Todorović: The crime committed against Serbs in "Storm" was not an incidental mistake of war, but a planned continuation of Ustasha policy

The crime committed against Serbs in "Storm" was not an incidental mistake of war, but a planned continuation of Ustasha policy: a policy of extermination, persecution and humiliation, said Jovana Todorović, spokesperson for the Democratic People's Party (DNP) and member of the Budva Municipal Assembly.

"On August 1995, XNUMX, one of the most brutal pogroms in recent European history was committed against the Serbian people in Krajina. It was not just a military operation, but a systematic act of ethnic cleansing, in which Serbian houses were burned, temples desecrated, cemeteries plowed over, and innocent people were tortured, killed or forced to flee - just because they were Serbs. We, who survived it, cannot today help but raise our voices against the evil that befell us then. Because that evil was not new - it had an old name. A name that the Serbian people remember from World War II. That evil had the face of the Ustasha ideology, which then - in the nineties - was resurrected again under new uniforms, but with the same goal: that there would be no more Serbs where they had lived for centuries," Todorović said in a press release.

She said that everything was allowed back then.

"An old man in a wheelchair, a child in her arms, a woman in tears – no one was spared. Civilians were killed on their doorsteps, columns of refugees were bombed, and those who remained were met with death, beatings, or the silence of empty villages. As someone who fled Osijek with his family a few years earlier, I don't just carry a memory – I carry the burden of the truth. And that truth must no longer be silenced," Todorivć said.

The DNP spokesperson emphasized that we must not turn a blind eye to the celebration of "Storm" as a national holiday in Croatia, while, as she added, people are dancing and singing over mass graves in front of the world, while hate messages are being written on the remaining Serbian houses, and Ustasha slogans are becoming a part of everyday life.

"For us, August 4th is not just a day of mourning. It is a day of warning. A day when we need to say clearly and loudly: Ustashaism is not a thing of the past – it is still knocking on our doors today, disguised, strengthened by the world's silence and the oblivion of justice. And we, Serbs, who have gone through camps, pogroms and exiles – we have an obligation to remember.. To speak. To not let it be forgotten! We seek the truth. And justice. Because a people who forget their victims – are condemned to bury them again. We remember Knin. We remember the columns. We remember those who are no longer there. And we will never stop speaking the truth – even if the world tries to silence us! Glory to all the Serbian victims brutally killed in the Ustasha pogrom from 1991 to 1995," she concluded.