Bosnic: By end of November, we're ask National Assembly to pass resolution on genocide of Serbs in NDH

The House of the National Assembly of Serbia; Photo: Leonid Andronov/Shutterstock

The leader of the Krajisnik Movement of Serbs, Mile Bosnic, said today that he hopes 10,000 signatures will be collected by the end of November in order to submit a petition to the National Assembly for adoption of a resolution on the genocide of Serbs, committed by the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).

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He also revealed that 8,000 signatures have been collected to date.

Bosnic told the daily Politika that the process started in May and that there are enough electronic signatures, but that they are not valid and will be used as support.

"And we expect to collect these 10,000 by the end of November and hand them over so that they can enter procedure of the regular session in the spring," said Bosnic.

Bosnic explained that one of the most important activities of his association is the preservation of historical memory and added that the basic thing in the historical memory of Serbs is the genocide committed against them in the NDH.

"In order to continue this struggle, we think that it is most important that Serbia, that is, the National Assembly, adopts a resolution based on the convention of the General Assembly of the United Nations. It says what genocide is, and we specify in our resolution that this was a crime committed by the NDH against Serbs. Many do not agree with that, but the Jews passed a resolution on the Holocaust, as did the Romani, which is why it is necessary for our country to pass a separate one," said Bosnic.

He stressed the necessity of condemning the genocide of the Serbs and giving it its own name.

"A name like the holocaust is needed and our proposal is to call it the annihilation or the slaughter. We want a (memorial) date to be introduced, because there is a date when the Holocaust is commemorated. Our proposal is April 28, the day when the first victims were killed in Gudovac, near Bjelovar," said Bosnic.

He added that the (UN) convention that states what genocide is, which is absolutely provable in the case of the NDH, as well as that as the discussion about the term "genocide" started in the 20th century, "the model" was precisely the killing of the Serbs in the NDH.

Bosnic added that the public is not sufficiently familiar with the scale of the crimes committed in the NDH.

"It's unbelievable how many things our people do not know. It was a monstrous system. In my research, I discovered there were more than 200 methods of torture and killing in the NDH. In Jasenovac (death camp), as confirmed by historian and world-renowned Holocaust expert Gideon Greif, 57 were used, and I came up with 63. There is evidence for each and it is covered by serious archival documents," concluded Bosnic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)