Representatives of the Serbian and Jewish communities in Croatia today announced that they will hold a special commemoration in April for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp from the Second World War and that they will not participate in the joint commemoration, proposed by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.
On Saturday, Plenkovic called on the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters and Anti-Fascists of the Republic of Croatia, and representatives of Jews, Serbs and Roma, together with state officials, to hold a memorial to the victims of this Ustasha camp.
In the past three years, representatives of the Serbian, Jewish and Roma communities, as well as anti-fascists, who made up the majority of the victims killed in Jasenovac, boycotted the official commemoration in protest of the government's failure to cope with the historical revisionism of the atrocities of the Second World War.
He announced that on April 12, the Serbian, Jewish and Roma minorities and anti-fascists will hold a special commemoration.
According to the list of the Jasenovac Memorial Center, between 1941 and 1945, Ustashas killed 83,145 prisoners, Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascists in the camp.
