Croatia has declared three senior Montenegrin government officials persona non grata after they led a declaration in Montenegro’s parliament stating that genocide was committed in a World War II concentration camp operated by a pro-Nazi Croatian regime at the time.
In this Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 photo, Montenegro parliament speaker Andrija Mandic, left, and lawmaker Milan Knezevic attend a press conference in Podgorica, Montenegro . ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia on Thursday declared three senior Montenegrin government officials persona non grata after they led a declaration in Montenegro ’s parliament stating that genocide was committed in a World War II concentration camp operated by a pro-Nazi Croatia n regime at the time.
Montenegro’s parliament recently passed a declaration on “genocide” in the Jasenovac prison camp in Croatia, where tens of thousands of ethnic Serbs, Jews and anti-Nazi Croats perished during the war. Croatia was run by a pro-Nazi puppet regime during WWII. After the war, Croatia became part of a Communist-run Yugoslavia together with several other Balkan nations, including Montenegro. Yugoslavia broke up in a war in the 1990s.
The three pro-Serb and pro-Russian Montenegrin officials then demanded that the country’s parliament also pass a declaration condemning the Jasenovac massacre.
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