Linta: Croatia never admitted genocide against Serbs

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta has said on the occasion of 74 years since the proclamation of the quisling Independent State of Croatia (NDH) that Croatian society had failed to face its past and had never acknowledged committing genocide against Serbs during WWII.

Linta is confident that one of the reasons for such a situation in Croatia was the fact that a significant portion of the Croatian political, ecclesiastical, scientific, cultural and sporting elite is supporting and promoting the Ustasha agenda or is turning a deaf ear to the increasing extolling of it.

According to a poll conducted by the Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji List, about 40 percent of Croatians think positively about the Ustashas and justify their mass crimes against Serbs, Jews and Roma, Linta said.

This fostering of the Ustasha legacy in Croatia can often be seen at sports matches, concerts, and in inscriptions on the walls of Croatian towns and cities, he observed.

With the new exhibition setting at the Jasenovac concentration camp, Croatia is making the NDH crimes look less severe and has even reduced the number of killed to 80,000, Linta said, pointing out that one can no more see as exhibits any knives, mallets and other weapons used to torture and murder Serbs, Jews and Roma in the camp.

In addition, the monuments to the victims of the NDH crimes that have been destroyed and desecrated over the past 25 years are not being renewed, said Linta.