ZAGREB, March 29 (Hina) - Zagreb's Europe House on Saturday hosted a round-table debate attended by some 30 intellectuals and representatives of non-governmental organisations ahead of the imminent publication of Boris Raseta's "Storm
Over Croatia - Chronicle of a Case".
ZAGREB, March 29 (Hina) - Zagreb's Europe House on Saturday hosted a
round-table debate attended by some 30 intellectuals and
representatives of non-governmental organisations ahead of the
imminent publication of Boris Raseta's "Storm Over Croatia -
Chronicle of a Case". #L#
The book is a collection of media and political reactions to Bozo
Knezevic's film "Storm Over Krajina", which premiered at Croatian
Film Days in 2001 and was later aired on national television. The
film addresses crimes committed against Croatian Serbs during and
after Operation Storm, which in 1995 liberated parts of Croatian
territory occupied by Serb rebels.
Society "must take a stand regarding crimes" but should first
objectively analyse and reconstruct what happened, said attorney
Anto Nobilo. "A society which fails to take a stand towards
criminals and crimes is a sick society."
According to Milorad Pupovac, a Croatian Serb official, the press
evidently have a higher degree of freedom than the electronic
media. An especially interesting part of the book are transcripts
of online chats held on the topic, he said.
Pavle Vranjican, director of "Amarcord 1991-2000", a film in which
he pointed to the disproportion of what Knezevic, as a journalist of
JUTEL (a TV station established on the eve of the conflicts in
former Yugoslavia in an attempt to create federal television), did
and did not publish as ex-Yugoslavia was disintegrating, urged
investigating events from 1991 through 1995 and making a chronology
of what actually happened and not of what some thought had
happened.
Most participants in the debate agreed they lived in a society which
hesitated facing the truth.
Drago Pilsel said the book "doesn't show even a fifth" of what he
witnessed as a journalist.
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