Jasenovac

War veterans' associations and Croatia's war veterans' minister have condemned President Zoran Milanovic for saying that a controversial plaque with the Ustasa slogan 'Za dom spremni' ('Ready for the Home(land)') should be removed.

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.

BELGRADE - Veterans of Croatia's 1990s military campaign have caused controversy after they put up a plaque in Jasenovac honoring the memory of their fallen comrades, and also included a fascist slogan associated with the WWII genocidal Independent State of Croatia.

The possible adoption of a law in Croatia banning the diplay of all totalitarian symbols, announced by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Monday, carries potential risks and dangers, an expert has said.

JASENOVAC - Today's Croatia is not a successor to the (Nazi puppet state) Independent State of Croatia (NDH), Zoran Milanovic has said at a commemoration marking 70 years since the break-out of inmates from Ustasha-run death camp Jasenovac.

JASENOVAC - Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) held a memorial service in the Saint Ilija Cathedral in Mlaka near Jasenovac on Tuesday to mark April 22 as the day of the breakthrough of the Jasenovac prison camp inmates.