Word: jasenovac
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Croatia may have finally ? if reluctantly ? jailed a World War II war criminal, but it?s still dragging its feet over more contemporary monsters. Croatian concentration camp commander Dinko Sakic, charged for the death of 2,000 people at Jasenovac ? described as the Auschwitz of the Balkans ? in 1944, was convicted Monday and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. "They didn?t have much choice but to put him on trial, because letting him go free would have caused an international scandal," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The Sakic sentence came in the context of repeated attempts...
Dusko Zavisic, a young Serb photographer who has escaped from Sarajevo, told me that as a boy he was taken to visit the museum at the World War II Croatian concentration camp at Jasenovac. The pictures there of murdered Serbs were so horrifying he could not eat for two days afterward. In the latest war of Croats and Serbs, the Croats destroyed the museum. It was Dusko Zavisic who took the photographs of atrocities in Vukovar last November. He said that for days he was afraid to close his eyes because the afterimages of mutilated bodies and smashed heads would...
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