MUSLIMS IN KRAJINA DO NOT ABANDON USTASHA IDEOLOGY

ISTOČNO SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 16 /SRNA/ – The President of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in the Federation of BiH /FBiH/ Đorđe Radanović told SRNA that Muslims in Krajina are showing that they have not abandoned the Ustasha ideology and that they have never accepted another faith.

Reacting to the intimidation of the few Serbs in returnee villages in the municipality of Bosanski Petrovac, Radanović said that even during the Second World War many Muslims from Cazin, Bihać, and Kladuša stood by the movement of Poglavnik Ante Pavelić. "Their people from Cazin and Bihać were ministers in the government of the NDH. Their units took people to Garavice. Specifically, nine members of my family, the Radanovićs, were taken from Vrtoče, a Serb village located between Bihać and Petrovac," Radanović said. According to him, Muslims from Bihać came to Vrtoče on August 1, 1941, with the story that they needed to work on road repairs, and then took nine Radanovićs and another 40 people from the village to Garavice and killed them. "This was done by Muslims from Bihać, together with Croats," Radanović said. With war flags of the so-called Army of BiH and shouts of "Allahu Akbar," they are once again trying to intimidate the few Serbs in FBiH. A procession with war symbols and frightening cries, with which ritual killings of Serbs by beheading were carried out, passed through Serb returnee villages in the municipality of Bosanski Petrovac where, according to the organizers, on September 14 they marked 30 years since the "liberation" of that Krajina municipality. The procession mostly consisted of youth who, with provocations, deliberately passed through Serb villages, led by a police patrol.