The Association of Former Prison Camp Inmates in Mostar reacted harshly after HDZ leader Dragan Covic’s statement from two days ago about the construction of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) museum on the site of the former Heliodrom camp, with the message that they are victims who fight for human dignity.
“Those who call and demand that a Musem for the army convicted of war crimes and JCE cannot be built on the Heliodrom area are victims of the policies implemented and followed by Dragan Covic at that time. It is more than hypocritical for a person who exploited a camp inmate during his directorship to call others hypocrites and to teach others lessons about humanity, without looking at himself in the mirror,” the Association of Former Prison Camp Inmates Mostar stated.
Moreover, the Association added, “Those who are being accused of hypocrisy by the above-mentioned, are publicly advocating that no one should build anything on the site of the suffering of the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), regardless of which nation they come from.”
They underline that “the fact that the previous activities to change historical facts were met with silence has changed, and we will never again be silent about such attempts to indirectly deny court verdicts”.
“Also, to draw attention to the ‘slave chaser’, your victims are not making a political event, but are fighting for human dignity, which does not reside with you, because for you it is an unattainable level of humanity. Your attempt to reduce it to a political story is more than a perfidious attempt to humiliate the victims who were in that camp, of which you were also a ‘beneficiary’,” the Association of Former Prison Camp Inmates Mostar emphasized.
Moreover, they said that what they want “as human beings who have gone through horrors in the Heliodrom camp, is that after 30 years a person who does not recognize the judgments of the International Court in The Hague does not teach us lessons of humanity that he does not have”.
”Every victim is a victim and no one has the right to dispute their right, not even the hero of the policy of denying committed war crimes”, concluded the Association of former Prison Camp Inmates Mostar with the message, “Never again“.
The ban on the construction of the HVO military museum at the Heliodrom in Mostar was also the topic of the Mostar councilors at the session of the City Council yesterday, at the initiative of the SDP.
However, the Proposal for the conclusion that the City of Mostar prohibit the construction of the HVO museum at the Heliodrom in Mostar did not receive the necessary majority, after 14 councilors were in favor, 13 against, and 3 abstained, Klix.ba reports.
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