Pupovac: Atrocities of Ustasha regime must not be forgotten

ZAGREB - On the occasion of 70 years since the breakthrough of Jasenovac camp inmates, President of the Serb National Council in Croatia Milorad Pupovac called on the Croatian society to resist "the atmosphere of fascization and nazization."

Some of the state officials avoid naming the holders of the Ustasha idea and transfer accountability for crimes to the Axis powers, Pupovac said in Jasenovac on Sunday, and urged the people not to allow the atrocities of the Ustasha regime to be forgotten.

Pupovac also asked: "Can pupils in Croatian primary schools be told that there was a children's death camp in Jasenovac in which 20,000 children aged up to 14 years were killed?"

He also posed a question whether they know about other concentration camps for children, in Sisak, Djakovo, Jastrebarsko and Krizevci, where Serb and Jewish children were starved and killed, while Roma children were immediately taken to execution sites with their parents.

Pupovac pointed out that the media give more space to the claims that all this was a Yugoslav-communist fabrication, and that representatives of the judiciary and many in politics see nothing disputable, much less dangerous in the crowd chanting Ustasha greeting "For the Homeland - Ready."

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