“Jasenovac crimes must never be forgotten”
Croat President Ivo Josipović said on Sunday at a commemoration to victims of the Jasenovac death camp that the crimes committed there must not be forgotten.
Sunday, 22.04.2012.
15:46
Croat President Ivo Josipovic said on Sunday at a commemoration to victims of the Jasenovac death camp that the crimes committed there must not be forgotten. He added that the crimes "must not be denied either". “Jasenovac crimes must never be forgotten” The Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and its Ustasha regime operated this and other death camps, that became places of mass slaughter of Serbs, Jews and Roma during the Second World War. “Oblivion and denial represent the biggest dangers for democracy, freedom and humanity and that is why we must not allow the things that happened in Jasenovac to be forgotten,” he said at the commemoration which was attended by Croatia’s top officials. The president warned that Croat school books did not contain the whole truth about WWII. Josipovic noted that many had not learnt anything from tragic cases such as Jasenovac and that movements that could step over humanity, freedom and democracy appeared all over again. He added, however, that Croatia has “enough intelligence and common sense” and that it would never allow fascist, Nazi and Ustasha ideas to flourish. Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said that the crimes in Jasenovac did not happen in a spur of a moment as a result of temporary hatred and that it was a long process and that the killings were planned. He stressed that "it should be said openly" that Serbs suffered the most in the Jasenovac concentration camp, followed by Jews, Roma and Croat antifascists. Today marks the Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate mass killings of Serbs, Jews and Roma in Ustasha and Nazi death camps. The Memorial Day for victims of the Ustasha genocide in the former Independent State of Croatia (NDH) marks an attempted escape of around 1,000 prisoners from the Jasenovac death camp in the night between April 21 and 22, 1945. Only 118 prisoners managed to escape. Ivo Josipovic (Tanjug, file) Beta
“Jasenovac crimes must never be forgotten”
The Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and its Ustasha regime operated this and other death camps, that became places of mass slaughter of Serbs, Jews and Roma during the Second World War.“Oblivion and denial represent the biggest dangers for democracy, freedom and humanity and that is why we must not allow the things that happened in Jasenovac to be forgotten,” he said at the commemoration which was attended by Croatia’s top officials.
The president warned that Croat school books did not contain the whole truth about WWII.
Josipović noted that many had not learnt anything from tragic cases such as Jasenovac and that movements that could step over humanity, freedom and democracy appeared all over again.
He added, however, that Croatia has “enough intelligence and common sense” and that it would never allow fascist, Nazi and Ustasha ideas to flourish.
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanović said that the crimes in Jasenovac did not happen in a spur of a moment as a result of temporary hatred and that it was a long process and that the killings were planned.
He stressed that "it should be said openly" that Serbs suffered the most in the Jasenovac concentration camp, followed by Jews, Roma and Croat antifascists.
Today marks the Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate mass killings of Serbs, Jews and Roma in Ustasha and Nazi death camps.
The Memorial Day for victims of the Ustasha genocide in the former Independent State of Croatia (NDH) marks an attempted escape of around 1,000 prisoners from the Jasenovac death camp in the night between April 21 and 22, 1945. Only 118 prisoners managed to escape.
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