The alliance said that his statements and statements by other public figures had triggered off "an avalanche of unfounded and malicious accusations".
Citing some of the atrocities committed by the Nazi-style Ustasha regime in WWII, the alliance said that the campaign against the Partisans was designed to discredit the entire anti-Fascist movement.
In mid-February the interior minister said that Croatia was strewn with pits containing dead bodies killed in the aftermath of World War II, but that the political elites had not been sensitive to that issue in the last 20 years.
Those pits have not been investigated, the perpetrators have not been identified and it is not known why those people were killed," Karamarko said in an interview with Croatian Radio on 13 February. Karamarko said that antifascism was a globally recognised achievement of civilisation and that "only madmen are not against fascism." He said that "a lot of evil" had been done by Communist and Bolshevik regimes, and that the Croatian people was the victim of both. "Fascism, Bolshevism, Nazism and Communism are the garbage of the 20th century."
The grave found in the Zagreb district of Kustosija, where exhumation has recently begun, is one of 741 graves in Croatia which, according to Interior Ministry data, could contain the remains of people killed in World War Two and its aftermath.