Josipovic: Evil should be called out so it is not repeated

JASENOVAC - A commemoration marking the 69th anniversary of a breakout by the prisoners of the Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac was held on Sunday, and Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said genocide had occurred at that location and that it should never be forgotten.

Josipovic called on everyone to protect the memory of the people who had died in that camp, a place that would remain in collective memory forever, the Croatian electronic medie reported.
"Evil should be called by its real name, opposed and denied any opportunity to happen ever again," he stated.

Evil is not gone, "it is there, lurking, and we muct take care that it does not come back and happen again," the Croatian president noted.
"These crimes did not happen in the people's name, but in the name of a country that never has and never will exist. That country had regulations that it overzealously started implementing before the Third Reich and there is no excuse for that," Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic stressed.

"I will never understand how there was burning and killing in Croatia even before Germany's invasion of Russia," he underscored, according to HRT, adding that Jasenovac had been the site of an extermination of minorities the likes of which Europe had not seen.

The killers are long dead, but those who spread sympathy for them today arouse evil in people, Milanovic emphasized, adding that modern Croatia guaranteed that such an evil would not be repeated.

Jasenovac was the largest concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia run by Ante Pavelic and his Ustasha movement. Men, women and children were systematically murdered in the camp between August 1941 and April 22, 1945, because of their religion, nationality or...