Representatives of the government and the opposition reacted today to the ban on Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić from visiting Jasenovac, who wanted to come as a private person.
Defense Minister Nebojša Stefanović said that such “decision of the Croatian government is the biggest shame in Europe after the Second World War”.
“It is the most brutal post-war rehabilitation of Nazi ideas that Europe must not be silent about. It was not some extremist phalanx that stood in the way of the president of Serbia laying flowers in Jasenovac, but the government of a country, a member of the European Union (EU),” said Stefanović, in written statement.
Minister without portfolio Nenad Popović said that it was shown that “the government in Zagreb does not have an iota of repentance for the terrible genocide they committed against our people”.
“And we should certainly inform their bosses in Brussels, with the question, whether it is acceptable for them that one of their members, through hatred of Serbs and bans on visits to the most terrible concentration camps in Europe, promotes the most terrible ideology, which we thought was finally defeated in 1945. year”, announced Popović.
The Serbian party Zavetnici announced that its parliamentary group was recently “literally expelled from Croatia for visiting the memorial complex of the Jasenovac camp”.
“On that occasion, we warned that what happened to our MPs could happen to any other citizen of Serbia, and today we see it also to the President of the Republic,” said party president Milica Djurdjević Stamenkovski.
The movement for the restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) of Vojislav Mihailović condemned the “uncivilized action of the Croatian authorities”. “This is a confirmation of the correctness of our proposal for the Serbian Parliament to adopt the Resolution on Ustasha crimes, and to build a large memorial complex in Belgrade in which all the victims of the Ustasha and other Nazis in the Second World War would be listed and thus be honored,” stated Mihailović.