Your editorial of Feb. 15, ”For Croatia, help and challenge,” is again a case of too late and not enough. It did not mention the ”new” Independent State of Croatia has already failed miserably the first few challenges on its road to win respect and diplomatic recognition.
For instance, one of its first official acts was to ban showing any movies that portray World War II German soldiers in ”an unfavorable light”- an act most of the European press has reported but your paper has not.
Croatia still refuses to acknowledge the extermination of almost a million people dur-ing WWII on its territory and has in fact proceeded to destroy all remnants and reminders of the Holocaust by renaming streets and town squares named in memory of the victims of Cro-atian fascists. They refuse to reconsider such acts in spite of protests by the Simon Weisenthal Center and other Holocaust victims.
Your editorial failed to condemn the acts of vandalism committed by Croatian suppor-ters right here in Chicago against Serbian churches and attacks on Chicagoans of Serbian origin, which your paper has reported previously.
Finally, to say that Tudjman and his minions ”seem to go out of their way to alienate the . . . 600,000 Serbs” is a gross understatement. If those Serbs were not armed, they would have been dead or expelled by now, just like their relatives were 50 years ago.
