Posted on 01/25/2017 3:31:48 PM PST by Ravnagora
Croatian Jews said on Monday they would boycott the country's main Holocaust remembrance event this week, accusing the authorities of playing down crimes perpetrated under the Nazi-backed Ustasa regime during World War Two.
Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic addresses a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany December 12, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on Jan. 27 each year, the date in 1945 when the biggest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz in occupied Poland, was liberated by Soviet troops.
Three months ago, rightist veterans of Croatia's 1991-95 independence war raised a commemorative plaque in the town of Jasenovac to comrades killed there at the beginning of the conflict Zagreb fought to secede from Serbian-led Yugoslavia.
Included in the veterans' plaque are words from a salute used by the Ustasha regime that killed tens of thousands of prisoners including Jews, Serbs, Roma gypsies and anti-fascist Croats, in the 1941-1945 Jasenovac concentration camp.
That prompted the association representing Croatia's remnant population of Jews, numbering somewhat over 1,500, to pull out of its primary Holocaust remembrance event, which is normally conducted in the Zagreb parliament.
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Ping!
Yes, the Nazi Ustasa perpetrated a horrific holocaust against the Jews.
They also perpetrated a horrific holocaust against the Orthodox Christian Serbs!!!!
And at least some Croats continues to glorify their Nazi-Ustasa grandfathers!!!! (See, for example, the band “Thompson”.)
It’s high time to de-Nazify, and to give back the Serb Krajina!!!!
The genocide against Serbs by Nazi Croats is almost unknown here.
I’ll need to review my Cliff Notes about World History first before I can form an opinion. This sounds like a dispute that has been simmering since the end of WW2.
What is horrifying is also that Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats are the same ethnicity, the same language-speakers, separated by religion and history.
sad
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