Croatian embassy received Serbia's protest note over neo-fascist rally

The Croatian embassy in Belgrade on Monday received Serbia's protest note.

The note was given to the charge d'affairs over the events that unfolded during Saturday's rally in Zagreb of the Autochthonous Croatian Rights Party (A-HSP).

A group of members of this extreme right-wing party protested against the possibility that a controversial plaque, placed near the site of the former Jasenovac death camp, might be removed.

The plaque contains the words, "Za dom spremni (For home ready)" - a greeting used by the Ustasha regime of the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which during the Second World War ran Jasenovac, a place of mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

During the protest the A-HSP members openly threatened Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, expressed their pro-Ustasha and anti-Serb positions, and set on fire a copy of the...