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The Simon Wiesenthal Center has condemned plans by extreme right-wing organizations in Croatia to erect a monument to ustasha leader Ante Pavelić.
In a statement, the Croatian People’s Movement’s initiative is described as “historical revisionism of the worst imaginable kind and a cover-up of the abhorrent crimes committed by the National State of Croatia as state policy.”
Simon Wiesenthal Center Director Efraim Zuroff said that it was “simply unimaginable” that a country at the doors of the EU should allow such a monument to be built on its soil.
“That kind of monument is a disgraceful falsification of Croatian history in World War II and an insult not only to the memories of the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, Serbs, Jews, Roma and Croatian anti-fascists killed by the ustasha, but also to anyone with a sense of moral integrity and a knowledge of Croatian history between 1941 and 1945,” said Zuroff.
Last month, the Croatian website Indeks reported the Croatian People’s Movement’s plan to erect a monument to Pavelić.
The organization announced earlier that its candidate at the upcoming Croatian presidential elections would be General Ante Gotovina, on trial at the Hague for war crimes during Operation Storm in 1995, though, Indeks added, no-one took these plans seriously. |
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