Persecution of Serbs

Anti-fascists in the Croatian city of Sibenik staged a protest during the promotion of a book that downplays the crimes committed at the Ustasa-run Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.

Historian Ivo Goldstein launched a new study of Croatia’s Jasenovac concentration camp, challenging attempts to downplay the crimes committed there by the fascist Ustasa during World War II.

The Serbian Defence Ministry has published a book by the former Yugoslav Army chief of staff Nebojsa Pavkovic, who is currently serving a prison sentence for war crimes in Kosovo.

An ethnic Albanian witness told a Belgrade court how Serbian soldiers killed some of his neighbours and robbed him of his money during an attack on the Kosovo village of Zahaq/Zahac in 1999.

Slovenian right-winger Roman Leljak will promote his book and film denying academic research-based data on the Jasenovac World War II concentration camp at Catholic church venues across Croatia.

The Minister said this on the 79th Anniversary of the World War II outbreak.

Index.hr, Zagreb-based portal writes this and adds that Croatian Wikipedia cites as a relevant source Igor Vukics new book, Labour Camp Jasenovac

Croatian Wikipedia has again amended its entry on the World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac – naming it a 'collection' and 'labour camp' and again disputing the broadly accepted name-by-name list of victims.

As Tanjug learns from the well-informed church circles, the special meeting is a possibility even though the Church's stance "on the issue remains clear and unchanged".

The Church's position, announced after the May meeting, is that Serbia must not lose Kosovo.

They were spending a summer day on the banks of the Bistrica River, near their homes in the Serb enclave of Gorazdevac - a village in the western part of Kosovo.

19-year-old Ivan Jovovic, and 12-year-old Pantelija Dakic were killed in the attack.