Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, after making controversial statements about the convicted genocide in Srebrenica on Wednesday, trying to obviously relativize it by comparing it to the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda, continued yesterdayin an even more scandalous tone.
At yesterday‘s press conference, when asked to clarify hisstatements from Wednesday about the genocide in Srebrenica, where he bid on the numbers of those killed and the legal classification, he explained that he spoke with Covic the other day, who “briefed him“.
“Some people say all the time that Croatia was the aggressor and that Tudjman and Susak were the same as Karadzic and Mladic. I said that Srebrenica is not the same as the Holocaust and Jasenovac. It is a serious crime with elements of genocide, which was also said by the court. However, no court can be a scripture,” Milanovic emphasized.
He added that “some human or inhuman” were unsatisfied with it.
“5 thousand, 8 thousand, or 80.000 people is not the same. It is not the same whether it happens in gas chambers or with machetes. I don’t understand how could such a statement of mine could harm anyone. There is nothing wrong or malicious in what I said, on the contrary, it was in good faith,“ the Croatian president added.
In the end, he concluded that he was not the mentor of Dragan Covic, who is the president of the largest party of the Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
To recall, the other day, while speaking about the political situation in BiH, Milanovic made several deeply controversial claims, and uncalled-for, he entered the gradation of genocides committed in history to some extent.
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Source: Klix.ba
