Flowers in Ustasha U shape planted in Jasenovac

ZAGREB – Flowers in the colors of the Croatian “Chessboard” flag and shaped in the form of the U symbol of the Ustasha, Croatian pro-Nazi regime responsible for massive killings of Serbs, Jews and Roma in concentration camps during World War II, have been planted at the Jasenovac Memorial Site in central Croatia.

The association of libertarian activists in Croatia has demanded from competent institutions to act urgently and have the flowers removed and those in the Jasenovac Memorial Site management responsible for the provocation appropriately sanctioned, Croatian website Zpress.hr reports.

“When you see those flowers as white and red squares, arranged in the shape of the letter U, planted at the Jasenovac Memorial Site, you are not sure if you are awake or in some kind of nightmare,” the activists said in a release.

People were imprisoned, tortured and killed there “because of being of ‘wrong’ nationality, religious affiliation or worldview, and those committing the crimes were the very ones whose symbols were the letter U and the white and red squares.”

“People come to Jasenovac to pay their respects to the innocent victims, and then they see a glorification of the genocidal regime that committed crimes there in which, according to official records, over 80 thousand people were killed.

“In addition, it is important to note that because of the symbolism of Jasenovac, where people were imprisoned, tortured and killed not only in the name of the Ustasha, the Nazi ideology, but also on behalf of the Croatian government and Croatian statehood, and the purity of the Croatian nation, special care should be taken, for the sake of decency, that not even the legitimate state symbols of the...