Resolution adopted on mass child killings in WWII-era Independent State of Croatia

BELGRADE - In occupied Europe during WWII, only the Ustasha Independent State of Croatia had specialised death camps for Serb, Jewish and Romani children, notes a resolution on Ustasha killings of Serb, Jewish and Romani children in death camps for children in the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.

The resolution was adopted after a historic three-day conference titled Jasenovac - The Auschwitz of the Balkans, which included testimonies by former prisoners of death camps for children.

The conference was held in the Serbian parliament building.

The resolution says the participants of the conference - surviving prisoners of death camps for children set up in Jasenovac, Jastrebarsko, Sisak and other locations in the Independent State of Croatia, as well as scientists and members of the international group GH7-Stop Revisionism - noted that, of the close to one million victims of death camps in the Independent State of Croatia, 74,000 had been Serb, Jewish and Romani children - including infants - who had been brutally slain, especially at the Jasenovac and Jastrebarsko death camps.

"We strongly support respect of fundamental human rights that is dignified and worthy of human beings, equal rights for men, women and children and nations and religions and the principle of 'unity in diversity' and respect for all victims," the resolution notes.

The resolution announced the launch of a motion to declare April 28 Day of Genocide Against Serbs (Serbicide Day) to commemorate the first Ustasha genocide committed at Gudovac near Bjelovar, Croatia, on April 28, 1941.