Prof Dr Srboljub Zivanovic,
The Chairman
Тhe official statement of the International Commission for the truth on Jasenovac

In a packed hall of Bishop Nicholas in London , the Chairman of the
International Commission for the Truth on Jasenovac, prof dr Srboljub
Zivanovic has officially opened the gallery exhibition dedicated to the
victims of the Croatian camps for the extermination of Serbs , Jews and Roma
in Jasenovac and Donja Gradina ; book launch of Dragana Mijatovic Tomasevic
titled " Hans Ivan Merc , Roman Catholic " church " and true lies " , as
well as the launch of charitable organization Jasenovac and Holocaust
Memorial Foundation, a UK registered charity , which aims to collect funds
for the erection of a memorial centre in Donja Gradina.

The "Anatomy of Oblivion" exhibition carefully prepared by the National and
University Library of the Republika Srpska in remembrance of 70 years since
the end of World War II , when the Ustasha guards of Croatian camp at
Jasenovac withdrew from the camp. A week later, the camp was entered by the
Yugoslavian military only to find the camp abandoned and demolished.

The book written by Dragana Mijatovic Tomasevic " Hans Ivan Merc , Roman
Catholic " church " and true lies " is trying to shed a light on the life
and work of Ivan Hans Merc , who was on the personal invitation of the Pope
Pius XI called to establish a notorious Catholic Action movement in Balkans.
According to the Croatian Ustasha official press, Hans Ivan Merc was the
spiritual leader of the Croatian Ustasha movement and principal educator
Roman Catholic priests and future slaughterers of Serbs, Jews and Roma.

Merc has fully implemented the doctrine of the Catholic Actions throughout
the organization "Eagles" which he founded. Eagles, renamed in 1929 as the
"Crusaders", have during World War II actively assisted Ustasha regime in
the extermination of Serbs, Jews and Roma.
The spiritual aspect of the Ustasha ideology was based on the "Eagles" /
"Crusaders" ideology of Ivan Hans Merc . Life, work and teachings of Ivan
Hans Merc are described in detail for the first time in the book by Dragana
Tomasevic Mijatovic for Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrian public.

Jasenovac and Holocaust Memorial Foundation founded by the International
Commission for Jasenovac is established in the UK and it is raising funds
for the erection of the memorial centre in Donja Gradina. The objectives of
the JHMF Charity is to advance the education of the general public on
genocide and Holocaust in Independent State of Croatia committed by Croatian
Ustasha on Serbs , Jews and Roma population during WW2. It also promotes
religious, ethnical and racial reconciliation amongst different groups
living in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia. JHMF will also support those
students researching the field by giving out scholarships.

The International Commission for the Truth on Jasenovac ( in which there
were no representatives from the territory of the former Yugoslavia )
chaired by the American professor Bernard Klein in the meeting in New York
collected and published over 1,400 names of Roman Catholic priests and nuns
who were personally slaughtering, torturing and murdering Serbs, Jews and
Rome , and among the victims were over 700,000 Serbs , 23,000 Jews and
80,000 Roma .
Croatia is the only country in the world that had extermination camp for the
children.
Amongst the victims of Jasenovac system of concentration camps were 110,000 children less than 14 years of age.