Death Camps Are Great Sites For Rock Concerts (UPDATED)

Especially in Serbia:

Soon, the site where some 48,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies perished in the 1940s will be throbbing to the rhythms of rock music.

For Serbia's small Jewish community, the weekend concert at the Sajmiste camp near the center of Belgrade is the latest indignity to befall a site they say needs to be saved from decades of neglect and deterioration.

"It's like holding a wedding at a graveyard," said Aleksandar Mosic, a Jewish chairman of the camp's memorial center, ahead of the concert by British band Kosheen.

Nearly all of Belgrade's 8,000 Jews were killed at Sajmiste soon after it was set up in 1941 at the site of the Belgrade Fair exhibition ground, Mosic said. Thousands of leftists and Serb nationalists also were killed at the camp. Stray dogs wander forlornly around the rundown gray brick barracks that used to house of one of the most notorious World War II Nazi death camps in the Balkans.

But there's nothing personal about this--it's just business:

Poseydon, the company that bought the hall, says the concerts simply make business sense.

Of course it does--just like the original decision to sell the building to a private entrepreneur.

UPDATE: Kosheen has canceled the concert--look in the comments.

[Hat tip: Hot Air Headlines]

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