KERESTINEC, July 14 (Hina) - Representatives of anti-fascist fighters' associations, the Social Democratic Party, and the Socialist Labour Party (SRP) marked on Monday the 62nd anniversary of the breakout of 90 anti-fascists from an
Ustasha concentration camp at Kerestinec by laying wreaths by a monument to the camp's victims.
KERESTINEC, July 14 (Hina) - Representatives of anti-fascist
fighters' associations, the Social Democratic Party, and the
Socialist Labour Party (SRP) marked on Monday the 62nd anniversary
of the breakout of 90 anti-fascists from an Ustasha concentration
camp at Kerestinec by laying wreaths by a monument to the camp's
victims. #L#
Ivan Fumic, president of the Alliance of Anti-fascist Fighters,
said that "for ten years we had retrograde ideas among those in
power in Croatia, and they can still be felt today through people
who revise history and wear black uniforms".
"It takes a statesman from Israel to come here and tell our
political elite they should be proud of us anti-fascists," Fumic
said.
He said textbooks should be objective in teaching about the
National Liberation Struggle and the significance and role of Josip
Broz Tito and the Communist Party in WWII.
In the night between 13 and 14 July 1941, about 90 inmates of
Kerestinec disarmed the Ustasha guards and broke out of the camp.
Only 13 survived.
(hina) ha sb