Uz polemiku o "indiferenciji Crkve prema jasenovaekim zrtvama" (sitan doprinos velikoj temi). (Croatian)

Concerning the debate on the "indifference of the Church toward the Jasenovac victims" (a modest contribution to a significant topic). (English)

This article is a response to an open letter written by the Archbishop Slavko Goldstein of September 29, 2009, in which he stated that the Catholic Church has shown indifference toward the Jasenovac victims and has been unwilling to reconsider its attitudes toward its own traumatic past. While the article condemns the crimes against the victims of Jasenovac, it also dismisses the number of 700,000 Serbian victims, as maintained by the official SFRY and represented in textbooks and encyclopedias, as exaggerated at best or even as a conscious lie maintained by Serbian historians and Belgrade officials. Tudjman’s estimate of several tens of thousands is more likely correct. This perpetuated lie about victims is the reason, in the author's opinion, why the highest Croatian clergy has not visited Jasenovac. The author ends by asking the question, "which is worse: a crime itself or the exaggeration of the crime that instigates revenge?" [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

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