SERB “GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE” HOPES TURKEY CAN HELP EXPOSE CROATIAN “GENOCIDE”
SRNA news agency, Serbia
Oct 4 2005
Belgrade, 4 October: The Republic of Serb Krajina [RSK, wartime
Croatian Serb self-proclaimed statelet] government-in-exile hopes the
Turkish government will help it shed light on the Croatian genocide
against Serbs during World War II and the 1990-95 secessionist war
in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and in war damage compensation
for Serb people.
In a letter to the Turkish embassy in Belgrade, the RSK
government-in-exile expressed hope that the Turkish government during
its EU membership negotiations would make use of facts about the
Croatian genocide against Serbs “which are a heavy burden for other
European states”.
The letter points out that all European states are obliged to take
a position on crimes committed in Europe and only then would they
have a right to participate in investigations of such occurrences in
other continents.
“It is strange that they are asking for proof of Turkish crimes against
Armenians in 1915, while failing to mention Croatian crimes of genocide
about which there are documents, academic debates, published books
by witnesses and the Croatian death camp ‘Jasenovac’ section in the
Holocaust museum in New York,” the letter says.
The letter adds that by refusing to shed light on Croatian genocide
crimes against Serbs, the EU member states are ignoring the UN charter
on the rights of man and other international law documents, according
to which they are obligated to enable the punishment of criminals.