VIDAKOVIĆ: USTAŠA CRIME IN ŠUŠNJAR BEARS ELEMENTS OF GENOCIDE

SANSKI MOST, AUGUST 2 /SRNA/ – Assistant Minister of Labour, Veterans-Invalid Affairs of Republika Srpska, Nebojša Vidaković, stated that Šušnjar is a place of pain, where on St. Elijah's Day in 1941, the Ustaše killed 5,500 people and committed a horrific crime that bore all the elements of genocide.

"If we know that the Independent State of Croatia had a programme to kill one third of the Serbs, convert one third to Catholicism, and expel one third to Serbia, then everything is clear," Vidaković told the press at Šušnjar, where today marks the 84th anniversary of the Ustaše crime against 5,500 Serbs, Jews, and Roma, committed in early August 1941. He added that, unfortunately, this crime was forgotten after World War II. "Until the 1970s, it wasn’t even talked about - all in the name of a false brotherhood and unity, in the name of the ideology that ruled in that era. It is up to us to remember this, to ensure it is not forgotten, and to teach young generations who was killing us, and why," Vidaković emphasized.