Banac said present-day Croatia was in the hands of individuals and parties that did not care for all victims equally, adding that what the central government did not do could be done by local government, associations, and civil society representatives, which he said should protest against the direction Croatia was taking.
Banac said Croatia was not ready for the democratic path when Communism fell and that one could not be indifferent to attempts to justify Ustasha crimes or the crime committed by the communists in Srb in 1941.
Banac said he supported Karamarko's attempt to launch processes against those who ordered communist crimes, adding that the crimes in Jasenovac and on the Way of the Cross marches should be equally condemned.
Cicak recalled that a grave was found near Zapresic, near Zagreb, a few years ago where 4,500 people had been killed, but said nothing had been done about it to date.
He called President Ivo Josipovic an expert on war crimes, saying his visit to Istria, walking under a five-pointed star flag, was an act of high treason. "That flag can't be in Croatia given that it was used to storm Vukovar and Dubrovnik."
Karamarko said that according to police evidence, there were 750 pits in Croatia and, according to some experts, as many as 1,300, in which 90,000 people where killed, but that only 50 pits were marked in a dignified manner, which he said testified to the continued negation of communist crimes.
"After the war in 1945, more than 300,000 people were executed without a trial and now they want us to be blind to the fate of our fellow countrymen," he said commenting on the incumbent government's treatment of the victims of Communism. He criticised the government for cancelling parliament's sponsorship of commemorations at Bleiburg "even though that place is a symbol of Croatian suffering."
The panel was organised by the HHO and the Daksa 1944/45 Association.