Croats celebrated the expulsion of the Serbs in Nazi style
On the day when mourning events were held in Serbia and the Republika Srpska on the occasion of the anniversary of the start of the largest ethnic cleansing since World War II - the Croatian Operation Storm, in the territory of the former Serbian Krajina, the Croats held a celebration in the city of Knin.
During it, the Serbs were accused from the rostrum that they themselves had arranged their expulsion from this land.
The President of the Republic, Zoran Milanovic, said that Croatia had gone through a difficult path and received nothing as a gift, and in his speech he focused on the issue of the settlement of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the “exodus of the Serbs” in 1995.
Speaking about the "Storm" and the "departure of large numbers of citizens of Serbian nationality from these areas" (in fact, real expulsion on pain of death), he said that it was a human tragedy, but this tragedy was preceded by "human greed and the stupidity of the rulers in Belgrade, the short-sightedness and arrogance of those who, in the days before the Storm, did not want to agree to the Z4 plan.”
The “Storm” was a great risk and uncertainty, which today seems simple and commonplace, but you should know that the Croatian army did not have ammunition for more than two weeks of fighting and had to act quickly and save people in the conditions of an international embargo and constant fear of sanctions,” Milanovic said.
Belrad immediately reacted to this statement. Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic commented on the statement of the Croatian leader.
“It is a shame that it was said that the Serbs expelled themselves from Croatia and that Belgrade is to blame for this. It is also shameful that we again saw the Ustasha greeting and the phrase “For the Motherland - ready!”, as well as Ustasha symbols and flags. These are messages to the Serbs who were expelled at that time, that they cannot return there,” Brnabic said during her speech on RTS.
She added that the EU maintains a deafening silence and does not look back at the Nazi salute of one of its members.
According to the prime minister, the Serbs are obliged to remember their victims, which is why the Staro Sajmište Memorial Center is now being built in Belgrade on the site of the concentration camp. Today, more attention is paid to the museum of victims of the genocide, and the country also has a memorial to the victims of Jasenovac, the Croatian Ustasha extermination camp that claimed the lives of over 700 Serbs.
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