Ana Brnabic (BETAPHOTO/SERBIAN GOVERNMENT/SLOBODAN MILJEVIC)
On July 18 in Belgrade, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Branbic requested an explanation from the Croatian government as to why Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was not allowed to visit the site of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp, where Serbs, Jews and Roma were imprisoned and systematically killed during the Second World War by Croatian Ustashe.
“[President Vucic] has not been prohibited from visiting Croatia: he may travel to Pula, Rovinj, Opatija, on the seaside, but he cannot go to Jasenovac. The message this sends is even more brutal and chilling than if they had banned him from visiting Croatia at all,” Brnabic told Happy TV.
The prime minister underlined that Vucic will be responding to “this nonsense” from Croatia in the afternoon of July 18 and invited the citizens of Serbia to tune into his statement.
According to her, Vucic has so far demonstrated his tolerance on numerous occasions, his only wish for the visit being to lay a flower at the site of the Serbian people’s most gruesome suffering.
In Brnabic’s opinion, the Croatian government’s response to Vucic’s request has above all “humiliated Croatia.”
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