In an interview that aired in Croatia on 19 June 2008, Ašner acknowledged that he was involved in deportations, but maintained that those who were deported were taken not to death camps, as is generally believed, but to their homelands instead.
I en intervju, som sändes i Kroatien den 19 juni 2008, sade Ašner att han var inblandad i deportationerna, men vidhöll att de som deporterades inte fördes till dödsläger, som i allmänhet tros, utan till sina hemländer istället.