29.09.2020.
Minister Vulin: The sincerity of reconciliation that Plenković is talking about is measured by punishments, and there are no punishments for criminals from Varivode and Operation “Storm”
"In Varivode, Plenković did not show sympathy. If he had, he would have said the names of murderers and the sentences they were given. In Varivode, Plenković once again protected the criminals by presenting the crime against Serbs as an individual act, and not as a policy of genocide that expelled half a million Serbs born in Croatia from Croatia. In Varivode, at the graves of the killed elderly Serbs, Plenković repeated that Serbs born in Croatia were aggressors against Croatia. Plenković's statement that Serbs must admit that they rebelled against the legally elected government had also been said in 1941, and then, after he had seceded from Yugoslavia without asking Serbs, the leader of the Ustasha, Pavelić, ruled Croatia, and Serbs were killed and expelled. The differences between 1991 and 1941 lie only in the calendar, and the causes and reasons for the beginning of the civil war in Croatia were the same, the Ustasha", said the Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin, commenting on Andrej Plenković's statement at the commemoration in Varivode.
"It is a pity that the Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia, Boris Milošević, forgot to say something in defence of his people and to demand accountability for crimes without justifying Croatia by the passage of time, but he was obedient and quiet just like he had been at the celebration of the anniversary of Operation Storm and he was not able to say such a thing. One does not come to the graves of the poor Serbian victims to light a candle in the colours of the Croatian flag, but with repentance, confession of crimes and with the names and valid decades-long sentences for Ustasha criminals. The sincerity of reconciliation that Plenković is talking about is measured by punishments. And there are no punishments for criminals from Varivode and Operation Storm," said Minister Vulin.
