PUZIGAĆA: THE AIM OF MARKO PERKOVIĆ’S CONCERT IS INTIMIDATION AND PERSECUTION OF SERBS

BANJA LUKA, JULY 7 /SRNA/ - The president of the Association of Workers and Disabled Workers Displaced from Croatia, Nikola Puzigaća, believes that the aim of Marko Perković Tompson’s concert in Zagreb was to intimidate and persecute the remaining Serbs, and that the EU must sanction Croatia.

“Since the end of the war, Serbs have not returned to Croatia. Mostly elderly people live there now, and the younger generations do not wish to return permanently, as they were displaced and have since built new lives across the world,” Puzigaća told SRNA. According to him, this concert is an insult to all victims murdered in the Ustaše concentration camps of Jasenovac, Stara Gradiška, and other camps and killing sites during the Second World War, which is why the EU must sanction Croatia. “The EU, which claims to stand for democratic values and to be founded on anti-fascism, must finally break ties with Nazism or it will soon disintegrate,” Puzigaća said. Half a million people attended the concert of Croatian singer Marko Perković “Tompson” on Saturday evening in Zagreb, where, during the song “Bojna Čavoglave,” the crowd joyfully chanted the Ustaše salute “Za dom spremni!” /For the Homeland Ready!/. The concert was attended by numerous figures from Croatian public and political life, including the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Gordan Jandroković.