Croatian nationalism

An expert advisory council said the Croatian government should allow the WWII fascist salute ‘Za dom spremni’, which has caused repeated controversy, to be used “in exceptional situations” under strict conditions.

He met and spoke with ethnic Serbs there, and visited a local elementary school, to which he presented a gift - 11 laptop computers.

Tanjug is reporting that police increased their presence along the route Vucic's delegation traveled today.

Vrginmost was a place of suffering of Serbs, both in the Second World War and in during the war in the 1900s.

While television footages recently shot showed an incredible ignorance among young people in Croatia about what happened in Jasenovac during the bloody Ustasha regime, a debate broke out as to how many Croats know about this notorious death camp at all. If it is to judge by what TV reporters of several TV productions said, little or nothing.

Robert McCormick, chair of the Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, recently published a book through I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd. titled "Croatia Under Ante Pavelic: America, the Ustase and Croatian Genocide."

The Jasenovac concentration camp was an extermination camp established in Slavonia by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The camp was established by the governing Ustaše regime and not operated by Nazi Germany.

Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic has opened the exhibition "Jasenovac - the Right Not to Forget,", staged at the UN in New York City.

In his address, Dacic invited Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic to travel to Jasenovac and bow before the victims.

In his address, Dacic invited Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic to travel to Jasenovac and bow before the victims.

Jasenovac was a death camp set up by the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) - a wartime Nazi-allied entity - and a place of mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

The report describes Croatia as a country fostering a climate of hatred and intimidation, and one "increasingly moving to the right" - while ruled by "a radical political discourse where the keywords are 'enemy, homeland, nation, and, treason'."

The Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting this on Thursday.

According to the article, Croatia desisted from the effort once UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres approved the exhibition, that deals with the crimes committed by the Ustasha regime of the Nazi-allied WW2 entity Independent State of Croatia (NDH) against Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

County court in the Croatian coastal city Split issued one-year prison sentence for two Croats who beat a Serb on Orthodox Christmas in 1998.