President-elect issues statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

ZAGREB, Jan 27. (Hina). Croatia's President-elect Ivo Josipovic on Tuesday evening issued a statement on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, saying that it offered an opportunity to strengthen the foundations of a world in which the tragedy of the Holocaust would never happen again.

Speaking of the day when he said the world was remembering the unimaginable crime that took the lives of millions of innocent people, Josipovic said that Croatians should remember that a part of their history contained a segment of the Nazi evil that was materialised through the ideology of the Ustasha regime.

In that context, Josipovic said that "any attempt at historical revisionism is an attempt to downplay evil and hide the truth".

"The crime that was committed against the Jewish people and other victims of the Nazi persecution in World War II is the darkest part of the modern history of humankind which must remain in the memory of every nation because in it, the tragedy of every individual is reflected, regardless of their ethnic, religious or racial background".

"Such a history must remain a permanent reminder about the need to invest maximum effort to build and preserve peace, co-existence and democracy as the most important values of human civilisation. It must be the legacy that we will leave to the future generations, along with the message that there is no alternative to the culture of interreligious and inter-ethnic dialogue and to human dignity based on rights ensured by a democratic society," the President-elect said in his statement.

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