ZAGREB, June 15 (Hina) - Organisers of the "Jazovka '99" walking commemoration to be held in memory of victims killed during World war II by partisan troops and thrown into the Jazovka pit, announced the event would take place on June
22. Chairman of the Jazovka '99 commemoration committee, Zvonimir Trusic, told Tuesday's news conference the main motive for organising the campaign was to warn that "nobody has been held accountable for crimes committed at that location". Stating the Jazovka mass grave was a synonym for all mass graves in World War II, after the war and in the homeland War, Trusic stressed state institutions must answer the question being posed every year "Who killed those people!?" President of the Croatian Pure Party of Rights, Ivan Gabelica, stressed the date of June 22, celebrated in Croatia as the day of Anti-Fascism Struggle, was chosen on purpose. Gabelica said the date did not mark the be
ZAGREB, June 15 (Hina) - Organisers of the "Jazovka '99" walking
commemoration to be held in memory of victims killed during World
war II by partisan troops and thrown into the Jazovka pit, announced
the event would take place on June 22.
Chairman of the Jazovka '99 commemoration committee, Zvonimir
Trusic, told Tuesday's news conference the main motive for
organising the campaign was to warn that "nobody has been held
accountable for crimes committed at that location".
Stating the Jazovka mass grave was a synonym for all mass graves in
World War II, after the war and in the homeland War, Trusic stressed
state institutions must answer the question being posed every year
"Who killed those people!?"
President of the Croatian Pure Party of Rights, Ivan Gabelica,
stressed the date of June 22, celebrated in Croatia as the day of
Anti-Fascism Struggle, was chosen on purpose.
Gabelica said the date did not mark the beginning of an uprising,
but the beginning of "the biggest of crimes committed against
Croatians".
(hina) lml jn