LINTA: CROATIA SHOWS IT IS POSSIBLE TO PROMOTE FASCISM WITH IMPUNITY

BELGRADE, APRIL 23 /SRNA/ – The President of the Association of Serbs from the Region Miodrag Linta told SRNA that Croatia is increasingly becoming a factor of instability and a negative example in Europe that it is possible to promote fascism and Nazism with impunity, as evidenced by the attack on a Serbian Orthodox church in Zagreb on the day marking 81 years since the breakout of the last group of inmates from the Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac.

"On the day when we remember the victims of Jasenovac, instead of a message of peace and respect, a sinister message was sent that there is no place for Serbs in Croatia, that the Ustasha genocidal regime is being indirectly glorified, and that these radical Ustasha forces want to complete what Ante Pavelić and Franjo Tuđman did not finish - that Serbs completely disappear so that one day it could be said they never existed in Croatia", Linta said.

He added that the act of hatred against Serbs is only one in a long series of attacks on Serbian churches, cemeteries, and parish buildings, and that it is a consequence of a broader anti-Serb atmosphere prevailing in Croatian society.

"Serbs are continuously sent messages of hatred and intolerance, messages that they are not welcome and that it would be best for them to leave", Linta stressed.

He called on the EU delegation in Croatia, ambassadors of EU member states in Zagreb, and other international organizations to condemn the incident and demand that Croatian authorities identify the organizers and perpetrators.

"To finally sanction all those responsible for such acts in the past. The Croatian government is essentially sending a negative message, and by failing to prosecute perpetrators it contributes to the perception that radical Ustasha forces can act without any punishment", he said.

Unknown attacker or attackers attempted overnight to damage the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration in central Zagreb.

According to local media reports, the vandals threw chairs onto the fence, broke glass on the entrance doors, hung nearby signs, and scattered grass around the premises.