ZAGREB/MILAN, Mar 29 (Hina) - Italian daily paper Corriere Della Sera on Monday carried an interview with a Belgrade-based witness in the trial against Croatian war crimes suspect Dinko Sakic. Sakic is the former commander of
Jasenovac, a Croatian concentration camp during World War Two, currently being tried for war crimes against humanity at the Zagreb County Court. "As in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in Kosovo, we Serbs have been accused of ethnic cleansing and massacres. But during war, all sides commit massacres. And we Serbs have been paying for this by forced emigrations throughout the years. It has been so for centuries," witness Josip Erlin told the Italian daily. "You Italians are familiar with (Italian WW2 author) Curzio Malaparte. Maybe you should read him before accusing the Serbs," Erlin said, adding in Jasenovac "it was worse than in Auschwitz." "They did have gas chambers, but the
ZAGREB/MILAN, Mar 29 (Hina) - Italian daily paper Corriere Della
Sera on Monday carried an interview with a Belgrade-based witness
in the trial against Croatian war crimes suspect Dinko Sakic.
Sakic is the former commander of Jasenovac, a Croatian
concentration camp during World War Two, currently being tried for
war crimes against humanity at the Zagreb County Court.
"As in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in Kosovo, we Serbs have been
accused of ethnic cleansing and massacres. But during war, all
sides commit massacres. And we Serbs have been paying for this by
forced emigrations throughout the years. It has been so for
centuries," witness Josip Erlin told the Italian daily.
"You Italians are familiar with (Italian WW2 author) Curzio
Malaparte. Maybe you should read him before accusing the Serbs,"
Erlin said, adding in Jasenovac "it was worse than in Auschwitz."
"They did have gas chambers, but the Ustashi first tortured with
axes and knives," he told Corriere Della Sera, and added that "many
women were raped, left to die eating water and salt, while children
were immediately killed."
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