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Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Serbia is a Model and Beacon of Democracy Compared to Croatia

It is not the Republic of Serbia that forbade anyone from Croatia to visit Kragujevac, Kraljevo or Jajinci, where the Nazis killed people during the Second World War, just because they are Serbs, Jews or Roma, it is Croatia that forbade the President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic to visit the largest execution site of the Serbian people and the largest Serbian underground city, in the place where the Jasenovac Ustasha camp system was located. That ban is still in force today.

It is in Croatia, and not in Serbia, that it is possible for a man to be arrested and sentenced to 15 days in prison, just because of the choice of music he listened to in his own car. This happened to the citizen of Serbia, lawyer Nemanja Beric.

That Croatia is the same country that publicly banned the entry of the representatives of the state of Montenegro, i.e. the direct representatives of the people, members of parliament, simply because they did not like their attitude about your Nazi past.

The President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, publicly called for an end to the practice of any detention due to political statements or views of foreign citizens at the borders of the Republic of Serbia, although this is utterly incomparable to the practice of arresting and imposing prison sentences on people because of the music they listen to, the complete ban on entry due to positions and opinions, or bans without any explanation, which is how Croatian "democracy" works. It is another example in a series of examples that shows a clear difference between you and us.

We are not the same.

The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia

Ana Brnabic