SRB, July 27 (Hina) - Members of the Alliance of Anti-Fascist Fighters of Croatia (SAB) marked July 27, the Croatian People's Uprising Day in the former Yugoslav federation, by laying wreaths in Srb and neighbouring villages Popino
Polje and Srpski Klanac in central Croatia at the feet of monuments to soldiers killed in the NOB, World War Two's national liberation struggle. Some 30 SAB members from Zagreb arrived in Srb on Thursday, where they were joined by a dozen locals. The SAB delegation was headed by SAB presidency member Vlado Jurak. Addressing the gathered, Jurak said that once they all united in fighting a bitter enemy, fascism. "Today, we still haven't defeated those forces completely, we still have a struggle against nationalism, against extremist groups and fascist ideas. If once we defeated the enemy, today is the time for us to do it again with our struggle and influence,"
SRB, July 27 (Hina) - Members of the Alliance of Anti-Fascist
Fighters of Croatia (SAB) marked July 27, the Croatian People's
Uprising Day in the former Yugoslav federation, by laying wreaths
in Srb and neighbouring villages Popino Polje and Srpski Klanac in
central Croatia at the feet of monuments to soldiers killed in the
NOB, World War Two's national liberation struggle.
Some 30 SAB members from Zagreb arrived in Srb on Thursday, where
they were joined by a dozen locals. The SAB delegation was headed by
SAB presidency member Vlado Jurak.
Addressing the gathered, Jurak said that once they all united in
fighting a bitter enemy, fascism. "Today, we still haven't defeated
those forces completely, we still have a struggle against
nationalism, against extremist groups and fascist ideas. If once we
defeated the enemy, today is the time for us to do it again with our
struggle and influence," he said.
Jurak said the first Ustashi gun in Srb fired a shot on 27 July 1941,
when the people started to rise up to put a stop to fascism's
tyranny.
He asserted 3,000 NOB monuments had been pulled down, adding "the
people capable of doing that does not acknowledge its past and will
hardly have a future."
Jurak said future generations had to be told what happened between
1991 and 1995.
"Like we used to say of 1941, 'may it never happen again', in 50
years time we shall say 'may it never happen again' for the 1991-
1995 period as well," he said.
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