ZAGREB, May 14, 2020 - The public vilification and lynch threats against Sarajevo Archbishop Vinko Puljic, over a mass for the Bleiburg victims to be held in Sarajevo, suggest that the position of the Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not as it should be, Croatia's Foreign and European Affairs Minister said on Thursday.
Gordan Grlic Radman told reporters that he had expressed support to Archbishop Puljic, a man who had stayed in Sarajevo during the war and is "a shining example of coexistence, multiculturalism."
"This vilification, the lynch, in a way suggest that the position of the Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not as it should be," the minister said.
He talked to Puljic on the phone and supported the celebration of a mass in Sarajevo to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Bleiburg tragedy. The announcement of the mass, scheduled for 16 May, was met with harsh criticism in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
