Bratina, Photo: BETAPHOTO
Croatian Minister of Veterans Affairs Tomo Medved condemned today the controversial statements of Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Boris Bratina about Croatia and assessed that Serbia has long refused to face its role in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the 1990s.
“Serbia is trying to equalize responsibility, which is absolutely impossible. Croatia was the victim of brutal Serbian aggression carried out by the so-called Yugoslav Army, under MiloÅ¡ević’s leadership, and based on the ideas of a Greater Serbia policy. It can still be heard today from the Minister of Information who, like Goebbels, directs the entire world’s approach towards Serbia through false theses,” Medved said in Zagreb when asked by a journalist about the Serbian minister’s statement.
Bratina told TV Informer, among other things, that Croatia must somehow be punished for its “horrific participation in World War I, and especially in World War II, and especially since the beginning of the 1990s… in fact throughout socialism” and presented the thesis that Croatia, like Ukraine, must pay with territory for its alleged historical crimes.
“Like the Ukrainians, they have to pay for it with territory. There is no other punishment,” Bratina said.
“These narratives of theirs simply won’t pass,” Medved said, according to the Hina news agency.
He condemned “every form of attempt to distort historical facts and every rhetorical approach through which the territory of the Republic of Croatia is mentioned.”
“We are protecting our territory and building Croatia as a strong, secure and prosperous country,” the Croatian minister emphasized.
Medved assessed that Serbia is avoiding facing its past, which has been “a continuity of politics in Serbia for many years.”
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