ceremonies and laid wreaths at Frankolovo, Teharje and Žale. In her formal address at the monument to the Frankolovo victims, she stressed that the local residents paid a horrible price and witnessed many hellish deeds committed by the occupation forces. "Today, we can read about their feelings, indescribable fear experienced in the last moments of their lives and at the thought of the approaching death, which are described in their heartbreaking farewell letters addressed to their relatives," the Prime Minister underlined.
Prime Minister Bratušek also reminded that in the second half of September the Government adopted the Ordinance proclaiming memorial place Frankolovo for cultural monument of national importance. "The term 'national importance' might be misleading since this is a monument of a wider European as well as global importance. What happened here in those fateful hours is key to understanding what happened during WWII in Europe," she said adding that Graben in Stranice near Frankolovo is a place against which we, as humanity, raise our voice. Against exclusion and oppression, against violence, against the negation of human dignity, the slaughter, and last but not least against the historical ignorance."