Ivo Josipovic Croatia (Photo: HINA / Denis Ceric)
A former Croatian president, Ivo Josipovic, described as "extremely inappropriate" a speech by his successor, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, at a ceremony celebrating the 24th anniversary of the "Storm" war operation in the Croatian town of Knin, on Aug. 5, warning that political elites in Croatia and Serbia felt the need to reheat tensions all the time to stay in power using the old platforms.
"The president's speech in Knin was the privatization of a public ceremony, which was extremely inappropriate. It was an intolerable performance, and yet another indicator of social regression. Not only did she talk nonsense, given the occasion, but her gesticulation was awkward, too. So much so in fact that many wondered if a consummation of alcohol might have preceded it," Josipovic said in a televised interview with the Zagreb TV channel N1.
Josipovic also said that the general picture of this year's celebration of the Homeland Thanksgiving Day was very ugly, and that the right-wingers shouting 'For Homeland, Ready' made it look like a right-wing "fair."
The former president felt that Serbia, too, instrumentalized the suffering of innocent people, the Serbs who left Croatia during the "Storm."
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