Bosnia: Streets named after "prominent Ustasha"
Some streets in the Bosnian town of Mostar are named after "prominent" members of the WW2 Croatian puppet Nazi regime.
Sunday, 25.01.2009.
14:04
Some streets in the Bosnian town of Mostar are named after "prominent" members of the WW2 Croatian puppet Nazi regime. They include such figures as war criminals Jure Francetic, Mile Budak, Ante Vokic and Mladen Lorkovic, Deutche Welle reports, according to Tanjug news agency. Bosnia: Streets named after "prominent Ustasha" Mostar has for years cherished the idea of anti-fascism, says the German media outlet, "and could not imaging that one day its streets would be named after fascists". Although there were initiatives to rectify this, there have been no results so far. Thus, one of the streets is still "graced" with a sign bearing the name of the so-called Black Legion commander Francetic, who was appointed by Ante Pavelic to be the Ustasha regional governor in Bosnia. Pavelic himself was at the helm of the so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a puppet Nazi creation that existed during the Second World War. The Ustasha had an armed wing, responsible for numerous war crimes, including those in death camps such as Jasenovac. "It is shameful that to this day the authorities in Mostar have done nothing to rename the streets that have fascist names. I believe there should be no conditioning for the names of these streets, they should just be removed," Zijad Music, an MP in Bosnia's parliament, was quoted as saying. The City Council is in charge of naming the streets. However, more than three months after the elections, Mostar still has neither the mayor, nor the elected head of the City Council. Considering that most important decisions in the town are made through agreement of Muslims and Croats who live there, and who "often call on vital national interests", the Deutsche Welle report says, "there is fear that some persons holding offices will find it hard to give up the current street names". Several NGOs in Bosnia also called for the streets to be renamed, and asked the authorities to pass a law to ban fascist organizations, and even parties whose manifestos "contain such opinions".
Bosnia: Streets named after "prominent Ustasha"
Mostar has for years cherished the idea of anti-fascism, says the German media outlet, "and could not imaging that one day its streets would be named after fascists".Although there were initiatives to rectify this, there have been no results so far.
Thus, one of the streets is still "graced" with a sign bearing the name of the so-called Black Legion commander Francetić, who was appointed by Ante Pavelić to be the Ustasha regional governor in Bosnia.
Pavelić himself was at the helm of the so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a puppet Nazi creation that existed during the Second World War. The Ustasha had an armed wing, responsible for numerous war crimes, including those in death camps such as Jasenovac.
"It is shameful that to this day the authorities in Mostar have done nothing to rename the streets that have fascist names. I believe there should be no conditioning for the names of these streets, they should just be removed," Zijad Mušić, an MP in Bosnia's parliament, was quoted as saying.
The City Council is in charge of naming the streets. However, more than three months after the elections, Mostar still has neither the mayor, nor the elected head of the City Council.
Considering that most important decisions in the town are made through agreement of Muslims and Croats who live there, and who "often call on vital national interests", the Deutsche Welle report says, "there is fear that some persons holding offices will find it hard to give up the current street names".
Several NGOs in Bosnia also called for the streets to be renamed, and asked the authorities to pass a law to ban fascist organizations, and even parties whose manifestos "contain such opinions".
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