The Director of the Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Arno Gujon, today condemned the adoption of a new law in Croatia that allows the removal of Serbian gravestones erected after 1990.
In a video posted on social media in English, Gujon warned the domestic and international public about an “act of institutional discrimination” which, as he stated, will have “serious consequences.”
He warned that the new Croatian law targets monuments that pay tribute to Serbian soldiers and civilian victims during the 1991-1995 war, or are inscribed in the Cyrillic script used by Serbs.
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“Families of the deceased are now forced to remove these monuments at their own expense within 30 days, otherwise they will be fined a sum that can reach up to 5,000 euros. The fate of the monuments is decided by a state commission, without clear criteria, without the right to appeal. This is pure Serbophobia,” he emphasized.
Gujon says that this represents a comprehensive attempt to erase memory, humiliate the dead, and systematically remove traces of Serbian existence in the area of present-day Croatia. “These monuments are not symbols of hatred, but symbols of loss, suffering, and resistance.
While such discrimination against Serbs is carried out before the eyes of Europe, it should be remembered that Croatia ethnically cleansed a quarter of a million Serbs in 1995, and today it is trying to erase their memory, identity, and the traces they left behind. Serbia remembers its sons, its fathers, its dead,” Gujon concluded, as reported by Tanjug.
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Source: Politika, Foto:Uprava za saradnju sa dijasporom i Srbima u regionu