Ante Pavelic

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Nikola Selakovic on Tuesday awarded a Serbian passport and citizenship to Marija Jovovic, daughter of Blagoje Jovovic, the assassin of Ante Pavelic, who was the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, the WWII-era pro-Nazi puppet state.

The archives in question will be opened on March 2, 2020.

A vineyard owner in Bosnia and Herzegovina is selling bottles of wine labelled with a picture of Croatian WWII-era fascist Ustasa leader Ante Pavelic.

The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center also told Vienna-based daily Der Standard that Austria's handling of perpetrators was "absolutely idiotic."

He particularly criticized the events taking place in Bleiburg each year, which the newspaper described as "annual meeting of right-wing extremist held in mid-May in Carinthia."

The leadership of the small Jewish community in Croatia, along with representatives of the country's Serb minority, has boycotted the last two government-sponsored Holocaust commemorations in 2016 and 2017.

BELGRADE - Alojzije Stepinac, the man who supported the Ustasha regime, can be neither a saint nor hero, said Efraim Zuroff, director of the Center "Simon Wiesenthal", following the unveiling of the memorial to the bishop of the Catholic Church in Osijek.

Activists said they were attacked before staging a protest in Zagreb against an annual mass to commemorate the death of WWII Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelic.

BELGRADE - Nebojsa Stefanovic, vice-president of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), qualified on Friday as scandalous the statement by the newly-elected President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic that all Serbs in Croatia are Croats.

During the election campaign, Grabar Kitarovic addressed all citizens of Croatia as "Croats".

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has described the memorial mass held in Zagreb for Croatia's wartime Fascist dictator, Ante Pavelic, as an insult to the memory of hundreds of thousands of victims of his regime.

Church in Croatia slammed by Simon Wiesenthal Center

JERUSALEM -- The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center has condemned the holding of a mass in a Catholic church in Zagreb, Croatia, commemorating Ante Pavelic.