Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović he assessed, participating in the commemoration of the International Human Rights Day and the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: “STOP the hatred that destroys”, how “it is courage to stand up to violence of all kinds, including the verbal one that we have really been facing lately”. Božinović said that it is not an easy path, but he pointed out that the Ministry of the Interior is “firmly determined to go in that direction because it is the only path that will make us a civilized country in the 21st century”.
Speaking at the commemoration of the International Human Rights Day and the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, held at the “Prvi Croatian Redarstvenik” Police Academy, the minister said that the academy uses such occasions to draw attention away from the usual police reports to the context of what is happening in our society. global level.
“It is in our interest that society talks more and more in this context, that young people and children are talked about as much as possible, because this is where the struggle for a normal society and civilized relations within society begins. If it is achieved at the age of children and teenagers, then we all win and we can turn to what is most important to us, which is the economic, social, cultural and all-round development of Croatian society,” he said.
Božinović said that the MUP, considering how to mark this day, invited the writer and humanitarian Marijan Gubina as a guest, whom he pointed out is increasingly seen in the Croatian public as a person who can speak about some controversies and with an authority that is above others. He reminded that Gubina, who as a child was in a Serbian camp during the Homeland War, experienced aggression, slave status and “things that no child should or should not experience” in his youth.
“All contemporary societies lack a greater degree of humanism”
“However, Gubina is the person who in the end chose to testify about what he went through. That is why it is important that people like Marijan Gubina are given as much media and public space as possible, because these are the messages we need, that is, despite everything, we can talk about the future, that hatred does not have to create new hatred and that in fact it is inclusive and protects the rights of others courage in itself”.
“I can hardly imagine what Marijan Gubina went through in order to witness today what is most important and what is missing in all contemporary societies, which is a greater degree of humanism,” he added.
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Božinović emphasized that at the commemoration of the International Day of Human Rights and the International Day of the Abolition of Slavery, people who deal with specific criminal investigations also spoke, including Anita Matijevi, head of the Department of Juvenile Delinquency and Crime Against Youth and Families in the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the police, who pointed out that in just over a decade, we have more than 4,500 criminal acts against children and sexual exploitation of children.
“Her main message is that it is not 4,500 criminal acts as part of police statistics, but more than 4,500 lives at the most vulnerable age that will need a lot of care and empathy from society to help them get out of traumatic situations that include physical abuse,” he concluded.