CROATIAN PARLIAMENT TRIES TO DIMINISH HORRORS OF JASENOVAC WITH LIES

BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 29 /SRNA/ – The president of the Banja Luka Association of WWII Camp Inmates Dragoslav Ilić believes that the roundtable held in the Croatian Parliament about the Jasenovac concentration camp is not an isolated incident of a handful of right-wingers, but a continuous revisionism present in Croatia's highest legislative body, as well as an attempt to establish continuity with the NDH institutions.

Ilić told SRNA that the recent roundtable on the Jasenovac concentration and death camp, held in the Parliament under a significantly altered name, was organised by right-wing deputies, which only confirms the ongoing actions of this institution that began just before the last war. "It was precisely this institution that `established` that only a few thousand people died in Jasenovac. The Parliament itself was also the patron of neo-Ustasha gatherings in Bleiburg until they were banned by the Austrian authorities,” emphasized Ilić, who is also a historian. He pointed out that it is scandalous that the official list of speaker of the Croatian Parliament includes the name of Marko Došen, who headed that institution during the criminal NDH regime. "At the roundtable, one could hear claims that students went to the Jasenovac camp for internships, that there is no evidence of mass suffering of Serbs, and that the camp merely served to isolate part of the population, and similar absurdities," said Ilić. The Croatian Anti-Fascist League criticized the roundtable titled "A Scientific Approach to Researching Jasenovac Victims" held in the Croatian Parliament, calling it a gathering of unscrupulous manipulators who falsify the tragedy that occurred more than 80 years ago.