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The Revisionist Draft Law on the Staro Sajmište Concentration Camp to Be Withdrawn

Belgrade, February 7, 2017

 

 

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia welcomes the legislation on turning the once Staro sajmište concentration camp – established in the WWII with a view to eliminate the local Jewish community – into a memorial in Belgrade. However, the draft law on the memorial Serbia’s government has put forward to the parliament contradicts historical facts, minimizes the massive destruction of the Jewish community in the WWII and is in the function of the regime’s short-term policies.

The governmental draft insists on the fact that the said concentration camp was in the territory of the then Independent State of Croatia – which is formally true – but neglects the fact that the occupation authorities had run it till 1944. Besides, according to it, Jews were among the victims, although they had been practically the only and primary prisoners till May 1992. The governmental draft avoids mentioning the name and the role of Nazi “collaborators and aids” – and the latter, in Serbia, was the cabinet of Milan Nedić whose police had been capturing Jews in the first place and then handing them over to Germans. It also says nothing about anti-Jewish and racist decrees the Nedić cabinet has passed to serve Holocaust.

The draft law perfectly mirrors the decades-long revisionism of the WWII in Serbia.

The Helsinki Committee demands immediate withdrawal of the draft law as such from parliamentary procedure; the draft should undergo all the amendments necessary so as to incorporate indisputable historical facts.

 

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