Croatian FM calls rehabilitation "regrettable"

Croatian FM Vesna Pusić said the proceedings to rehabilitate Gen. Draža Mihailović under way in Serbia were "regrettable, and are pulling Serbia backwards".

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 28.03.2012.

19:03

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Croatian FM Vesna Pusic said the proceedings to rehabilitate Gen. Draza Mihailovic under way in Serbia were "regrettable, and are pulling Serbia backwards". In her opinion, Croatia was "in a similar place" 15 years ago. Croatian FM calls rehabilitation "regrettable" "When a country starts finding justification and rehabilitating its own quislings from the Second World War and Nazi collaborators and fascists, it is not good for the region, because it gets pulled backwards, as does the country itself." "If you think you can win an election or strengthen your position with these kinds of issues, it means there is a rather strong retrograde tendency in the country and that is bad for everyone," Pusic told a local website. She stressed it is "the worst for Serbia, because it cannot make progress until it breaks free from this". The right-wing opposition Croatian Democratic Alliance (HDZ) in the meantime called for the Croatian ambassador to be recalled from Belgrade because of court proceedings to politically rehabilitate WW2-era General Dragomir Draza Mihailovic. Mihailovic was the leader of royalist forces, known as Chetniks, during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, and also led them in the civil war that raged between royalists and communists. The Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) - whose leader Vuk Draskovic was earlier in his political career a champion of rehabilitation of the Chetnik movement - said today that Croatia "has no moral or historical right to teach the Belgrade court about its anti-fascist and anti-Nazi obligations". During the Second World War, the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) ran death camps, committing mass murder of Serbs, Romas and Jews. The SPO statement on Wednesday noted that the Croatian parliament in 1993 rehabilitated members of the genocidal Croat forces of the NDH era, and that they have been "receiving pensions and disability allowances ever since". Mihailovic is depicted in a graffiti in Belgrade (Beta) Tanjug

Croatian FM calls rehabilitation "regrettable"

"When a country starts finding justification and rehabilitating its own quislings from the Second World War and Nazi collaborators and fascists, it is not good for the region, because it gets pulled backwards, as does the country itself."

"If you think you can win an election or strengthen your position with these kinds of issues, it means there is a rather strong retrograde tendency in the country and that is bad for everyone," Pusić told a local website.

She stressed it is "the worst for Serbia, because it cannot make progress until it breaks free from this".

The right-wing opposition Croatian Democratic Alliance (HDZ) in the meantime called for the Croatian ambassador to be recalled from Belgrade because of court proceedings to politically rehabilitate WW2-era General Dragomir Draža Mihailović.

Mihailović was the leader of royalist forces, known as Chetniks, during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, and also led them in the civil war that raged between royalists and communists.

The Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) - whose leader Vuk Drašković was earlier in his political career a champion of rehabilitation of the Chetnik movement - said today that Croatia "has no moral or historical right to teach the Belgrade court about its anti-fascist and anti-Nazi obligations".

During the Second World War, the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) ran death camps, committing mass murder of Serbs, Romas and Jews.

The SPO statement on Wednesday noted that the Croatian parliament in 1993 rehabilitated members of the genocidal Croat forces of the NDH era, and that they have been "receiving pensions and disability allowances ever since".

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