Značaj Ivana Šimonovića za konkurentnost hrvatskog gospodarstva

U ponedjeljak, 9 rujna u hotelu Regent Esplanade održan je u organizaciji britansko-hrvatske poslovne mreže okrugli stol o konkurentnosti u Hrvatskoj.

Uvodnu riječ, koju je napisao britanski veleposlanik u Hrvatskoj David Blunt, pročitala je Helen Tanner, iz gospodarskog odjela Veleposlanstva, jer je veleposlanik slomljen gripom, a zahvaljujući ljubaznosti veleposlanstva portal www.banka.hr taj je govor prenio u cijelosti.

Nakon pročitanog govora veleposlanika Blunta o hrvatskoj konkurentnosti diskutirali su predsjednik RH Stjepan Mesić, te “uobičajeni sumnjivci” – Damir Kuštrak, predsjednik HUP-a, Ljubo Jurčić, predsjednik Društva ekonomista i Goran Radman, dekan Veleučilišta Vern.

Predsjednik Mesić iznio je teze o situaciji u Hrvatskoj koje će, kako je rekao, cjelovitije obraditi na skorašnjem godišnjem skupu ekonomista u Opatiji. Mediji su već prenijeli da je kritizirao politiku Hrvatske narodne banke koja je, prema njegovom sudu, zapostavila brigu za vanjsku likvidnost Hrvatske.

Goran Radman, govorio je o važnosti obrazovanja, Ljubo Jurčić o proizvodnji proizvoda s višom dodanom vrijednošću, a Damir Kuštrak o širenju tržišta.

Uobičajeni sumnjivci iznijeli su dakle već davno poznate ideje. Gle čuda, dekan Verna rekao je da je obrazovanje važno, predsjednik Društva ekonomista zapazio je da složeniji proizvodi donose veću zaradu, a član uprave Agrokora zadužen za vanjska tržišta govorio je o pristupu tržištima. Ni fokus predsjednika Mesića na Narodnu banku nije ništa novo.

Nema nikakve dvojbe da tečaj, obrazovanje, složenost proizvoda i pristup tržištima utječu na konkurentnost. Ipak, govornici kao da uopće nisu govorili o hrvatskoj konkurentnosti.

Prije svega, nijedan od njih ni jednom se jedinom riječi, ni u aluziji (koliko sam zapazio) nije osvrnuo na teze veleposlanika Blunta.

Ne tvrdim da je to neki veliki i važan govor koji otvara nove vidike. Ipak, veleposlanik Blunt na hrvatsku je konkurentost gledao očima izvan ekonomske politike, što je i sam naglasio. Istaknuo je bitku za pravnu državu i u tom kontekstu naglasio imenom jednu jedinu osobu – ministra Šimonovića.

Analitičari bi rekli da je to znakovito, i vjerojatno jest znakovito, ali bi samo vrlo slobodna interpretacija veleposlanikova govora mogla dati konkretan sadržaj toj znakovitosti. No veleposlanik Blunt vjerojatno zna zašto je istaknuo baš to ime.

Možda to zna i ministar Šimonović i još poneko tko treba znati, no sudionici okruglog stola se ni na taj aspekt, ni na bilo koji drugi aspekt uvodnog govora nisu ni osvrnuli.

Možda je i to znakovito, a možda i nije. Izgledalo je kao da su na okrugli stol svi došli sa svojim unaprijed definiranim idejama.

Poduzetnika koji je sjedio do mene pitao sam kome oni to govore. Rekao je da ne zna, da to sluša već desetljećima, da to čuje na televiziji u Otvorenom, da i sam sa svojim kolegama o tome razgovara, vjerojatno čak i konkretnije. Novinari su poslije okruglog stola predsjednika Mesića pitali o – Podravki, ili nečem sličnom.

Čini se da u toj komunikaciji nešto nije u redu. U ukupnoj hrvatskoj društvenoj komunikaciji.

Okrugli stol organizirala je Britansko-hrvatska poslovna mreža, a navodno su – rekli su predstavnici organizatora – u publici stvarno sjedili neki britanski poduzetnici. U govoru veleposlanika Blunta oni su i spomenuti. Nisam međutim uspio zapaziti da im se ijedan od hrvatskih predstavnika obratio čak i posredno. Čak su se i iz publike javljali Hrvati i postavljali pitanja na koja odgovor ne treba biti domišljat.

Već je spomenuto kome su upućene poruke predsjednika Mesića. Čini mi se da se Goran Radman upustio u diskusiju o sektorima i strategiji, ali netko vještiji od mene i upućeniji u hrvatski javni život svakako bi uspješnije identificirao kome su svoje poruke upućivali ostali uobičajeni sumnjivci.

Nadam se svakako da su organizatori ispunili svoj cilj – članovima su omogućili da razmjene posjetnice s drugima, potencijalno važnim ljudima, iako mi se čini da se tamo svi već znaju.

I razmjena posjetnica također može pomoći podizanju hrvatske konkurentnosti. Ne želim ovaj prikaz okruglog stola završiti patetično, no čini mi se da bi uz već pripremljene ideje bilo zgodno kad bi govornici barem slušali jedni druge. Za početak.

Možda bi onda svima bilo jasnije zašto je Ivan Šimonović važan za konkurentnost hrvatskog gospodarstva.

Mesić: Ako želite mačku sjeći rep, odsijecite ga odjednom

Mesić: Ne sijecite mačku rep malo pomalo nego odjednom

Zgodna ekonomska metafora predsjednika Mesića (ne znam koliko je poželjno da bude slikovita) koja se proširila na prve stranice svih portala. Ali baš nije originalna.

Milton Friedman je originator tog famoznog repa. Riječ je bila o psu, ne o mački. Poruka je išla otprilike ovako. Ako režete rep psu u komadima, dio po dio, ubiti će te psa. Ako ga odrežete odjednom, boljeti će, ali će preživiti. Poruka je to bila Čileu u vezi inflacije. Ali i u drugim komentarima kasnije je koristio psa i njegov rep. Vidi njegove komentare ovdje primjerice, u vezi Ludwiga Erharda koji je u poslijeratnoj Njemačkoj ukinuo administrativnu kontrolu cijena u Nedjelju. Najavio je dan prije. Saveznički administratori su bili odsutni na neradnu nedjelju i mjera je ostala.

I za proračun vrijedi – ili reži i konsolidiraj ili daj netkom drugome tko to može i zna. Sila rebalansa i prolongiranje samo nas više košta i boli kasnije.

Zanimljivije je da li Mesić čitao MF ili mu je netko šapnuo u uho metaforu o psu, pa je pas postao mačka? Da li metafora ima nekog drugog originatora?

July 1, 2009

Associated Press via the Wall Street Journal

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Stipica Stipe Stipija Stipek Mesić je na hrvaškem radiu danes spet izrekel nekaj krepkih, poroča Dnevnik.

Na tole pametovanje odgovarjamo na kratko v treh točkah:

1. Najprej odgovor na celotni intervju: sicer ne ustreza dejstvom (ker so takrat res pozivali človeka, naj gre, od koder je prišel), ampak bomo ponovili Mladinin izrek iz 80.ih (Mamula go home): MESIĆ GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (dosti bolje kot Mesiću jebi se, Mesić fuck off, Mesić go fuck yourself itd, se vam ne zdi?)

2. Na naslednjo modrost (citiramo Dnevnik):

“Kot je pojasnil, sega teritorialno morje neke države 12 navtičnih milj od obale, če bi Slovenija želela imeti izhod na odprto morje, pa bi potrebovala 14 navtičnih milj. “To pa pomeni, da je treba spreminjati mednarodno konvencijo o pomorskem pravu. Če bo Slovenija zahtevala od ZN spremembe konvencije in če bo ZN to sprejel, potem pa bo to tudi možno,” je še dejal hrvaški predsednik.”

odgovarjamo: OK, BOMO DALI V ZDRUŽENIH NARODIH PREDLOG ZA SPREMEMBO KONVENCIJE IZ 12 NA 14 MILJ!!! VERJETNO BO POSTOPEK NE GLEDE NA TO, ALI BO SPREMEMBA POTRJENA ALI NE, TEKEL NEKAJ LET (MORDA PET (5), MORDA DESET (10)?? VMES PA – DRAGI MESIĆ – BOMO ŠE NAPREJ VZTRAJALI NA BLOKADI!!!!  Saj ste hoteli izzvati tak odgovor s to svojo globokoumno vzvišeno vasezaverovano mi-smo-gospodje-vi-pa-hlapci-izžarevajočo izjavo, nevredno predsednika?

Zlopamtilovci smo sicer precej miroljubna bitja, še posebej pa se do drugih obnašamo tako, kot se oni do nas. Če pa nam nekdo stopi na žulj in se potem, ko to stori, ne opraviči, ampak še z večjim veseljem skače po tem žulju… potem pa zanj ne poznamo milosti. Zato gospod Mesić, se vidimo na razpravah v OZN, v redu? Verjetno se komisija za spremembe konvencij sestaja 1x, 2x na leto? Bo potrebnih 10, 20 sestankov in konzultacij? Pa lep pozdrav iz EU!

3. Še veliko pametnega je imel za povedati prevzvišeni g. Mesić: “Hrvaški predsednik sicer ne pričakuje, da bo letos manj slovenskih turistov na Hrvaškem, saj “so Slovenci praktični ljudje, in bodo šli na dopust tja, kje se bodo dobro počutili”.” JA GOSPOD MESIĆ, ŠE PAR TAKIH IZJAV, PA BOSTE V GOSTEH IMELI VEČ SRBOV KOT SLOVENCEV. PA SE BOSTE LAHKO MIRNO KLALI NAPREJ, NE DA BI VAS KDO PRI TEM OVIRAL. Saj prav razumemo, da to hočete? Slovenci imamo sicer radi jadransko obalo in zanjo skrbimo bolje kot vi sami! Če pa nam boste kvarili dopust in nas zasmehovali, pa lahko gremo tudi drugam. Bomo videli, kdo bo imel ob tem daljši nos in bo bolj nastradal!

Opomba: igra z negativno vsoto nam sicer ni pri srcu. Dosti raje bi iskali win-win rešitve. Toda ne bomo se pustili zasmehovati in zaničevati, podučevati in ustrahovati od takšnih nespoštljivih ljudi, kot so to hrvaški politiki (z redkimi izjemami).

Ovaj post radi arhiviranja. Nisam moga odoljeti a da ne istaknem dva citata, iz prošlog tjedna, kroz kratki post i tako ih sačuvam na blogu.

Prvi je (nadam se!) već svima do sada poznat komentar Rohatinskog nakon svog posljednjeg govora, na konferenciji Tržišta novca. Nije onaj komedijozan komentar o populistima. Ovaj oštrije bocka.

“Političari i njihovi ekonomski savjetnici koji postavljaju pitanje zašto ne depreciramo tečaj i što radi HNB pokazuju duboko nerazumijevanje problema.”

Čak ne bi rekao da je duboko nerazumjevanje da ti savjetnici ne znaju što govore. Nisu tupi i neobrazovani, ali jesu blesavi ili se barem prave takvima. Kada je ijedan od tih koji zagovaraju depricijaciju ili pak devalvaciju govorio o obje strane posljedica – i dobrim i lošim? Cost i benefit? Bilo urednici raznih poslovnih izdanja ili ekonomski analitičari, svi bi isticali blagodati slabe kune za izvoz, za poduzetnike-izvoznike, bez čak propitkivanja da li bi došlo do toga. Nije bilo govora o posljedicama na inflaciju, zaduženju građana u posjeduju zajmova sa vlautnom klauzulom pa čak ni poskupljenju uvoza.. Eh…

Drugi citati je vjerojatno manje poznat. Analitičar Ivan Rimac iz članka Nade Starijaš u business.hr:

“baš i nema “velike simpatije” za Mesićeve aktualne ekonomske poteze, poput sazivanja ekonomskih savjetovanja i zahtjeva za devalvacijom kune jer to “podsjeća na vrijeme socijalizma, kada se pokušavalo okrenuti kotač ekonomije koja nije stajala na zdravim nogama”

Dobro, Mesić ne može tu ništa u biti napraviti, ali time veće pitanje čemu ovakva zadiranja u monetarne sfere, kao četvrte vlasti u zemlji? Eh da, dobri stari socijalizam koji vlada među mentalitetom političke elite ovim prostorima, u jednom širem smislu stalnog političkog populističkog uplitanja u ekonomske sfere gdje im nije mjesto sa arbitralnim riješenjima i gdje političari nisu potrebni za kreiranje ekonomske politike, te u maniri socijalizma, posezanjem za krivim potezima u krivo vrijeme. Sve “kvalitete” socijalističkog upravljanja su prisutne – od ekonomskog planiranja do centraliziranog menađmenta i unificiranog djelovanja privatnog sektora sa političkom palicom. Kad smo već kod citata, možda ovaj citat bolje dočarava što mislim.

“Economic policy, economic management, and economic planning, no matter how varied in scope and overlapping in practice, are substantially one and the same thing, in capitalist and socialist countries alike: they are acts of economic control. They presuppose the formulation of governmental objectives and the choice of policy instruments, taking account of economic, technological, social, and political constraints. In the West, the national budget represents the main framework of governmental economic policy. No unifying or coordinating plan integrates the multiple activities of the government and of the private sector. In the East, the basic framework of economic policy is the national plan. The plan is supposed to integrate the objectives and instruments for the economy as a whole and for each of its sectors and branches, and to chart all their activities in the short, medium, and long run.”

Iz recenzije knjige Socialist Economic Policy, by Bela Csikosnagy, objavljene u Journal of Economic Literature. Godina – 1975.

Da li smo mi još na Istoku? Sudeći po ovim Predsjednikovim skupovima i zalaganjima, jesmo. Ako se ekonomija želi usmjeriti, uspraviti i unaprijediti ima dovoljno materijala za reformirati i ispraviti upravo ono iz starog socijalističkog, redistributativnog sistema koje predstavlja prepreke sada i veće godinama, umjesto djelomičnih nadogradnji na taj sistem, traženjem velikih planova ili prikrivanje stvarnih problema nekakvim mjerama poput devalvacije. Primjerice, politika i subvenciranje brodogradnje se nije sistematski mjenjala desetljećima, isto ako ne i gore u zdravstvu. Obje su u socijalnoj funkciji, ne razvojnoj. Obje su funkcije proračunskih rashoda. Upravo ono što se na zapadu koristi kao glavni okvir za ekonomsku politiku, u Hrvatskoj se korisiti za socijalnu politiku, pa se traže neke druge politike, poput tečajne, kako bi se pokušalo nešto ipak promjeniti u socijalnoj ekonomiji, tj. ekonomiji koja “ne stoji na zdravim nogama.”

by Felix Quigley

Israpundit is a very important site for the Jewish people especially now that there has to be organized a great discussion on just how Israel can face up to its enemies.

The news which has emerged from a source within the talks going on between the Israeli ruling class of Livni and Olmert, with the Palestinian Arab fascists presided over by the US Imperialists of Bush, led in the talks by Rice, shows the enormous dangers which Israel and the lives of all Jews are in. This is why we on 4international are very critical of some of the discussions that are taking place there. The most recent issue is over the issue of apostasy and the general position of religion in the Jewish strugggle. Nobody really likes tackling this but it has to be tackled head on if we are to have the discussion necessary for the saving of Israel from its enemies.

Everything now revolves around the struggle which must end in the removing - quite urgently - of the Olmert regime from power in Israel and its replacement by a Jewish Government, which will stop these talks in their tracks, and will assert the independence of Israel against US Imperialism.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/report-shows-great-danger-to-israelbut-israpundit-betrays/#more-231

The cadre of 4international are very familiar with the political position of Israpundit because we have all written on Israpundit. So we are following with great dismay that Israpundit is now carrying out a policy of betrayal of the Jews. They certainly do not mean to, but that is the objective result of their political line.

While American Imperialism, that is the whole system and apparatus of the Government of American Imperialism, is intent on the destruction of Israel as an independent entity through the creation of a Fascist Palestinian state next door, Israpundit is lining up with McCain in the American election. All of these candidates, as we on 4international continually point out, represent the system of American Imperialism, all represent the interests of American Imperialism, and Jews have got not ONE friend within American Imperialism.

Israel and Jews have got very many friends among the American people but that is a different perspective which we shall return to.

As we have shown on our articles here, writers on Israpundit, such as Sultan Knish, are arguing the piece on behalf of the reactionary and Serb persecutor John McCain, buddy of Joseph Lieberman who in turn was and is a buddy of the Islamofascists around Izetbegovic in Bosnia and the Fascist gangsters of Thaci/Haradinaj in Kosovo.

An indication of this great betrayal of the Jewish people by Israpundit and its editor Ted Belman is that Israpundit has still, a month later, refused to come out and oppose the Canadian recognition of this Islamofascist excrescence mis-named “Kosova”, even though many writers from Serbia, the US and Australia have written extensively on Israpundit on this, for the edification and education of Ted Belman and Israpundit readers.

In the case of “new boy” to Israpundit - Sultan Knish – he has attacked Trotsky and has emerged as an anti-communist on Israpundit, telling major lies about Trotsky, sullying the name and historical record of Trotsky towards the Jews. Refusing to discuss these lies and their implication on the basis that we on 4international as Trotskyists have got “blood of Jews” on our hands. There could hardly be a greater calumny than that.

Bill Levinson is a clever old fox and he rarely enters debate on such issues. But to put it in a nut shell…Levinson is really representative of Bush on Israpundit. He is gearing to throw the full weight of Israpundit behind McCain.

Meanwhile another character called Yamit82 has emerged on Israpundit and as Belman sits still and does nothing, this person has actually called for the killing of “apostate” Jews on the pages of Israpundit.

This happened on the topic called “Obama is in bed with the Iraq Study Group”.

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=679#comments

It is an important topic introduced by Belman, the Iraq Study Group being none other than the collaboration of the notorious Israel hating duo Hamilton and Baker, the latter being the US politician who issued the infamous words “Fuck the Jews anyway”. Actually I am not sure about the “anyway”, but the first 3 words are his and are quite enough.

This is what happened on Israpundit concerning the Yamit82 call for the killing/murder of Jews who do not quite reach the Yamit82 level of communion with God.

First of all I better explain there is a character commenting on Israpundit called H Peskin  who tends to follow the Olmert line, at least to some extent, in that he seeks a Palestinian State. We on 4international would naturally be entirely opposed to that political line and seek to oppose the setting up of a Palestine state, mainly through the forcing of the Olmert regime from power, and a new Government elected which will break off the Bush sponsored talks which go on at present.

This exchange took place:

Peskin:

I don’t need to read the Koran to learn about commandments that counsel bloody violence and aggressive acts against the enemy. I can open up almost any page in the old testament and read almost the same. What makes us more compassionate people is the fact that we are by and large less observant and take this whole business not too seriously.I can assure you however we have our nut cases too. They are also not prepared to compromise.

Ted Belman:

(Repeats the above and answers)

Utter ignorance and nonsense.It is not a matter of comparing written texts that are very old. Rather it is a matter of how each religion dealt with the violent passages. In Judaism, they have been relegated to the past having to do with a specific time and place. They are no longer applicable either practically or religiously. The same can’t be said for Islam.

To equate compassion with loss of religiosity is indefensible, arrogant and self serving.

I am still puzzled by how Ted saw his answer in relation to Peskin, he appeared to be more agreeing with Peskin, and coming into opposition with the line of Yamit82, who maintains that these old texts really ARE the ticket.

The problem with the above answer by Belman for Yamit82 is that in a real way it tended to side with Peskin and against  Yamit82. This may have had the effect of enraging Yamit82. His sponsor on Israpundit - Ted Belman - has shown that he is not on his wavelength at all. (I am only speculating about this.)

But there is no speculation possible about what next followed because it all came out of the mouth of a (possibly enraged) Yamit82. It betrays a method of thinking of Yamit 82 that is of real concern. I will try to explain what then happened.

In comment #17 Yamit says this:

Most Jews in Israel would agree with my position here if they had a leadership that would seek to implement them. The so called left is so discredited here that all that is needed is leadership to put Israel on the right course. Secular Israel is a dieing Relic like communism, socialism and all the other false ideologies and Gods that the Jews always seem to gravitate to.

In the end all of those transitory beliefs get replaced with other transitory beliefs while Judaism, real Torah based Judaism is the only Island of consistency that has been unmovable for the last 2 thousand years.

There is no other reason for Jews to be in Israel except for Torah belief and belief in God. There is no other purpose to have a Jewish State except Jewish redemption. I see no reason for Jews living in a Jewish state not to have her own Jewish law and culture. That means the application of Torah law to the extent possible rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting the Sanhedrin. Now in my book you are the extremist and the nut case and I just a proud ex American, Jew living his dream in the Land of Israel.

And hard on its heels (for the sake of continuity I will skip the Yamit82 attack on ourselves as revolutionary socialists in the above) in comment #18 Yamit82 says this, TO PESKIN, whom of course is Jewish:

You can’t debate a believing Christian fundamentalist who will not accept Rabbinical or Talmudic arguments unless you quote his and our scripture to prove your point. You are similar and since you seem to be an apostate self hating Jew and anti Zionist no argument not based on sources that you hold Holy will move you off your position thats Ok you are not important but your arguments do stimulate debate with others and thats good. I just wish you could present your positions with more than inane sophistry though.

The relevant part of the reply by Peskin to this characterisation of him as an “apostate” Jew is this:

For crossing this forbidden line, I am being found guilty of the crime of apostasy which is serious indeed.

 (Peskin then reaches for Wikipedia)
For a wikipedia definition of Apostasy see below:

Many religious groups and even some states punish apostates. Apostates may be shunned by the members of their former religious group[1] or worse. This may be the official policy of the religious group or may happen spontaneously, due in some sense to psycho-social factors as well. Historically as well as currently, the offense can be punishable by death. The Catholic Church may in certain circumstances respond to apostasy by excommunicating the apostate, while the traditional holy writings of both Judaism (Deuteronomy 13:6-10) and Islam (al-Bukhari, Diyat, bab 6) demand the death penalty for apostates.

So with his head literally on the chopping block - if Wikipedia is to be believed (and it often should not) Peskin has thrown the issue back to Yamit82 whom had seriously brought up the charge of Peskin being an apostate Jew. This was Yamit82’s reply:

Peskin I have no problem with the truth show me the truth not opinion.Deuteronomy 13:6-10) and Islam (al-Bukhari, Diyat, bab 6) demand the death penalty for apostates. True if you were living in a jewish state governed by Torah Law and a Jewish court that had the authority and power to convict and sentence. Since most Jews today fall into the apostate category I doubt whether this law could be applied. I for one would not be opposed to it in certain circumstances.Lol Good for you now you are making arguments backed up by primary sources. keep it up and we can have serious debate. You jumped on a word I used and ignored your primary positions. Changing the subject is a good ploy though but it won’t work here. We don’t have hit squads yet ready to eliminate all Jewish Apostates, so its not a relevant point of argument. I could have used a number of alternative terms to describe you all pretty harsh, and I believe all true!

The key sentence above is, of course, “I for one would not be opposed to it in certain circumstances”. And I think that Yamit82 is starting to bluster a little. I think Peskin was aware that it was the future he was talking about and the kind of Israel that friend Yamit82 was planning.

So from Yamit82 a little banter perhaps to lighten the tone. But nobody was Laughing out Loud (!) nor should they. To be very charitable to Yamit82, his big mouth had landed him in a lot of hot water.

There the issue would rest and would be forgotten about except that our site, 4international, is committed to not brushing stuff under the carpet.

The words are from the lips of the man himself. He is writing a huge amount of material and is placing it on Israpundit. And he has called above for the murder of “apostate” Jews HAS HE NOT? We have quite a few writers on 4international who are of Jewish extraction and I think it IS a matter for us. I think that Ted Belman should bar Yamit82 from the Israpundit site and should return to the previous Israpundit policy of excluding religious discussion from the site. Ted Belman, there is no arguing with God, you know. That was once your stated position.

This issue centres on Judaism and how people see Judaism. We on 4international are very clear. Judaism is an ancient religion which is actually very tied up with Jewish nationalism, the very existence of Jews as a nation. Judaism, as Herzl learned, held the Jews together through long years of Exile. Without Judaism and the practice of Judaism there simply would be no Israel at all today, to defend. Period! But we also say that Judaism is a religion, it is not a revolutionary theory, it cannot possibly meet and overcome the threat to it of Fascism, which is a modern phenomenon linked in with the very decay and death agony of the Capitalist system, and JUDAISM SHOULD NOT BE ASKED TO DO SO.

This has got a very serious aspect, one which we on 4international have often dealt with.

In the 1930s Trotsky who was a dialectical materialist, philosophically opposed to all religious thinking, not just religion in an organized sense but also all idealist thinking, was deeply concerned with the fate of the Jewish people as they faced the Nazi onslaught.

In short the answer of Trotsky was to assert most strongly that Jews must get out of the killing fields of Nazi Europe. It was an issue of how to fight antisemitism. He saw antisemitism as being waged against Jews on an international scale (and in fact it was waged against Trotsky himself and the Left Opposition in the 1925 to 27 period by the Stalinist bureaucracy, which in that time was using antisemitism in the battle against Trotsky’s policies). So Trotsky saw no help coming to the Jews from any of the world Capitalist powers. How right he was as anybody who knows the history will agree.

Trotsky therefore said that Jews must make their way to Palestine where they must set up their own Jewish state, a space on earth which must be free from antisemitism. There Jews could practice their ancient religion free from molestation.

The only way to go in Israel as in everywhere else is complete separation of state and religion. That is not the case under Yamit82 obviously, and it is not the case either under the Stalinist/Labourist reformist repressive attitude to Judaism of the Israeli ruling class. It seems to us on 4international that they are in fact biassed against Judaism, and they are using the state machinery (Sharon in the Gaza forced withdrawal attacking religious settlers) to repress Judaism.

We on 4international have not moved a great deal from the position of Trotsky in those fateful days of the 1930s. We want a space, Israel, where Jews are completely free to practice their ancient religion, or if they feel so inclined, to not practice it either.

We have on 4international much confidence in the revolutionary potential of the great Jewish people of Israel. We will return to this because the recent poll which we have covered bears this out.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/report-shows-great-danger-to-israelbut-israpundit-betrays/#more-231

Our position has got the promise of Israel defeating its fascist enemies, the position of Yamit82, well what can we say, is simply atrocious. As is the silence up to now of our colleague Ted Belman on Israpundit. It and he – Yamit82 - should be barred from Israpundit. And from everywhere. In this incredibly pressured situation that Israel is in we cannot have Jews going about threatening to kill other Jews for apostasy, or even suggesting they should be killed. Ted Belman please take action urgently on this matter. Nobody is Laughing Out Loud with or about Yamit82.

By Felix Quigley

Israel is now in the greatest danger that it has ever been in during all of its life. We on 4international have repeatedly emphasised that the way in which Yugoslavia was destroyed (wiped off the map) was through an alliance of American, British and German Imperialism which set up reactionary alliances with Fascist/Nazi entities within Yugoslavia. Those entities were the Fascists around Tudjman in Croatia, the Islamofascists in Bosnia around Izetbegovic, and the Thaci/Haradinaj Fascists and Stalinists of Kosovo. Weak on their own, nevertheless the role of US and NATO/EU Imperialism with all of its power, especially Military power linked to Media power, meant that the Serbs were isolated and defeated. Much of this went on behind the scenes, the public were not aware because the public always underestimates the role of conspiracy and secrecy in how the ruling Capitalist class works.

This is the great danger to the Jews today. While websites like Israpundit degenerate almost daily as it ties the Jews of America behind a pro- American Imperialist programme, and in concrete practice and reality carries out daily a MASSIVE BETRAYAL OF THE JEWS, the preparations for destroying the great Jewish nation and people proceeds at terrific speed.

JUST TODAY a report is issued by the very respected news agency and website called WorldNetDaily which lifts the cover off from the very advanced plans to destroy Israel. It tells the story of the great secrecy which exists, that the Olmert Government of Israel is very far advanced in betraying the whole future of the Jewish people in Israel, that the US Government is right at the centre of this conspiracy, and that just as in Croatia, Bosnia and in Kosovo it is the US Government (along with the EU/NATO) which is promoting Islamofascism. In these talks it is the Fatah Fascists of Abbas and the Hamas Fascists which the US is promoting. Great secrecy is the rule and that is why we on 4international are privileged right now to use the material provided by WorldNetDaily:

[begin quote here]

Posted: April 07, 2008
9:32 pm Eastern

Unlike previous Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in which both sides attended with about a dozen advisers each, the teams working with Livni and Qureia are small, usually consisting at most of five people each.

Also unlike previous talks, in which the contents of many meetings were leaked quickly to the media, the current negotiations have resulted in few press leaks

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=61018

We call on the cadre and the readers of 4international to take this report from WND most seriously. Those of us who have lived in Northern Ireland will understand something of what is going on here. It is said that peace was achieved in Northern Ireland. That is complete rubbish. What happened is that the killers and reactionaries of the Provos were placed in governmental power along with the Fascists of the DUP, a group which helped spawn many organizations of Protestant loyalist killers of Catholics. That plan, the Good Friday Agreement, was carried through by much conspiratorial planning over many years, involving also the infiltration into the Provos of British state agents, TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN THE PROVOS. All talks were carried through in great secrecy. So therefore you can see immediately that the structure of the talks above is on the same basis: great secrecy, few people involved, the aim being a final announcement AND AGREEMENT SIGNED, THE SIGNING WOULD OF COURSE BE A PUBLIC OCCASION, BUT THAT PUBLIC OCCASION WOULD BE A FORMALITY. That is how it worked in Northern Ireland. It is also how it worked in Yugoslavia right down the line, as we on 4international in our recent articles on Haradinaj have proved.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/usnato-owned-hague-icty-kangaroo-court-frees-kla-mass-murderer-ramush-haradinaj

Having dealt with the great secrecy and undemocratic nature of these talks in the Middle East, which WND emphasises, let us go on a little further with their report:

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The source said the U.S. pledged advanced training for thousands of PA security officers who would take over security in the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem and operate in those territories instead of the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police.

The U.S. previously has trained thousands of Palestinian security officers, including units in which known members of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group serve. Scores of those security forces have carried out terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, including recent deadly shootings in the West Bank.

But the source claimed the planned U.S. training is different:

“This training is unlike anything before. The PA, Israel and the U.S. are working very closely to vet the forces. All sides are approving the training candidates. The training is more advanced than ever. It will create a very serious Palestinian army,” said the source.

The source said as part of the negotiations, Abbas has agreed to hold early PA elections in the West Bank by 2009, including presidential elections that could replace the Palestinian leader.

PA elections previously have been held simultaneously in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The source’s description of planned new elections only in the West Bank implied the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip would be treated as a separate entity

Leaders from the Hamas terrorist organization, which swept the last municipal elections, stated the past few days Hamas would agree to early elections

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=61018

This will be the end of the road for Israel if a way is not found to stop this. Meanwhile the Jewish website which I know best carries out betrayal day after day. The editor, Ted Belman, has no perspective whatsoever to stop this Fascist Palestinian state – a direct threat to Israel – he ignores completely all of the articles which we print on 4international, he allows a person called Yamit82 to call for the murder of Jews, Jewish people who this person - Yamit82 - considers are not religious enough, he allows Levinson and others to carry on propaganda on behalf of Bush, McCain and the American Republican Party (he, Belman, agrees with that treacherous programme of choosing one branch of American Imperialism against another). In fact it is the American Imperialist system as a whole which is the enemy of the Jews of Israel, of Jews everywhere, of Iraqi poor, and of Serbian oppressed.

In the meantime every day which passes is a day lost against the need to stop the Iranian Fascists from building their nuclear bomb. The US Imperialists of Bush along with the Israeli traitors of Olmert are preparing to destroy Israel by means of the Palestinian Fascist state, but the US also will allow their friends - the Islamofascists in Iran - to complete their bomb. The only way to stop this planned destruction of Israel centres on the issue of forcing the Olmert Government from power and the election of a patriotic Jewish Government to defend Israel.

We on 4international are entirely different from this reactionary mob on Israpundit. We have a definite perspective which is based on the struggles fought by Leon Trotsky against Fascism and also for the setting up of a Jewish state which had and has to be made free of antisemitism. Knish and Yamit82 (the latter now calling for the murder of Jews, while Belman says not a word) have both slandered Trotsky, Trotskyism and our cadre on 4internatuional. So what are they now going to say and do about this vital WorldNetDaily report?

We on 4international call for the creation of a massive United Front of all who oppose this conspiracy by US Imperialism with Islamofascism – a truly massive United Front - in order to destroy Imperialism. We have showed that Knish has tried to close down the discussion. What will Belman do now on Israpundit? Will he continue to support Levinson, the Bush Republican zealot on Israpundit, or support Knish the hater of Trotsky, or Yamit82 the “Jew” who is out for the murder of Jews who do not fit the bill, that is, his bill? Ted Belman, we do need to know. 

By Felix Quigley

On 4international we intend to follow this man. His name is Ramush Haradinaj, everybody knows he is a killer and has murdered in cold blood many ordinary Serb peasants and simple country folk, we on 4international have already proved that and have exposed the alliance of the US and EU Imperialists with this killer of Serbs, an alliance which goes to the very tops of the US Elite, to Bush, Lieberman, Cheney, Holbrooke and McCain. In fact, the history of this man, and the alliance in practice formed with Haradinaj is a huge warning to the Jews of Israel not to trust - in any way - US Imperialism.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/usnato-owned-hague-icty-kangaroo-court-frees-kla-mass-murderer-ramush-haradinaj

This report on the return of Haradinaj to Kosovo, a return in triumph thanks to his employers in the US Imperialist state, we take from excellent website www.serbianna.com

[start serbianna report here]

Jubilant Kosovo Muslims welcome their war criminal
Christine Spolar
Chicago Tribune
April 07, 2008 4:00 AM [end serbianna report here]

Apr. 7–PRISTINA, Kosovo — Ramush Haradinaj’s victory tour headed into some harsh hills of this tiny new country.

His brawny motorcade of white and black SUVs rumbled through miles of farmland in western Kosovo that, nearly 10 years from war, still bear the scars of loss. Every half-hour, the former rebel commander once known as Rambo landed in another field of black granite gravestones.

Crowds turned out in their villages this weekend to applaud Haradinaj’s acquittal last week on war crime charges stemming from his years with the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA; Haradinaj arrived to shake hands among the family graves and to offer his own tribute.

“We are all here because of these people,” Haradinaj said, time and again, in the chill air. “Now the world knows what we know: This war was just. Our fight was just.”

A three-judge panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia cleared Haradinaj, the highest-profile ethnic Albanian to be sent to The Hague, of charges that the KLA persecuted and murdered largely Serb and Roma civilians in rebel attacks from March to September 1998.

In the remote villages where many former fighters live, Haradinaj’s brethren read the court ruling as a proper coda to their long battle for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia.

“It’s a great honor for us that he is back and that he is with us today,” said Selvije Fahmilladrovci, who stood in the damp grass of a cemetery where dozens of family members were buried. “We can’t separate Ramush from our brothers who died. We know what they fought for.”

At the bullet-scarred homestead of the Jashari family in the Drenica valley–where rebel fighter Adem Jashari and dozens of others died in battle with the Yugoslav army–old men allowed that the court gave new meaning to the deaths of so many.

Their people died as part of an honorable battle, they said, and Haradinaj was returned to them as a matter of justice.

“This place is part of Ramush himself,” 57-year-old Hasir Ahmeti said. “Seeing him brings back the memories.”

Decision upsets Serbia

The decision by the UN court at The Hague deeply upset Serbia, which has seen its share of former fighters indicted on war crimes linked to the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.

In its ruling on Haradinaj and two of his fighters, the court found that the Yugoslav army was deployed on the ground by April 1998 and the KLA engaged in a battle. Civilian deaths, and notably those of Serbs and Roma or alleged collaborators among ethnic Albanians, were not of a scale to be judged as a broad attack on the civilian population, the court said.

All three men were acquitted on all counts on allegations of crimes against humanity. One of Haradinaj’s aides was convicted of two counts of torture and cruelty, among dozens of charges facing the men. He was sentenced to prison.

The court decision–roundly portrayed as an exoneration of the KLA by Kosovo’s political elite–comes at a particularly bitter time for Serbia. Less than two months ago, Kosovo declared independence.

Serbia has refused to recognize the independence. Serbs in Kosovo, who account for 1 of every 10 people in this country of 2 million, have been living an uneasy existence, unsure of Kosovo’s promises of democratic order and under pressure by Serbia’s hard-line leaders.

For those Serbs, Haradinaj’s two-day tour of villages could hardly be called a welcome sight.

Albanians celebrate culture

The red-and-black Albanian flag fluttered above every community. Ethnic Albanians in traditional dress danced through some streets. Only the biggest cities flew the blue-and-yellow banner of the new democratic Kosovo. Haradinaj’s every speech championed the sacrifices of the ethnic Albanian cause.

Haradinaj asked the crowds to continue to struggle for a strong Kosovo. “We have to be careful. We can’t be overjoyed,” he said during one stop. “There are all big tasks ahead of us.” Asked later about the image of ethnic Albanian fighters standing together under a flag that signaled the KLA cause, Haradinaj shook his head.

He made no excuses for paying respects to those who had changed Kosovo’s destiny.

Serbs in Kosovo who knew his political past–Haradinaj had been a regional prime minister for a few months just before his indictment–would understand his tour through this new Kosovo, he said. For three years, while under indictment, Haradinaj was restricted from political life.

The roadshow through the countryside was part sentimental journey and, with political aides all around, the dawn of a new political career for Haradinaj.

“We reach out and some Serb citizens know what we do–but they also tell us, ‘Keep this low profile.’ They don’t want to be easy targets for Belgrade,” Haradinaj said. “That’s it.

“But Belgrade has to think about what they do here. Are they working for the people here? … I don’t owe anything to Belgrade. They ruined our lives. What I owe them is this: that I will be a good neighbor,” he said.

The roadshow ended Saturday night with Haradinaj at his family home in the village of Gllogjan. He embraced his mother. He raised a glass of spicy raki with his father. He visited the graves of two of his brothers, resting among dozens of others on a hillside, before sitting down for a meal with a roomful of survivors.

cspolar@tribune.com

by Felix Quigley

It is completely impossible to silence Trotskyism in this period because - just as in 1933 - only the policies and political programme of Leon Trotsky, the great Russian Revolutionary Socialist leader, could have saved the lives of 6 millions of Jews who were to perish at the hands of the Fascist Nazis. So therefore the recent horrific attack on Leon Trotsky by Sultan Knish just cannot stand.

Sultan Knish (which is a pseudonym) writes on his blog the following:

[begin quote here]

The only snag in the road is the usual blind spot the Democrats have when it comes to Republicans, the sheer blinding hatred and rage that prevents them from thinking straight. Because the Democratic strategy is meant to beat Bush on the 3rd try and is poorly adapted to running against McCain. McCain was never Bush’s VP, though the Democrats will do their best to emphasize a close relationship that never existed. McCain has very different politics and ideas than Bush does. There is a general dissatisfaction with the Republican party but there is also plenty of dissatisfaction with the Democratic party that this drawn out primary is only continuing to emphasize.

McCain is not the clunky gray robot that Bush Sr was and while the economic attacks will do their best to raise the ghost of Keating, Obama has managed to create his own scandals in a fairly short term in politics that are far more alive than Keating, such as Rezko, making it all too easy to exchange scandal for scandal.

With “Change” as the defining mantra, all that’s left is for McCain to see if experience can trump phony optimism. It hasn’t with Democratic voters but it likely will with the American voter.

[end quote here]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

Article entitled “Economy. The Democrats Electoral Plan”.

Sultan Knish is also writing for Israpundit (Editor Ted Belman) and he has just placed an article there, warning of Rice joining forces with McCain in the election, called “Fight a Rice VP spot now”.

The position of 4international is totally opposed to this political line. We on 4international have learned our lesson from Yugoslavia and it is of supreme indifference to Jews and Serbs who wins the US election. It is the system of Imperialism which is paramount, these presidents are all carrying out the requirements of that system. Editor Ted Belman of Israpundit now has at least two, three including himself, who are taking sides in this election. This is precisely the wrong message to be sending to Israel and to Jewish people today. On the one hand Belman pays lip service to the need for Jews and for Israel to be independent and on the other he is encouraging its reliance on a branch of American Imperialism. There is thus being created the sorry spectacle of Jews fighting over which particular Imperialist President would be best for Israel. You cannot win like that.

Sultan Knish writes above that “McCain has very different politics and ideas than Bush does.” But he does not articulate in what way McCain is different to Bush or in what way any of these US politicians are different, and in what way they are different in relation to the destruction of Yugoslavia, or to the issues facing Israel. You are left with the distinct impression in reading these that they are Republicans first - and supporters of Israel - second.

This is the great crisis in the ranks of those who are supporting Israel. They are all finding it quite impossible to make a break from American Imperialism.

Gerald A Honigman is quite an interesting writer, an excellent stylist, always well worth reading, always level headed, has rarely got any illusions in what faces Israel from the forces of US Imperialism (he does not use our terminology but the meaning is still the same). This from Honigman is interesting also on the same thread:

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The demands of any such 22nd Arab state must not come at the expense of the security of the sole, miniscule state of the Jews in a land in which they have 4,000 years of history.

Most Americans–non-Jews as well as Jews–oppose such lop-sided, anti-Israel American pressure.

Israel must resist Washington’s current unreasonable demands for it to act insanely–at least until America’s own upcoming Presidential election–and hope that more reasonable voices will once again gain ascendancy.

Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman (honigman6@msn.com)

Copyright © MichNews.com. All Rights Reserved.

[end quote here]

Honigman in his writing usually makes the fatal mistake of attacking the US State Department more or less solely, but this focus on the State Department usually in such writers fulfils the purpose of excusing the US Imperialist State as a whole. He does it earlier in this comment too but you can see in the above extract that Honigman is leaving Jews with the hope that something better will come along, that perhaps a different leadership (perhaps he means McCain) will do better by Israel.

The problems which all of these writers construct for themselves, and for their Jewish readers, is that they do not accept the system that they live in as one of Capitalism and of Imperialism. It is terribly basic, and a little tedious to have to raise it, almost like going back to primary school politics, but it is true. Not accepting that, they also are blind to the changing nature of Imperialism, a system changing every day, in explosive periods like the present, changing very rapidly.

Here on 4international we are making out a case for the policies and programme of Imperialism, and Imperialist powers like Britain, France, Germany and the US, to be Fascist in a definite sense. Leon Trotsky explained Fascism as a system of class rule based on the power of the mob (the enraged petty bourgeoisie and the lumpen proletariat). What we have learned from Yugoslavia is that that has its corollary in international affairs today. The international rules of the game, of states living with and even of fighting each other, have been dispensed with by Imperialism. That IS Yugoslavia in a nutshell. The same also applies to Israel where a Fascist and Antisemitic entity, the “Palestinian” state, is raised as a reward for Terror against Jews.

It matters not in the slightest for Jews, or for that matter for American ordinary people, who is the next President.

As we said here, dealing with this very issue of the US election, a few days ago:

[start quote here]

These are my criticisms:

 Obama is a Fascist type of politician. But he is not alone. Israpundit has spent acres of print over the past 2 months in attacking and exposing Obama. I am not saying do not do this. But they have missed the main item on Obama, and that is his similarity to these people:

George Bush Snr

George Bush Jnr

Clinton the man

Clinton the woman

Carter

Reagan

And all other US Presidents that I have read about.

[end quote here]

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/the-sultan-knish-is-a-pro-imperialist/#more-189

There is one other thing though which is most striking about Israpundit, about Knish, about Honigman, about Belman,  and that is their total paralysis when it comes to developing an independent practice, a paralysis which is fatal and leads to an abject pessimism.

In the same article I had posed a challenge to Knish. What did he propose actually in practice doing? My challenge to Knish first, second his reply:

[begin quote here]

Issue facing Jews is this:

We say that Jews must act to stop this. A: get rid of the Olmert Government,  B: Put in power a revolutionary type patriotic Jewish government (you can drop the revolutionary and just stick with patriotic but in practice it will be hard to separate the two)But it must be on a definite programme. To not give away Judea and Samaria. To protect Jews inside and outside from antisemitism.

Sultan Knish tell us here how concretely that can be done. By concretely I mean specific and down to earth proposals for action, or practice.

On those two issues only at this point

Get rid of Olmert
Put in power a patriotic govt on a specific programme.

So you see I am throwing a challenge to you Sultan Knish. I have switched from your extreme prejudice and obvious ignorance on Leon Trotsky to asking what you as a Jewish person is going to propose to do.

What we do, not what we say, is primary.

How to save the Jews from a new Holocaust? History is repeating itself. We are back in 1933 again.

[end quote here]

This was the answer from Knish:

[begin quote here]

I have very little interest in debating people whose ideology is covered in Jewish blood…

[end quote here]

And essentially he didn’t!!! Indeed I doubt if he will! It is actually a quite horrific reply from Knish because it is a horrific slur on the memory of Leon Trotsky, which is also a deliberate lie, part of the Big Lie method so disastrous for the Jewish people. The ideology of Trotskyism is not covered in Jewish blood. We refute that slur and that lie totally. We will deal with all of this in more detail at another time and indeed we have already clarified the principled position of Trotsky to all religion, and of course to Judaism, even from the earliest stages of workers power in Russia.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/myers-nedava-and-trotsky/#more-104

So it is a lie, and in the treatment of the issue and his answer to my enquiry, it is an evasion of the central issue which Jewish people today face. How can Israel survive and how can the Jews as a nation survive?

It is here that the great lessons of the period 1933 to 1945 have to be urgently drawn. This was the period of the menace to the Jews of Nazism, of Fascism, and it is in discussing this that opinions will sharply divide. It is clear that Knish does not even get to the starting blocks in this necessary discussion. The man is filled with bias. He is a communist hater. That is his starting point and he cannot budge from that.

So Knish cannot face up to this reality:

1. Judaism is a religion and philosophy of life. In the period from 1933 to 1945 it proved completely incapable of defending the Jewish people. In fact as a religion, not a revolutionary theory and practice of the modern period, it should not be asked to. It should not be asked to face up to the modern phenomenon and threat of Fascism, a product of the historical decay and death agony of Capitalism, the menace of our modern epoch, a menace which flows directly out of Capitalism and Imperialism in this specific period. We on 4international respect Judaism, we do not ask Judaism to do that which it is not able or created to do.

2. On the other hand in order to understand this modern phenomenon of Fascism you have to base your understanding on the theoretical and practical struggle of Leon Trotsky, and this struggle of Leon Trotsky combined also a struggle against the treacherous programme and practice of Stalin, later to become known as Stalinism. This represents in no way hero worship: what an abysmal thought! It is just that Leon Trotsky alone represented the political current to challenge and to fight against Stalinism, which was indeed the gravedigger of the revolution.

3. In concrete terms to save the Jews in the period from 1933 to 1945 it was necessary to take on board not Judaism, but the revolutionary theory and practice as placed before the whole world by Leon Trotsky.

4. Again in concrete terms this incorporated a call by Leon Trotsky to Jews to at all costs get out of Europe and in Palestine create their Jewish state, that is, the Israel to be.

5. Except that Trotsky insisted that this Jewish state should be made free from antisemitism (which we intend to explore on this site) the future Jewish leaders of Israel, who founded Israel, like Ben Gurion, definitely and most unfortunately did not do.

All of that is history. It is written down and sourced to the high heavens. Nobody can deny it. But it has been denied and distorted by many people, especially by the Imperialists, by the Stalinists who murdered Trotsky, and by the Fascist, Antisemitic Fake “Lefts” of today. Strangely enough in the above attack on Trotsky it is clear that Knish is also part of that mob, part of that dreadful distortion. Promoter in fact of the Big Lie.

But it cannot hold and will not hold. Israel is threatened with annihilation from a combination of enemies, from Imperialism, from the antisemitism of the Fascist Fake “Left”, and from the Islamofascists. It is vital that Jewish patriots come forward now to discuss seriously the way forward. We as a Trotskyist movement will not be silenced. That is impossible!

By Felix Quigley

On November 15, 2007 the results of a very important and comprehensive poll of Israeli Jewish people was taken. The people who carried out this poll were of the highest integrity. The results were interpreted by IMRA.  What is happening in the world today is massive lying about reality. We experienced this on the whole issue of Yugoslavia, it is happening in relation to China and Tibet, it is happening in relation to Russia and the encirclement of Russia by Bush’s US Imperialism, and it is happening in all of the lies told against Israel.Who, you may also ask, is IMRA? The following is a little information on IMRA:

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-7255730
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
Website: http://www.imra.org.il

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=38451

 Let us put one thing to bed immediately. I know of Dr Lerner as a pro Israel advocate and so what! He is truthful in his analysis of this poll. If the poll has not been conducted on the basis of scientific probity then we say to the enemies of Israel and to our enemies…prove it! We on 4international stand by the veracity of this poll.

Furthermore we believe that this poll is of the most fundamental importance for Israel, for the Jewish people, and also for us as revolutionary socialists and as Trotskyists.

Our position on Israel follows on from that of Leon Trotsky in the 1930s, when he called for Jews to at all costs escape from Europe and certain death at the hands of the Nazi Fascists, and make their way to Palestine. There, Trotsky asserted, the Jews must set up their Jewish state which they must make free from antisemitism.

This poll is therefore of fundamental importance to us on this site. It is in fact the very political foundation of our work. Much more on that aspect of things at a later stage. Here we want to simply give our readers the facts of this poll of Israeli public opinion in order to educate our cadre and readers.

[begin report on poll here]

A poll carried out within the last month shows strong opposition to the positions that Secretary Condoleeza Rice and President Shimon Peres have repeatedly claimed are held by Israel’s Jews. It turns out that the Jews of Israel do not want the IDF to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria, do not believe the Palestinian Authority is responsible or capable of stopping terror against Israel, do believe that Hamas is likely to topple Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. Israeli Jews overwhelming oppose dividing Jerusalem and recoil at the idea of transferring sovereignty over the Temple Mount.

The telephone poll of a representative sample of 1,012 adult Israeli Jews was carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz) on 18-26 October 2007.
Survey error +/- 4.5 percentage points. The poll was commissioned by the Israel Policy Center for Promoting Parliamentary Democracy and Jewish Values in Israeli Public Life. The Jerusalem-based center is headed by Prof. Yitzhak Klein, who also advises the Knesset Law Committee.

Text of questions and results as translated by IMRA:

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is carrying out negotiations with the head of the PA, Abu Mazen, on an agreement that he claims will advance an arrangement with the Palestinians, within the framework of which the IDF will withdraw from Judea and Samaria, Jewish communities will be evacuated from there, part of Jerusalem will be transferred to the Palestinians and a Palestinian state will be established in those areas.

1. In your opinion, is Abu Mazen and his government able or unable today to prevent terror attacks and the firing of rockets against Israel from the areas of Judea and Samaria?
Unable 77% Maybe 10% Able 12% Other replies 1%

2. Should Israel withdraw form the territories of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, what do you think the chances are that Hamas takes over these areas?
No chance 5% Very low chance 7%
Middle chance 21%
High chance 27% Very high 38%
Other replies 2%

3. In your opinion, what are the chances that rockets will be fired at Israeli cities should the IDF withdraw from areas in Judea and Samaria or Jerusalem?
No chance 5% Very low 13%
Middle 25%
High 23% Very high 32%
Other replies 2%

4. There are those who maintain that within 3 to 5 years Israel will have a system to defend about rockets that will prevent the Israeli heartland from being hit. Do you think that in the future it may be possible to rely on such a system to provide sufficient protection?
No 32% Maybe 36% Yes 28% Other replies 4%

5. In light of the current situation of the PA, do you support or oppose Israel committing to transfer sovereignty over the Temple Mount to the Palestinians?
Oppose 78% Maybe 9% Support 11% Other replies 2%

6. In light of the current situation of the PA, do you support or oppose that Israel should commit to transfer parts of Jerusalem to Palestinian control??
Oppose 69% Maybe 11% Support 17% Other replies 3%

7. In light of the current situation of the PA, do you support or oppose that Israel should commit to remove the IDF from most of Judea and Samaria, and transfer it to Palestinian control?
Oppose 61% Maybe 15% Support 22% Other replies 2%

8. In light of the experience with the disengagement, do you support or oppose that Israel should commit to a mass evacuation of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria?
Oppose 65% Maybe 13% Support 19% Other replies 3%

9.In light of past experience, do you believe that the evacuation of communities and withdrawal of the IDF from territories strengthens or weakens Israel security and international standing?
Weakens 59% Strengthens 33% Other replies 8%

10. Do you support or oppose the proposal according to which the State of Israel will offer reasonable compensation to Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in order that they agree to emigrate to other countries?
Support 54% Oppose 38% Other replies 8%

11. Do you agree or disagree with the claim that today, in retrospect, the drive to achieve peace with the Palestinians has done damage to the State of Israel?
Agree 52% Disagree 40% Other replies 8%

12. Do you agree or disagree with the claim that in light of the experience of the past Israel should deal with the Palestinians with a tougher approach and not seek simple ways to solve the Israel-Arab conflict?
Agree 65% Disagree 28% Other replies 7%

13. What do you think is closer to the truth?
36% The main purpose of Ehud Olmert’s drive for an agreement with Abu Mazen is his concern for Israel’s national interests.
53% The main purpose of Ehud Olmert’s drive for an agreement with Abu Mazen is his concern for his personal and political future 11% Other replies

14. What do you think is closer to the truth 34% The main purpose of the Kadima Party’s drive for an agreement with Abu Mazen is concern for Israel’s national interests.
55% The main purpose of the Kadima Party’s drive for an agreement with Abu Mazen is the desire to insure the continuation of the coalition and remaining in power.
11% Other replies

15. Today there are four criminal investigations underway against prime minister Ehud Olmert. The prime minister announced that he does not intend to temporarily remove himself because of thee investigations. Should the Knesset act now to (temporarily) remove or to expel Olmert from his position?
Yes 55% No 40% Other replies 5%

16. What do you think is closer to the truth?
39% The main reason that minister Avigdor Lieberman favors dividing Jerusalem is his concern for the national interests of Israel 45% The main reason that minister Avigdor Lieberman favors dividing Jerusalem is his desire to keep his seat in the Olmert Government 16% Other replies 16%

17. in light of the remarks of Minister Avigdor Lieberman favoring the division of Jerusalem do you see him today as more trustworthy or less than in the past?
Less trustworthy 46% No change 32% More 13% Other replies 9%

18. Minister Eli Yishai, chairman of the Shas Party, said a number of weeks ago that Shas will not give its hand to the division of Jerusalem. In light of this declaration, do you think that Shas should leave the Olmert Government if an agreement is signed with Abu Mazen that includes the division of Jerusalem?
Should not 29% Should 60% Other replies 11%

19. What do you think is closer to the truth?
29% The main motive of Shas in its decisions on policy is the national interest of Israel 65% The main motive of Shas in its decisions on policy is the desire to retain the positions and budgets that they have within the framework of the Olmert Government 06% Other replies

20. Minister of Education Yuli Tamir decided recently to include in the history books used in Israeli schools information according to which some Israeli Arabs see the War of Independence of Israel as “Nakba”, namely a national disaster for the Palestinian People. Do you support or oppose Minister Tamir’s decision?
Support 32% Oppose 63% Other replies 5%

21. The JNF was founded by the Zionist movement in order to purchase land in Israel and to settle Jews in it. Recently the Supreme Court ruled that the JNF cannot designate its land exclusively for Jewish settlement, and in light of this the Knesset approved, in a preliminary reading, a law that permits designating the land of the JNF exclusively to Jews. Do you support or oppose this proposed law?
Support 63% Oppose 31% Other replies 6%

22. Last year a number of organizations and prominent leaders of the Israeli-Arab population published position papers, within which they rejected the nature of Israel as the state of the Jewish People. In light of this position, do you agree or disagree with the assertion that Israeli Arabs should not be citizens of the State and it would be better if they took another citizenship?
Agree 42% Disagree 46% Other replies 12%

Background question: (Of great importance…FQ)
Religiosity: Secular 51% Traditional 24% National-religious 10% Ultra Orthodox 12% Other replies 3%

[end report on poll here]

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12358.htm

Postscript by Felix Quigley

Many thanks to the wonderful people in Israel who carried out this truthful poll of the thinking among ordinary Israelis, carried out to the highest scientific level of probity. We on this site have never before seen such an outstanding piece of scientific work. This is exactly what we on this site need in order to counter the lies of those who hate Israel, of the Antisemites, and it will help our leadership to orient ourselves correctly in the period ahead. We will return to our analysis of this report in future articles on 4international so we ask our readers to study the above very carefully indeed and to keep the results very firmly in your minds.

Compiled by Nathan Pearlstein & Peter Robert North

Just a few days ago, the imperialist US/NATO owned and controlled ICTY Kangaroo Court in the Hague, Netherlands,  released the Islamist Nazi KLA mass murderer, Ramush Haradinaj. 

That they would do this was predicted in early 2005, by Gregory Copley, the president of the prestigious and world-renowned International Strategic Studies Association - the parent organization of the Defense & Foreign Affairs group of publications, based in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States.  See their reports on ex-Yugoslavia here:

 http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Balkanindex.htm

What follows is indisputable proof that the United States government – both Republican and Democrat administrations - planned IN ADVANCE all along the early release - or total immunity from prosecution - of virtually every one of the Islamist Nazi terrorist Albanian KLA mass murderers led by Hashim Thaci(e.g. Agim Ceku and Ramush Haradinaj); the Bosnian SDA Islamofascist murderers led by Alija Izetbegovic (e.g. Naser Oric in June 2006); and the Croatian Ustasha Nazi mass murderers led by the late Franjo Tudjman and Stipe Mesic (e.g. Ante Gotovina,Tomislav Mercep, Dobrosav Paraga ).

This repetitive US,NATO/EU intervention on behalf of Islamofascist/Nazi killers of innocent civilians in furtherance of Western geostrategic imperialism (expansion) in the Balkans - with the result being the European expansion of Fascist Islam - has very grave implications not just for the people of Serbia and the rest of Europe, but also grave implications for Israel and the Jewish people.

Ex-Clinton administration “peace envoy” Richard Holbrooke – beneficiary of  the Albanian KLA Islamist Nazi Narco-Terrorist Child Sex Slavery Mafia – gets the president of the US/NATO owned and controlled Hague ICTY Kangaroo Court to free the ex-Kosovo “Prime Minister” and KLA Islamist Nazi war criminal – Ramush Haradinaj – IN ADVANCE of his totally phony ”surrender” and ”trial” at the Hague ICTY:

“a deal would be struck to ensure that he did not serve prison time for the charges he faced.”  

[start quote here]

US Policy in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean: Time to Stop Choosing Sides, and to Start Choosing Strategic Interests

By Gregory R. Copley,

President, the International Strategic Studies Association.[1]

Presented at the Capitol Hill Conference on

FYROM: The Need for Reassessment of US Policy in the Balkans.

Longworth House of Representatives Office Building,

Washington, DC: April 14, 2005

“The fact that the KLA leader and, until March 8, 2005, Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush (Hilmi) Haradinaj, was indicted for war crimes and taken to The Hague for trial still has not penetrated the consciousness of what is transpiring.

Moreover, in order to somewhat ease the embarrassment of having backed the wrong side — the side of al-Qaida, the narco-traffickers, the true genocidal xenophobists, and the criminal gangs — in Kosovo, the US is in some ways actively working to let Mr Haradinaj out of prison, so that he can “fight his legal battle from a position of freedom” [Preceding quote in italics by a US State Department spokesman].

“This is a man charged with having directly and personally killed many innocent people, not a politician who allegedly allowed things to happen by default.

The scandal of this particular case has yet to break, but suffice it to say that Albanian mafia linked to the KLA have worked through former US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke — a close associate of the KLA and a beneficiary of its support — to approach the US President of the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Theodore Meron, to see Haradinaj released.[4]

There are reports from within the ICTY that the State Department would approve the release of Haradinaj, and had, in fact, agreed with Haradinaj in advance of his surrender to the ICTY, that a deal would be struck to ensure that he did not serve prison time for the charges he faced.”

4] Meron, a professor of law at New York University, was a member of the US official delegation to the Rome talks in 1998, at which the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was discussed. At that conference, he reflected the US line, which was in complete opposition to the foundation of the ICC, but subsequently accepted to be President of the ICC’s subsidiary court, the ICTY.

[end quote here]

http://www.macedoniansincanada.com/Grecory%20R.%20Copley.htm

Albanian KLA Islamist Nazi mass murderers pose for the cameras in Kosovo: Sadik Cuflaj, KLA member from the Decani area ( i.e., the murderer smiling in the middle – holding a human head, that of a Serb by the name of Bojan Cvetkovic,who was a sales clerk from Nis, in Serbia). 

The smiling young man to the left of  Sadik Cuflaj is his son Valon Cuflaj, born in April 1981 in the village of Prilep, municipality of Decani. He has an UNMIK[United Nations Mission in Kosovo] identity card and is now (as of November 2003) a member of the so-called ”Kosovo Protection Corps” with the rank of lieutenant.

These are the kind of Islamist Nazi mass murderers US Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman supported during the 1990’s and continue to support to this day (both McCain and Lieberman have taken substantial amounts of money from the KLA’s front group in the US: the “Albanian American Civic League” run by disgraced US Congressman of Albanian descent, Joe Dioguardi).

 Full story can be found at the following link

http://www.ex-yupress.com/evnovosti/evnovosti13.html

Above two photos: Bodies of victims killed by the Albanian Islamist Nazi KLA (UCK) – commanded by Ramush Haradinaj -and thrown into the Radonjic Lake canal in Glodjane, Kosovo in 1998.

Preceding four photos above: The Serbian victims of the Gracko Massacre:14 Serb farmers were killed by the Thaci, Ceku & Haradinaj-led Albanian Islamist Nazi KLA terrorists in July,1999, in the village of Gracko, Kosovo, while the Serb farmers were taking harvest in their field.

The Serbian relatives and families grieving for their loved ones at the Christian Orthodox funeral of the 14 Serbian farmers brutally murdered by Ramush Haradinaj’s Islamist Nazi KLA terrorists in the village of Gracko, Kosovo, July, 1999, after US/NATO troops took over the province.

Serbian Orthodox Christian Requiem for the 14 Serbian farmers murdererd by the Thaci, Ceku & Haradinaj-led Islamist Nazi KLA thugs in the village of Gracko, Kosovo, July, 1999.

The crime these Serbs had committed was going to the Sunday mass. It happened in Granovec, Kosovo, before the Yugoslav Serbian security forces intervened. This Kosovo Serbian family, here in the picture, was hacked to death by the US/NATO sponsored Islamist Nazi KLA in the summer of 1998. The woman in the picture was five months pregnant; the Islamist Nazi Albanians (KLA-UCK) after raping her, literally cut the baby (fetus) out of her womb with a butcher-knife. The man in the right hand corner (her husband) had his legs chopped off with an axe at his knees, so before he died he was helplessly watching what the Albanian KLA Islamist Nazi savages were doing to his wife.

This young Serbian father and his little baby were brutally butchered by the Albanian Islamist Nazi KLA bandits, after the NATO Forces entered Kosovo. One of the KLA Islamist Nazi bandits grabbed the baby by his tiny legs and smashed his head against a brick wall. His father was first shot, then beaten to death with an iron pipe.

Proved: United States Associates With And Actively Supports Albanian Criminals in the Balkans As Evidence is Hidden

Pravda.RU:
23:18 2001-03-18
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/03/18/3032.html

[start quote here]

“In 1999, the KLA unit under Ramush Haradinaj’s command killed 40 civilians from the Kosovo village of Glodjani and threw the bodies into the Radonjic Lake canal.”

Now the United Nations is investigating him [Ramush Haradinaj] after a shooting incident, an investigation which the US has tried to interfere with. Here are the facts:
In June, 1999, Ramush ordered the killing of four members of FARK (Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo), a rival group to the KLA. As is Albanian custom, the brothers of one dead man went to the father of Ramush to ask for their brother’s bones. Ramush later that night went to the brothers, of the Musaj family, where a shooting incident took place.

Ramush was helicoptered to the US base in Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel and then to a United States military hospital in Germany to receive treatment. He is at present [March, 2001] in Washington, the guest of congressman Benjamin Gilman, raising funds for his political party before next October’s elections in Kosovo.
United Nations investigators into this incident claim that while Ramush was away, United States officials left [US military Base] Bondsteel, went to the village of Strellic, where the incident took place, and removed forensic evidence that Ramush had been present, including the act of taking bullets from walls.

United Nations police reports link Ramush to two well-known Albanian Mafia men, Naser Kelmendi and Ekrem Lluka. Lluka is suspected by UN police of being involved actively in the trafficking of drugs in Kosovo, Greece, Italy and Albania.

British military sources, who asked to remain unnamed, classified Ramush as “a psychopath”.

“Someone would pass him information and he would disappear for two hours. The result would be several bodies in a ditch”.

[end quote here]

(Photographs and excerpts from an article detailing atrocities against Kosovo Serbs perpetrated by US/UK ally and KLA commander & ex-Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj)

http://www.kosovo.net/ramush.html

[start quote here]

“At the end of 1999 the chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal, Carla del Ponte, announced that an investigation had been started regarding war crimes against the non-Albanian population in Kosovo. The investigation was almost completely blocked until recently because information was not forthcoming from either side, the spokeswoman of the prosecutor’s office of the Hague tribunal, Florence Hartmann (Florence Hartmann-Domankusic), told “Reporter”. The new government in Serbia, according to Hartmann, has submitted all documentation to The Hague. “Indictments will be issued only against those persons against whom we have evidence,” she explained. Zoran Zivkovic, the Yugoslav minister of internal affairs, told “Reporter” that “more than 30 kilograms of various documents were turned over to the head of the office of the Hague tribunal in Belgrade.” In the meanwhile, the investigators of this tribunal have collected about 80 testimonials from family members of the missing and witnesses.

Despite increasingly frequent public discussion (in Serbia) that Agim Cheku, Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj are under investigation by the Hague tribunal, Hartmann said that “the investigation is in progress”, however, she added that she “never confirmed that these three men are under investigation.”

[end quote here]

Some photographic evidence of the genocidal atrocities perpetrated against Serbian civilians (including babies being burned alive) by the NATO/UN-sponsored KLA/KPC, can be found at the following links.

I warn our readers here that the images are brutal and graphic and definitely not for the faint-hearted.

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/english/kim/index.php

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/galerija/sz/1.php

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/galerija/gorazdevac/index.php

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/galerija/sz/index.php

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/galerija/sz/2.php

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/galerija/sz/3.php

http://www.pogledi.co.yu/galerija/gracanica/index.php

http://kosovo.net/gracko_victims.html

http://members.tripod.com/YuSupportNet/atrocity.html

I also suggest that readers do a search for the following terms in Google after typing in “Thaci”, “Ceku”, “Haradinaj”, “KLA”:

“klecka crematorium”
“gracko”
“glodjane”
“ohrahovac”
“gorazdevac”
“gracanica”
“pec”
“panda cafe murders”

Also, for information regarding the Albanian gangster mentality of “blood fueds” [also known as "Geg culture"] which is based on a 15th Century Albanian text called the Canon [or kanun] of Leke Dukagjini , I strongly recommend readers look at the following link:

http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/keys.htm

Reporter, Banja Luka
Issue 190, December 12, 2001
http://www.reportermagazin.com/rep190/0006.htm

Crimes of the KLA: Command responsibility of Ramush Haradinaj

Massacre in the village of his birth

The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo was the commander of the district where several dozens of non-Albanians were killed in 1998

By Jelena BJELICA

The village of Glodjane is located in Metohija, approximately seven kilometers from Decani and about 20 kilometers from the border with Albania. Glodjane is a purely ethnic Albanian village. In its immediate proximity in the village of Dubrava, at the beginning of which is a house belonging to the only non-Albanian family in the ten or so surrounding villages, some 100 meters from the last house in Glodjane, belonging to Eljmija Haradinaj. The Haradinaj family has been quite involved in crimes against Serbs.

The commander

“The local Albanians say that everything began when a police patrol leaving from Glodjane tried to stop and obtain the identification cards two young men, Rasim Selmanaj, an activist of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo, and another young man whose name is not mentioned. According to another version of the story, the police opened fire on Rasim and the other young man when they refused to stop. According to the official report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Serbia, on March 24, 1998 at 10:45 a.m., an armed terrorist attack was carried out against a police patrol in the village of Dubrava, Decani municipality, Kosovo and Metohija.”, it is stated in the report of the Humanitarian Rights Foundation (Fond za humanitarna prava – FHP) from May 1998. On that day, as confirmed by a KLA statement from May 1998, during “a successful operation against the occupier” near Glodjane, fighters Gazmend and Agron Mehmetaj and Him Haradinaj were killed. The police withdrew from the village at about 8:00 o’clock in the evening. After these clashes, the Kosovo Liberation Army established control points at the entrance and exit from the village and took control of it.

At the beginning of the same year, Ramush Haradinaj returned permanently from Switzerland to Kosovo and joined this Albanian paramilitary formation. His brother Daut was one of the key people of the KLA, responsible for its organization in the Metohija district. Daut was one of three members of the KLA who appeared for the first time in public in the village of Drenica at the funeral of a teacher killed by the Serbian police. At that funeral, he gave a speech in which he stated that the KLA officially exists. At the beginning of April, the command headquarters of the KLA, under the command of Hashim Thaci, appointed Ramush Haradinaj commander of the Metohija region. Haradinaj’s headquarters was located in Glodjane, where he was born, according to the book “Stories of War and Freedom” by Bardah Hamzaj, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Pristina daily “Zeri”, prepared in the format of a dialog with Ramush Haradinaj.

The crimes

Not knowing that his father had been taken from his house, on the morning of April 22, 1998, Novak Stijovic headed for the village of Pozar with the intent of accompanying his father to Decani. Stanisa Radosevic and his mother Rosa went with him in search of Slobodan Radosevic (the father) who one day earlier had decided to remain in the village of Dasinovac with Milica and Milos Radunovic and look after his property after the KLA took control of the village. In the village of Pozar, they were stopped by a group of armed Albanians. In a statement made for FHP, Novak said: “There were about 30 of them; we recognized them. They pointed guns at us. They searched us and said that they had to take us to the headquarters in Glodjane. One of them held a gun pointed at my head. On the road to Rznici, there were 50-60 armed civilians every 50 meters; from Rznici to Glodjane, everyone was in uniform.” All three were released later that same day but they were not allowed to go to Dasinovac to get Slobodan.

Almost all citizens who were stopped on any of the local roads in spring of 1998 were taken to the headquarters in Glodjane. In the headquarters in Glodjane, members of the KLA applied well-known methods. “They took us to the headquarters in the house of Nasim Haradinaj, abandoned back in 1990; we had heard that the owners were living in Sweden,” said Mijat Stojanovic in a statement for FHP. Stojanovic is the owner of the only non-Albanian house in Dubrava; on April 18 he was arrested in his house, together with his brother Dragoslav and cousin Veselin Stijovic, and they were taken to the headquarters. “We were forced to lie down on concrete. First they took Dragoslav into a small room where there were two chairs. There were two soldiers there and a third who interrogated him. Nemonaj Zici, whom I knew from before, ordered me to remove my clothes. Two of them beat me with clubs and rifle butts. This lasted approximately 40 minutes.”

The lake

In the general area of the village of Glodjane in the first half of September 1998 at least 39 bodies were discovered in various stages of decomposition. The bodies were found at three different locations on a collective farm in the village of Rznici, in a canal leading to Radonjic Lake and near it, and proximate to the canal in the village of Dasinovac.

During the course of events, after yet another clash between members of the KLA and the (Yugoslav) army and (Serbian) police on September 8, 1998, during “pursuit after terrorists and a search of the district,” as written in the official police report, 13 unidentified bodies of civilians of both sexes and various ages were discovered in the canal supplying Radonjic Lake.

The very next day the investigating judge of the District Court in Pec, Radomir Gojkovic, wrote a petition to the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Belgrade requesting the appointment of a group of experts for establishing the identity, causes and time of death and other data relevant for future activities in connection with the mass grave near Gl odjane. In the meanwhile, during the first phase of searching the district begun on September 11, at least 21 additional bodies were found. “During the first several days of the investigation the weather was dry, sunny and warm. Several days later it began to rain. The level of water in the canal rose significantly, carrying body parts, clothing and objects down the canal.”, it is written in the report. Several days later, five additional bodies were found. During the autopsy 12 of these bodies were identified. The bodies of the above-mentioned Radunovices and Radosevic, last seen at the end of April, were found near the canal in the village of Dasinovac. “Due to various stages of decomposition, it was not possible to establish the cause of death solely on the basis of the conducted autopsy. However, in 19 cases traces of wounds were found on the bones and there is no doubt that they are made by bullets fired from weapons of a small caliber. In 24 cases signs of mechanical weapons were found; in two cases there were traces of sharp mechanical weapons, while in three instances, according to the marks on the bones and clothes of the victims, they were exposed to high temperatures (bodies found in Dasinovac). Several objects on and near the bodies (metal wire and adhesive tape) suggest that some of the victims were first tied up and tortured,” it is written in the experts’ report on the cause of death. All the victims were killed during the period between April 1998 and the end of August of the same year, give or take a few days.

 Islamist Nazi KLA commander and mass murderer, Ramush Haradinaj

Epilog

At the end of 1999 the chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal, Carla del Ponte, announced that an investigation had been started regarding war crimes against the non-Albanian population in Kosovo. The investigation was almost completely blocked until recently because information was not forthcoming from either side, the spokeswoman of the prosecutor’s office of the Hague tribunal, Florence Hartmann (Florence Hartmann-Domankusic), told “Reporter”. The new government in Serbia, according to Hartmann, has submitted all documentation to The Hague. “Indictments will be issued only against those persons against whom we have evidence,” she explained. Zoran Zivkovic, the Yugoslav minister of internal affairs, told “Reporter” that “more than 30 kilograms of various documents were turned over to the head of the office of the Hague tribunal in Belgrade.” In the meanwhile, the investigators of this tribunal have collected about 80 testimonials from family members of the missing and witnesses.

Despite increasingly frequent public discussion (in Serbia) that Agim Cheku, Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj are under investigation by the Hague tribunal, Hartmann said that “the investigation is in progress”, however, she added that she “never confirmed that these three men are under investigation.”

Translated by S. Lazovic (Dec. 27, 2001)

Additional articles from the international press related to Mr. Haradinaj:

Page with many KLA related articles and studies

OBSERVER, US “Cover Up” for Kosovo Ally, by Nicholas Wood, Sep 10, 2000

Reality Macedonia: Ramush Haradinaj
Controversial relationship between Ramush and Americans, Who is responsible for the murder of Suad Qoraj and other executed Serbs and non-conformist Albanians

ZERI, Musaj Family – We Were Attacked, July 11, 2000 – Abuses of KPC
A story about the post war gun fight between clans of Haradinaj and Musaj

More information on “Commander” Ramush Haradinaj, Balkanpeace.org
His men already are suspected of carrying out the Panda Cafe murders, when masked rebels opened fire in December on a restaurant the city of Pec, killing six Serbian youths. His men also are suspected of shooting at U.S. diplomatic monitors. And Hajredinaj himself is wanted by the Serb regime as a terrorist. Associated Press,

Observer London, UN Backed KPC’s Reign of Terror, March 12, 2000

WP, Kosovo Albanian Unit Is Accused Of Abuses, March 15, 2000

TWO YEARS LATER 5 HIGHEST RANKING CORPS OFFICERS, ALL FORMER KLA COMMANDERS SUSPENDED – text by Associated Press, July 6 -2001

Selected articles related to Ramush Haradinaj

Pravda.RU:
23:18 2001-03-18
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/03/18/3032.html

Proved: United States Associates With And Actively Supports Albanian Criminals in the Balkans As Evidence is Hidden

It has long been rumoured that the USA equipped, trained and dressed the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) for use against the Serbs in Kosovo. Such an instrument would give the USA leverage over a crucial area of Eastern Europe and would also placate the Albanian Mafia pressure groups in New York.

Ramush Haradinaj’s file on the Macedonian site
Who is Who and What is What Among Albanians
Original Link

According to the website Who is Who and What is What in the Albanian Cause, Ramush Haradinaj is former commander in the KLA and former right-hand man of Agim Cheku, the head of the Kosovo Protection Corps, convicted war criminal. Formally, after a financial scandal, Haradinaj was removed from his post in KPC. His brother, Daut Haradinaj, former KPC commander for Metohija, is on U.S. President’s black list of Albanian terrorists.

On May 25, 2000, Haradinaj participated in the Gnjilane meeting (also attended by Agim Cheku, Murat Jashari, Shaqir Shaqiri, and Shefket Musliu). The goal of this meeting was continuing of war in Serbia and preparation for war in Macedonia.

Haradinaj’s main source of income is smuggling of tobacco and illegal drugs, under control of Naser Kelmendi and Ekrem Luka. On July 7, 2000, Haradinaj was wounded in the village Strelci, West Kosovo, and treated in an American Hospital in Germany. The motive for the wounding was inter-mafia conflict between the gangs belonging to Tachi-Haradinaj and Musaj families.

In 1999, the KLA unit under Ramush Haradinaj’s command killed 40 civilians from the Kosovo village of Glodjani and threw the bodies into the Radonjic Lake canal.

From the Emperor’s Clothes

Slaughter at a Children’s Cafe

On December 14, 1998, six children were murdered when a masked gunman sprayed the Panda Cafe in Pec with bullets. The crime was so horrendous that even US Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke denounced it. [Footnote 8]

‘”Because of its cruelty and its cowardice, this crime stands above all crimes,’ said Mirko Simonovic, principal of the slain teenagers’ school’. [Agence France Presse Footnote 8]

The KLA was behind the attack. But who in particular?

“…….His [Ramush Hajredinaj's] men already are suspected of carrying out the Panda Cafe murders, when masked rebels opened fire in December on a restaurant the city of Pec, killing six Serbian youths. His men also are suspected of shooting at U.S. diplomatic monitors…….” [AP 3-8-99 Footnote 8, my emphasis]

Hajredinaj was also apparently involved in a slaughter of civilians in the town of Glodjane. This time the victims included non-Serbs:

“Glodjane, further west in the Decane area bordering Albania, was fiercely contested by the Serbs and Albanians [during the year prior to the NATO takeover of Kosovo]. In September 1998 the Serbian media centre in Pristina claimed that the bodies of 34 people had been found in a canal there. They were a mixture of Serbian farmers, some gypsies and Albanians suspected of being collaborators. The local commander at the time was Haradinaj, now head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.” (‘Sunday Times’, London September 3, 2000, our emphasis)

How did Ramush Hajredinaj judge whether an Albanian or ‘Gypsy’ was a ‘collaborator’? Did it mean he or she was in the police or army? No, all that was required was to have good relations with Serbian neighbors, or speak out against the creation of a racially pure state, or work for the government, for example, as a forester. [Footnote 1]

When officials met with Thaci and Hajredinaj in Washington, could it be they did not know who these men were? Frankly, that’s unbelievable.

“‘Washington knows what we want,’ he [Hajredinaj] added with a smile. ‘We’ve been clear from the very beginning’” [For full interview, see Footnote 8]

Clearly Haradinaj and Thaci are cut from the same cloth. They are not squabbling because one of them is yearning for multiethnic society. But they are in fact squabbling:.

“Hajredinaj might have damaged his standing by [...a] rash action he undertook on the night of 6-7 July in the village of Streoc, 5km south of Pec. The exact circumstances of his wounding are unclear, but it certainly was not an assassination attempt, as claimed in AAK party press releases. Hajredinaj led a small group, who went in the middle of the night into the family compound of the leader of the Musa clan. The Musas are a powerful clan and have not been on good terms with Hajredinaj for some time. He entered their family compound, armed – which in Albanian code is an insult and an attack – and, although it is unclear who opened fire first, he ended up wounded. Even if his health does not suffer, some may consider his political career to be over as the Albanians now see him as someone who breached the code of honour.” (‘Jane’s Intelligence Review’ September 1, 2000)

Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are part of the Geg culture, also found in Albania. In an interview, Cedda Prlincevic, the former Chief Archivist in Pristina, Kosovo, describes an unusual feature of Geg culture:

“One book has a great hold over Kosovo Albanians. It’s called the ‘Canon of Leke Dukagjiniis’. It’s a 15th century text that spells out codes of behavior. It goes into great detail on how to carry out blood feuds, when and whom it is proper to kill. It lays out the proper methods to use when killing, rules and regulations and so on.

“And this Canon is alive among Albanians today, especially since the fall of communism. This is an intensely tradition-oriented culture. Blood feud is a constant threat for Albanians. Thousands of people in Albania and Kosovo cannot leave their houses because they are being hunted; even a child in the cradle might be marked for death as part of a feud. It is for this reason that Kosovo Albanian houses are often built surrounded by high walls and with gun slits instead of windows..” (From “Why Albanians Fled Kosovo During the NATO Bombing”, at http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/keysa.htm)

When ‘Jane’s Defense’ reports that Haradinaj insulted a powerful clan leader, this was a most serious matter. The insult may have been answered on July 11, 2000 when Sadri Ahmet Sheraj, Haradinaj’s wartime aide, was having a meal in Decani:

“UNMIK police said Sheraj, 46, was killed Tuesday afternoon in a restaurant in Decani by a gunman firing an AK47. UNMIK said the gunman was recognised by people at the scene.

“The killing was believed to be a follow-up to an incident in the home area of Haradinaj, a former guerrilla fighter turned politician. Haradinaj was injured in a grenade attack last Friday in a village near Decani.” (‘Deutsche Presse-Agentur’ July 12, 2000, )

But while Thaci and Haradinaj and their associates may derive their rules of behavior from a medieval Canon, they are fighting over modern prizes – such as the “control of certain petrol stations.” (‘Daily Telegraph’, June 12, 2000)

In other words, they are gangsters.

‘Jane’s Defense Review’ writes:

“[Thaci's] PDK has good links with Albanian exile groups in America, Switzerland and Germany, although the bulk of Thaci’s funding is now believed to come from racketeering and other crime-generated sources.” (‘Jane’s Intelligence Review’ September 1, 2000, my emphasis)

How blase ‘Jane’s’ is – as if it were reporting on networking among Business School grads. Gangsterism has become no big deal in Kosovo.

So is Kosovo simply being run by the Mob?

No, Kosovo is not simply being run by the Mob.

Quoting a secret UN report prepared secretly for Secretary General Kofi Annan, the ‘London Observer’ noted:

“The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of ‘criminal activities – killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and hate-speech’.”

“…Under the heading ‘Activities against minorities, including hate speech’, [KPC leader, former KLA boss Agim] Ceku is criticized for being present at a walk-out staged by Albanian members of the KPC when a speech was translated into Serbo-Croat – the language of the Muslim Slav minority suspected by the Albanians of collaboration with the Serbs.

“The report comments: ‘It was the clear opinion of those present that this was a premeditated action..’” (‘London Observer’ my emphasis)

Intimidation, expulsion of minorities and hate speech – a culture dominated by patriarchal clans – enthusiastic visits by British [fake]“Trotskyist” Vanessa Redgrave and photo-ops for feminist star Hilary Clinton – thousands of teenagers are forced into prostitution – and in the midst of all this, gangland killings. What a mix.

The UN has crossed Al Capone, the Ku Klux Klan and Ms Magazine. The offspring is Weird Fascism.

Poor Kosovo, what else will you suffer?
 
 

By Felix Quigley

Sultan Knish …what sort of a name is that! It is obviously a fake name and unlike Israpundit, I do not like our writers on 4international to use anything other than their real names. All the same, this really made me laugh:

Sultan introducing his blog:

Named one of the Jewish Press’ Most Worthwhile Blogs, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Cited at Front Page Magazine and One Jerusalem and Little Green Footballs and American Thinker and Hot Air
Quoted by Daniel Pipes , Atlas Shrugs, Debbie Schlussel and Tim Blair, Judith Klinghoffer and Michelle Malkin
Referenced by Michael Savage , AM 770 CHQR – The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge , 670 WCBM Sean and Frank and Jim Ball  

But I am a revolutionary socialist, Mr Knish, a Trotskyist, and I do not give two figs for all of that top brass in the Jewish world acknowledgement. They might just all be gullible, and wrong. So I will take what he writes about a known enemy of Israel and see how he fares. Quote from Knish first…what I make of his politics following… 

Knish is talking about the Islamofascist supporter and extreme US Imperialist Brzezinski who (Jews and Serbs alike, please note) had a big say in the destruction of Yugoslavia and in the murder there of many thousands of poor, unarmed and defenceless civilian Serbs and even their decapitation/dismemberment. Check if Knish mentions that!!!

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Zbigniew Brzezinski’s plan was to counter the rise of pro-Soviet left wing regimes with a string of Islamic regimes, countering Marxism with Islamism finally culminating in an Islamic overthrow of the USSR (replacing one monstrous regime with another monstrous regime). His dabbling in Afghanistan would eventually give birth to Taliban rule and Osama Bin Laden and September 11th, something he blames Israel and Neo-Cons for. In Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski backed a policy that would support the Ayatollah Khomeni as America’s new ally. And thus when the hostages were taken the United States waited instead of acting because Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Green Belt strategy required an Islamic victory in Iran.To show its affinity for the Mullahs, the Carter Administration had lifted a 1978 ban on arms sales to Tehran. The exiled Shah was barred from entering the United States to seek medical treatment. The United States even promised to defend Iran against the Soviet Union. Zbigniew Brzezinski met with the Ayatollah Khomeni’s Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and offered the new regime a strategic relationship with the United States. It took five months before a rescue attempt was made and when Zbigniew Brzezinski planned out the disastrous Operation Eagle Claw it was sabotaged from the start by the chains placed on the operation from the Carter White House.The Carter Administration may be gone but the wicked never rest. While Carter himself plays America’s Mullah, piously preaching hate against Israel and supporting terrorist and anti-american regimes around the world from Iran to Hamas to North Korea to Venezuela, Carter associates like Zbigniew Brzezinski do not rest either. Zbigniew Brzezinski continues to hold to a vision of an America allied to Islamic Iran and Hamas and even the Islamic terrorists in Chechneya. Zbigniew Brzezinski is co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya. The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya supports the “Government in Exile” in Chechnya which includes Shamil Basayev, one of those behind the Beslan massacre.

Zbigniew Brzezinski who in 1978 wrote a memo to President Carter claiming that Islamic extremism was not a significant factor in the middle east has not only not retracted it today but continued to claim the very same thing after September 11th, condemning Bush’s comparison of Communism and Islamism and warning that such rhetoric will only enrage moderate Muslims. In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s world, Israel is the obstacle to an ideal American-Islamic alliance bound by some loosey goosey Jimmy Carter style vague faith of the sort that the Ayatollah Khomeni laughed at. And today Zbigniew Brzezinski is endorsing a candidate whom he believes will carry on the same Carter administration policies that the Ayatollah Khomeni mockingly described as “like a headless chicken.”

1. SKcannot help showing his hatred of socialism and the Russian Revolution. Note he does not at any time, or in any way, distinguish between revolutionary socialism and Stalinism. He does not even mention Trotsky and Stalin. He does not state to his readers that there were differences between Lenin and Stalin, and between Trotsky and Stalin. What a fraud this SK is, masquerading as a knowledgeable Jewish man.

2. Why does SK lump Israel and the NeoCons together? The NeoCons are extreme and reactionary American Imperialists. More to show that SK is an American Imperialist dressed up as a Jew. Jews please beware of this mischief of SK. It is extremely damaging to link Israel with the NeoCons.

3. Look at what SK writes here …The United States even promised to defend Iran against the Soviet Union. Zbigniew Brzezinski met with the Ayatollah Khomeni’s Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and offered the new regime a strategic relationship with the United States….Yet SK is a big supporter of the US and obviously an extreme anti-communist!

4. Look also at this which SK writes above…As he did then, Zbigniew Brzezinski remains far more interested in using Islamic regimes allied to the United States to checkmate a revitalized Russia thereby protecting his native Poland than in protecting America and the world against Islamic terrorism…You see the trick SK is playing on his gullible readers. He is creating the big bad wolf syndrome but in fact it is George Bush who today, and for the past 8 years, has been doing exactly that. It is in fact the policy and programme of the US Government to attack and to discipline China, Russia and India, indeed the whole world, and to bring the whole world under the control of the US Imperialism. But SK is really a big supporter of US Imperialism, a supposed friend of the Jews but in reality a supporter of that very Bush US Imperialism, setting out to destroy Israel (which is the end result of the creation by Bush of a Palestinian state)

5. And note in the above that SK says not ONE word about Yugoslavia, the destruction of a sovereign state, by all branches and Presidents of US Imperialism over the past 20 years, which involved the murder –  by poisoning -  of the elected President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic.

So that is part of the politics of Sultan Knish. This is the man who has been welcomed on board of the once great Israpundit site by its editor Ted Belman.

I think it tells us a lot about Israpundit today and its role in the Jewish movement.

These are my criticisms:

Obama is a Fascist type of politician. But he is not alone. Israpundit has spent acres of print over the past 2 months in attacking and exposing Obama. I am not saying do not do this. But they have missed the main item on Obama, and that is his similarity to these people:

George Bush Snr

George Bush Jnr

Clinton the man

Clinton the woman

Carter

Reagan

And all other US Presidents that I have read about.

The purpose of every US President is to advance the interests of US Capitalism, which in today’s world represents US Imperialism. THAT IS WHAT SULTAN KNISH AND TED BELMAN TODAY ARE HIDING. All of these US Presidents are in their foreign policy Fascist in the extreme, and the destruction of Yugoslavia combined with the intended destruction of Israel shows their Fascism.

The focus on Obama is a strategy to hide what Bush and Rice are actually doing THIS VERY MINUTE to Israel.

The problem AT THIS VERY MINUTE is not Obama but it is Bush, Rice, the whole of the US Establishment, and it is also the continuation in power of Olmert, Livni and Barak, who THIS VERY MINUTE are engaging in the negotiating away of the heritage of Israel.

You see neither Knish or Belman are capable, and therefore do not, address that problem, which is the central problem.

We on 4international are Trotskyists, we will not allow either Belman, Knish, or anybody else to make snide attacks on the history of revolutionary socialism or on the honour of Leon Trotsky, or the falsification of the history of Trotsky in relation to the Jews in the 1930s. That is what Knish has done above and that is what Belman of Israpundit is supporting. Both Knish and Belman are part of the US Imperialist machine first and foremost and that cannot and will not go unchallenged by us on 4international. They have NO programme to place in front of the Jewish people which can save the Jewish people. But we on 4international WILL NOT BE SILENCED. Because we indeed do have the programme which can save the great Jewish people which our revolutionary socialist cadre is going to expound over the next weeks, and forget censorship, we will not be silenced in the Jewish movement. 

Posted by Nathan Pearlstein

Soon, in all parks and public transport vehicles, a new inscription appeared: “Entry forbidden to all Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and dogs.” The Ministry of the Interior, led by Andrija Artukovic, issued the following decree: “All the Serbs and the Jews residing in Zagreb, the Capital of Croatia, must leave the town within 12 hours. Any citizen found to have given them shelter will be immediately executed on the spot.”

The Vatican’s Holocaust

The sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century

By Avro Manhattan

Avro Manhattan (1914-1990)

About the Author:

Avro Manhattan was the world’s foremost authority on Roman Catholicism in politics. A resident of London, during WW II he operated a radio station called “Radio Freedom” broadcasting to occupied Europe. He was the author of over 20 books including the best-seller The Vatican in World Politics, twice Book-of-the-Month and going through 57 editions. He was a Great Briton who risked his life daily to expose some of the darkest secrets of the Papacy. His books were #1 on the Forbidden Index for the past 50 years!!

The Vatican’s Holocaust – Revealed at Last!

A sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century. Startling revelations of forced conversions, mass murder of non-Catholics, Catholic extermination camps, disclosures of Catholic clergy as commanders of concentration camps; documented with names, dates, places, pictures and eyewitness testimony.

Contents

For more info on the Holocaust see U.S. News and World Report.

Holocaust Archive Pictures

Croatian war criminal arrested in Argentina

Pope to “Beatify” Archbishop Stepinac

Published by: Ozark Books

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by Felix Quigley

Why has it been so well hidden that the state of Croatia, backed by the US and EU Imperialist powers, carried out a massive act of ethnic cleansing in the Krajina? Rather more to the point is: how has it been hidden?

Why did the “truth seeking” journalists of the world not move in and do their job, simply report?

These are important questions to ask in dealing with articles which have recently appeared on http://4international.wordpress.com

see

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/tudjman-the-croatian-ustashe-nazi-genocide-of-krajina-serbs-part-2/#more-121

and

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/tudjman-the-croatian-ustashe-nazi-genocide-of-krajina-serbs-in-1991/#more-110

and

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/izetbegovics-vision-for-bosnia-an-islamist-fascist-state/#more-107

In an article, “Joe Lieberman Apologist for the Fascist KLA”, Jared Israel wrote about this problem about why news of what was really happening in Yugoslavia did not leak out. What was going on in the Krajina region, and why was exposure not given to the murders of defenceless Serb people who lived there, and who had lived there for at least a thousand years?

 We have a clue to how this happened by looking at a parallel event in Yugoslavia, that was the whole events surrounding Srebrenica. That town has become known as the place where “the Serbs carried out a horrific genocide against Bosnian Muslims”. Except that they did not carry out such a massacre at all! But there was a prolonged killing, adding up to a real massacre, of ordinary Serb people, who lived in or close to the “Safe Area” set up by the UN in the Srebrenica area. You get the drift, a massacre IS carried out, the Serbs are blamed for a massacre. It seems the bolder the lie the more successful it becomes.

So to understand how the ethnic cleansing of the Krajina by the US backed Tudjman forces was hidden, it is good to look at this piece of writing by Jared Israel, which appeared on the website Emperors New Clothes. We give an extract but as always we provide the url so that you can read the full article.

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Why should people read articles challenging this massacre story? After all, it’s consistent with what one has been told: that Srebrenica was a safe haven where the UN was supposed to protect Muslims from supposedly murderous Serbs; that the Muslims, portrayed in the media as an oppressed group, were moderate and tolerant while the Serbs were supposedly fanatical Muslim-haters with a Hitlerian vision of a mono-ethnic state; that therefore it was no surprise that when the Serbs took Srebrenica, they supposedly killed thousands of Muslims as fast as they could. Why should you read material challenging the Srebrenica massacre story when you, dear reader, have limited time and you may have read nothing in the media that would cast doubt on any of the above? My answer is, that is precisely why you should be skeptical about the massacre story.  Permit me to explain.The credibility of the official massacre story depends on the credibility of media coverage of Yugoslavia in general and of what happened in Eastern Bosnia, including Srebrenica, in particular.  If that coverage has been objective, why should one entertain the possibility that the entire media has manufactured or gone along with lies about a supposed giant massacre?  How might the media objectively cover a bitter conflict like the one in Bosnia?  First, it would endeavor to fairly report what each side said, giving them equal time.  Then it would investigate claims.  For example, if each side accused the other of spreading hate propaganda, the media might publish each side’s claims and then compare those claims to samples of each side’s propaganda, both written material and what was said at rallies and in mass meetings.  If each accused the other of atrocities, the media could publish the accounts of both sides, and then do hard investigative work to see who – if anyone – was telling the truth. It would hunt for lies, because what people lie about is most revealing.If you are like most, you have no idea what the Serbs said about what happened in and around Srebrenica from the time the Bosnian war started in the spring of 1992 until the so-called fall of Srebrenica in 1995.  No idea at all.  And therein lies the evidence that the media cannot be trusted about Srebrenica: because in fact, the Serbs said, and published, a great deal about Muslim extremist atrocities against them, but the Western media published virtually none of it. What was published by the Western media stands out for the same reason that gold stands out, because it is rare. [1]

Let me give you an example. 

In June 1993 the United Nations published a 132-page report entitled “Memorandum on War Crimes and Crimes of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia (communes of Bratunac, Skelani and Srebrenica) committed against the Serbian population from April 1992 to April 1993.” Note the dates: April 1992 was the very beginning of the war in Bosnia.  The Serbs charged that from the outset of the war the so-called Bosnian government (they say it was a government run by a faction of Muslims, the extremist faction) had a policy of genocide against Serbs.

You never heard of this document? I am not surprised.  I checked with the Lexis-Nexis media search engine. I could not find a single English-language newspaper or TV news program that reported that it existed. 

The point is, in order for the public to come to any judgment about the accuracy of this UN document, it had to know the document existed and what was in it. To that end, the media of course should have reported the existence of said document and what it charged, with extensive quotations in newspapers of record such as the New York Times, and it should have seriously investigated the horrific charges. 

The undeniable fact that most people, at least (but not only) in the NATO countries, are completely ignorant of what the Serbs wrote and said about Muslim extremist crimes against Serbs in Eastern Bosnia, including Srebrenica, is sufficient to make a prima facie case that media reporting concerning Eastern Bosnia, including Srebrenica, has been anti-Serb propaganda, not news.  Thus there is every reason for you to be skeptical concerning media claims about a supposed huge massacre by Serbs in Srebrenica.  By suppressing virtually everything said and written by the Serbian side in the bitter Bosnian conflict, the media has perjured itself.  Would you accept, on faith, the word of a perjured witness?

Below are links to the pdf files of the UN report so that you may read it, only 12 years late.

Jared Israel
Editor, Emperor’s Clothes 

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Memorandum on War Crimes and Crimes of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia (communes of Bratunac, Skelani and Srebrenica) committed against the Serbian population from April 1992 to April 1993.

A/48/177 and S/25835

Item 115 (c) of the preliminary list
Human Rights Questions: Human Rights Situations and Reports of Special Rapporteurs and Representatives

2 June 1993

Note: Four sections of the UN document repeat the same three introductory pages, followed by the appropriate texts.   

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Comments by Petar Makara

Consulting Editor, Emperor’s Clothes. The horror that Bosnian Serbs suffered at the hands of Muslims in the vicinity of Srebrenica is no secret. The Yugoslav State Commission for War Crimes submitted a 132 page study presenting this Serbian suffering as early as May 24, 1993 to the United Nations Security Council. Representatives of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic) were not allowed to submit similar documents because  Republika Srpska was not recognized by the United Nations. Yugoslavia, as a UN member state (since 1945) and one of its  founding nations, was allowed to submit this document. The Security Council admitted the study as an official United Nations document. The document was given UN id numbers A/46/171 and S/25635 and dated 2 June 1993. Many UN documents, crucial for understanding the civil wars in Bosnia in 1990’s, were, on American insistence, declared classified. But this document was not. Its distribution was marked “General.” Any Western journalist could have stopped by room GA57 in the basement of the U.N. Building at the corner of 46th Street and 1st Ave. in New York and gotten a copy. Or they could just called the U.N. Public Inquiry Office at (212) 963-4475 and ordered it.If the contents of this document are false, why didn’t the Western media report it and refute it?  Its suppression eloquently proclaims its validity and the dishonesty of the media that suppressed the very news of its existence.We present it in its entirety. More. It is scanned in original form. You can print the PDF files and you will have a photo-copy of the original.– Petar Makara
Emperor’s Clothes***Introduction
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-intro.pdf 
Pages 1 – 21 of the document. Historical background. Serbian suffering in the region. Repeated acts of hostility toward the Serbian population in and around Srebrenica, this time in the 1990s. A list of recent Serbian victims of Muslim crime. The list of Serbian victims
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-victims.pdf 
Pages 22 – 40 of the document. Bosnian Serbs from in and around Srebrenica murdered by Bosnian Muslims from April 20, 1992 to April 5, 1993, organized by date, victim’s first name, father’s name (in parenthesis), last name, year of birth, place of birth, county. Massacres
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-massacred.pdf 
Pages 41 – 51 of the document. General description of the crimes committed: Types of torture and murder, plunder of Serbian property, cleansing of the Serbian population. Muslim perpetrators
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-perpetrators.pdf 
Pages 52 – 80 of the document. Bosnian Muslim perpetrators. Their full names, types of crime committed. Places and dates of their crimes. Victims’ statements – part 1
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-statements-1.pdf 
Pages 81 – 104 of the document. Some surviving Serbian victims tell, in their own words, what they went through and how they survived. Victims’ statements – part 2
http://emperor.vwh.net/sreb/un-statements-2.pdf 
Pages 105 – 132 of the document. Continuation: surviving Serbian victims tell what they went through. end quote herehttp://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/mem.htmend [end quote here]

One of the biggest weapons which the Fascists of Croatia and the Islamofascists of Bosnia and Albania had in their hands was the support of the main Jewish organizations in America. The whole story of the interconnection between America and these national groups in the Balkans was well put in this extract from Diana Johnstone’s book Fool’s Crusade. From Diana Johnstone’s Fool’s Crusade, Pluto Press 2002, p. 68-70:This book is a fantastic source for understanding some of the truth about Yugoslavia. Diana Johnstone is a hated figure with Kamm, Hoare, Harry’s Place and all of that viciously pro Islamofascist group which exists in the British Media, which is now encompassing the American and Canadian Media in the form of Fascist-supporting fake “Lefts” like Naomi Klein and her Husband, and many others.

The following is a useful extract from that book:

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Creating a Public Opinion

On 7 July 1991, under the auspices of the European Community, the leaders of Slovenia and Croatia agreed (in the so-called “Brioni Declaration”) to suspend their declarations of independence for three months to allow negotiations toward a peaceful solution. However, during this supposed cooling-off period a major unilateral step was taken in the most decisive of all wars in Yugoslavia: the public relations war. On 12 August 1991, the Croatian government hired the American public relations firm Ruder Finn Global Public Affairs to “develop and carry out strategies and tactics for communication with members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate as well as with officials of the U.S. government including the State Department, the National Security Council and other relevant agencies and departments of the U.S. government as well as with American and international news media“. On 12 November 1991, Ruder Finn’s contract was renewed to include lobbying in relation to diplomatic recognition, sanctions, and embargoes, as well as briefings for officials of the first Bush administration and preparation of special background material, press releases, both reactive and proactive articles and letters to the editors to appear in major newspapers, briefings for journalists, columnists, and commentators. In January and February 1992, Ruder Finn organized trips to Croatia for U.S. Congressmen. The United States recognized Croatia as an independent state on 7 April 1992.

Many people’s first impressions of the conflict were influenced by the deluge of press releases sent to Congressmen and media. Video clips with frightful images of death and destruction were distributed worldwide with commentaries designed to support the idea that the fighting taking place in Croatia was part of a deliberate plan to create “Greater Serbia” by the conquering Croatia.

On 23 June 1992, Izetbegovic’s government in Sarajevo in turn signed a contract with Ruder Finn in order to promote a stronger leadership role for the United States in the Balkans. To this end, the agency undertook an impressive array of actions, notably setting up a “Bosnia Crisis Communication Center” in contact with American, British, and French media; media appearance coaching for Bosnian foreign minister Haris Silajdzic; sending press releases to U.S. Congressmen and “Fax Updates” on developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina to over 300 addresses, including the most important world media and parliamentarians; writing 17 letters to be signed by Izetbegovic and Silajdzic and addressed to top world representatives at international conferences; organizing personal contacts between Silajdzic and Al Gore, Margaret Thatcher, and other influential personalities, including 17 U.S. Senators; placing articles on in the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and so on.

Siladjdzic revealed the effects of his Ruder Finn training in subsequent conversation with the French writer Bernard-Henry Levy, who had undertaken volunteer public relations for Izetbegovic in Paris. Silajdzic boasted naively of being a “star” in the United States, and claimed that he was able to change millions of votes by merely appearing on television. Silajdzic startled Levy by reproaching him for failing to exploit sufficiently the “propaganda” theme of “genocide“. This showed his “American side”, commented Levy.

Eighteen months after taking the Croatian contract, Ruder Finn was able to boast to having “developed a reputation as the international public relations agency with the greatest experience and involvement with the crisis in the Balkans. Our work has helped put Ruder Finn on the map in Washington, DC, and internationally.” The agency claimed to have gained “dozens of close contacts in Congress and among the news media”.

In October 1992, Ruder Finn took up the job of public relations for the ethnic Albanian separatists in the Serbian province of Kosovo.

In March 1993, as hostilities sharpened between Croatia and Muslim forces disputing territory in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Croatian government turned to another American agency, Waterman and Associates, to stave off eventual Muslim accusations that Croatia shared equal responsibility with Serbia. The campaigns on behalf of Tudjman’s Croatia enjoyed financial and political support from Croatian E­migre organizations in the United States and Canada.

In April 1993, French television journalist Jacques Merlino visited the Washington headquarters of Ruder Finn Global Public Affairs to interview the man in charge of the Balkan contracts, James Harff. Merlino asked Harff what he considered his proudest achievement in this operation. The answer: “Having succeeded in putting Jewish opinion on our side.” The image of both Croats and Bosnian Muslims risked being tarnished by their involvement in the persecution of Jews during World War II. “Our challenge was to turn that around”, Harff told Merlino, and this had been done thanks to the “camps” story.

In the first days of August 1992, the Long Island newspaper Newsday published reports from its Bonn correspondent Roy Gutman, based on interviews in Zagreb, telling of horrendous conditions in Serb-run internment camps in Bosnia. Seeing the potential impact of comparison with Nazi “death camps”, Ruder Finn immediately contacted three major Jewish organizations, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the American Jewish Congress, suggesting they publicly protest. They did. This launched the demonization of Serbs as the new Nazis. In 1993, Ruder Finn was awarded the Silver Medal of the Public Relations Society of America in the category “crisis communication“.

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Why did the Jewish leaders in America swallow all of the lies spun to them by the American ruling class? Perhaps the truth, and the only truth, is because we live in a class society and because the dominant ideas are the ideas of the ruling class. They certainly have the means of dissemination of information (and disinformation) at their disposal and every clarification has to be conducted in a major and serious struggle against those dominant ideas.

The whole world is full of this single truth, well known to the traditional Marxist movement, ever since Lenin wrote his pamphlet “What is to be Done”, which we have referred to on our website 4international.

An example of this truth picked at random (there are thousands daily) is a speech by Israeli MK Eltad.

In an article “The fate of Sderot is the fate of Jerusalem”, written on 13 November, 2007, he said:

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What advice can we give to the refugees from Sderot? Don’t buy an apartment in Kfar Saba, Ra’anana or Hadera: they are within range; and if Lieberman’s twisted plan to transfer the Triangle area and Wadi Ara comes to fruition, then avoid Afula, as well. For the moment, it appears that Mitzpeh Ramon is relatively safe and Yerucham, too. The garbage dump of Chiria (renamed for Sharon) and the industrial park of Ramat Chovav with its stench are, at least for the time being, safe havens.

I really don’t know why I’m writing this. Even before the withdrawal from Gaza, we warned about what would happen to Sderot, and the people of Israel didn’t listen. Why should they listen now? Olmert and his buddies are pushing Israel towards the abyss on the assumption that Israelis are stupid and prefer not to hear the warnings. 

Those who succeeded in reducing the number of students in a classroom from 40 to 20 were the members of Hamas.

Anyone who has studied the history of the Jews in Europe before their destruction and was unable to understand why they did not escape when they could may understand now. Citizens of Israel are allowing their leaders to establish a terrorist state in the heart of their country and they’re closing their eyes to the writing on the wall. Against all logic, they hope that the evil will not befall them and that Jerusalem will not face what Sderot faces.

And why will it not? Does anybody in Israel believe that Abu Mazen has control over any area beyond his office walls? The Palestinians themselves call him “President of the Mukata’a” (his compound) in order to delineate the borders of his influence. The PLO has disintegrated completely. Fatah does not accept his authority and its splinter groups are under Iranian influence. Most of his administration’s bureaucrats have moved to Jordan and gangs rule the streets. And this is the Abu Mazen to whom Olmert wants to give Jerusalem and Tulkarem and Kalkilya. Suddenly, he has a “partner.”

The most corrupt and least able of Israeli prime ministers has chosen an irrelevant Palestinian leader as his partner just to stay in office a little longer. There are more supporters of Abu Mazen in Olmert’s Cabinet than there are among the Palestinians. There are more supporters of Olmert in Ramallah than there are in the State of Israel.

And the Hamas leaders are rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation. With these two, and the assistance of Condoleezza Rice, their victory is assured.

3 Kislev 5768 / 13 November 07

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Eltad does not really understand how simple is the problem because his own background militates against it. But the real reason that Olmert gets away with it, and likely will get away with it, is the same reason they sold all the Big Lies about Srebrenica and the Krajina. The dominant ideas are the ideas of the ruling class and these ideas can only be fought through an ideological struggle. As far as I know Eltad remains at the level of an individual, and a bourgeois individual (in the sense of subscribing to the non-class understanding of society)

So if the American ruling class hold the powers of persuasion in their hands, a more or less total control, then what kind of message do they impart. Not far to look or hard to find, it is everywhere, but let us take this from a leading member of the American ruling class, who also has great influence among these Jewish organizations. His name is Joseph Lieberman. In a debate on The Guardian he wrote the following:

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Democratic US senator Joe Lieberman, who introduced the Kosovo Self Defence Act on March 25

If, after extended air strikes, it becomes clear that Mr Milosevic intends to continue his war of aggression, we must have an answer to the question of what next? The bill we are proposing provides us with such an answer, and an opportunity to send an uncompromising message to Mr Milosevic: we will not stand idly by and allow him to brutalise the people of Kosovo any longer.

This bill is premised on our belief that Nato ground forces will not be put into Kosovo unless the Serbs and Kosovans reach a peace agreement. If we adopt that stance, though, and Serbian aggression continues, we have an obligation to allow the Kosovans to defend themselves. Our legislation, by providing aid to the Kosovan military forces, would give them a fair chance to fight for their families and their future.

I am aware that this proposal will raise some concerns. I recall that when I first raised the idea of training and equipping the Bosnian army, many critics told us that we would destabilise an entire region or accelerate an arms race. In the end, I think those concerns were shown to be misguided.

Training and equipping the Bosnians enhanced the stability of the area and helped end the Bosnian war. The situation in Kosovo is different. But that does not diminish the suffering of the Kosovan people subjected to Serb aggression, nor negate their right to defend their families from the threat of genocide.

From the Guardian. Should the West arm the Kosovan Liberation Army?, Friday April 7, 1999.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/09/balkans1

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This is a classic example of what we referred to above. Lieberman talks about the threat of “genocide” (That is the Big Lie) from the Serbs towards what he calls the “Kosovans”, but this is not understood as simply “any” US Congressman talking thus, this is a “Jewish” American Congress man talking. Exactly the point that Ruder Finn was making!

Jared Israel and Eric Garris writing on 20 August, 2000 said of this (Lieberman’s quote appearing first):

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“[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles … Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values.” (Sen. Lieberman quoted in the ‘Washington Post,’ April 28, 1999)

In April, 1999, during the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, Senators Joe Lieberman (Democrat) and John McCain (Republican) proposed legislation to arm the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA. This was the “Kosova Self-Defense Act.” We have posted the text of the statement Lieberman made at the time below.

Here are a few observations that may assist in putting Joe Lieberman’s actions in perspective.

There is virtually no doubt that at the time Lieberman was calling for a law to arm the KLA, the US was already covertly providing arms and training to that secessionist-terrorist group.

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http://emperor.vwh.net/articles/garris/duringthe.htm

And indeed the message that McCain and Lieberman were transmitting into the American people through their very strong propaganda outlets was indeed that. The Serbs “were evil”. The KLA were a “national liberation force”, as was the Islamofascist philosophy underpinning Izetbegovic (also “progressive”, they said). Lieberman is quite specific on that above.

Hence this was the message taken up by the American Jewish leaders. They in turn became the messengers and so the ideology of the ruling class is reinforced. And who was there to challenge this in America? Well nobody actually. There was Jared Israel, Francisco Gil-White and a few others. But they all remained at the level of individuals and individual effort.

What is going on in these earth changing events? Why do people act thus? The Jewish leaders themselves are not fully conscious of the forces working through themselves. They have been groomed by history and by events you could say. This is not a new thought by any means.

It was in 1852 in the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonapart that Marx wrote this, giving a clue to why and what these Jewish American leaders did in recent years to the Serbs:

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce…Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

[end quote here]

Jews coming to America found in the country a respite from antisemitism. They were actually finding the freedom brought about by the great American Revolution.

Nothing however remains static and the great freedoms of the American and French Revolutions are not at all represented by the American ruling class today. The American ruling class, as the foremost Imperialist power in the world, is very definitely not a promoter of freedom. But these American despots, like Lieberman, have not forgotten the words of freedom. Just that they now use them to apply to the KLA, to Tudjman and to Izetbegovic. These Lieberman words of freedom are quite elastic and can even be extended to a Holocaust Denier like the disciple of Hajj Amin el Husseini, that is, Palestinian Arab Mahmud Abbas, and of course Jewish leaders will lap that up too. And tell other Jews whom they influence that it is so.

It is good to be a little sceptical towards the “words” of the likes of Lieberman.

Consider what might have happened if Jewish American leaders had not followed Ruder Finn, McCain and Lieberman, and did some investigation as to what was really taking place in Yugoslavia in the late 80s and 90s. Of course they were incapable of such independent investigation. They were on the same wavelength as Clinton, who remember had a mother named Cassidy, an Irish person who probably like the Jews found some sanctuary in the United States. They all swallowed the evil ideology of the American ruling class, and in fact became the ruling class.

So if the American Jewish leaders had not given their huge influence on the issue of genocide and holocaust to promoting the Big Lie that the Serbs were guilty of “Holocaust and of Genocide” there would have been other implications.

It was not all that hard to do. They might have simply said:

“You say the Serbs are guilty of genocide and of running concentration camps, as in the Holocaust. Show us the evidence please and let us consider and evaluate the evidence”.

Then the American Jewish leaders and the very influential Jewish community in America might have opened up a discussion in America that would have shot a cannon through the lies of the American Presidents and State Departments in each era.

Those implications might then be:

9-11 might not have happened

The position of Islamofascism in the United States, Canada and Britain would be much weaker and groups like CAIR more exposed

Likely Mark Steyn might at the present not be facing prosecution and Hirsi Ali might still be in Europe fighting the necessary fight there, etc etc.

(The 9-11 assertion above is not far fetched. The lies of Lieberman et al meant that Bin Laden could use the patronage of Izetbegovic in Bosnia in order to assemble the organization that made 9-11 possible. One principled journalist at least had the knowledge which could have been used:

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/eve-ann-prentice/ )

The lessons of what happened in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo are really the lessons in how Fascism is to be confronted today. Fascism is a modern phenomenon, a precise term used in connection with the growth of extra-parliamentary forces in the period of the decline of the capitalist system, and their conscious use by the rulers of that system.

But the forces of Fascism were actually weak in these states, Croatia, Bosnia and of Kosovo. There was no mass movement behind these elements like you had in Italy under Mussolini and in Germany under the Nazis. What gave them all their power was that the Imperialists, especially the Imperialists of the US, of Germany and of Britain, weighed in to support and promote these Fascist forces. This made them very strong indeed. The sole reason was to promote the strategic interests of the US and EU Imperialist classes against their enemies. In that regard Israel is but a little blip on the map for these evil strategists, and Yugoslavia will turn out to be like a Sunday School picnic in comparision to what lies ahead, as Capitalism in its death agony will try to capture the Chinese, Indian and Russian markets by any means necessary. It could be by means of promoting Islamofascism and other forms of Fascism when it is apt to do so.

Remember that future when you look at the photographs of Serbs murdered by Tudjman, backed by the US and EU Imperialists in the articles mentioned above.

Compiled by 4International writers: Nathan Pearlstein, Joshua Rosenberg, Max Rosenthal & Shlomo Baum

The late Croatian pro-Ustashe Nazi and Hitler-loving, Holocaust-denying antisemitic president, Franjo Tudjman, wrote in his 1988 Croatian version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, entitled: “Wastelands of Historical Truth”(aka “Wastelands of Historical Reality”) the following:

“The establishment of Hitler’s New Order could be justified by the need to be rid of the Jews, as well as to correct the French-British sin of the (post WW1) Versailles setup” and… “Genocidal violence is a natural phenomenon in harmony with the societal and mythologically Divine nature. Genocide is not only permitted it is also recommended, even commanded by the Word of the Almighty, whenever it is useful for the survival or the restoration of the earthly kingdom of the chosen nation, or for the preservation and spreading of its one and only correct faith”.

The prestigious US-based publication “Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy” in its January 1993 edition, wrote the following:

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Tudjman, at the first convention of the Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica: HDZ), on February 26, 1990, said, in the presence of more than 100 Ustashi war criminals who had escaped the law courts and fled to international havens after World War II: “The Independent State of Croatia [ie: the World War II Croatian Ustashe Nazi state] was not only a mere Quisling creation, but also an expression of the historical aspirations of the Croatian people for an independent state of their own and recognition of international factors–the Government of Hitler’s Germany in this case.”

Tudjman delivered a speech to the Croatian Sabor (parliament) on the occasion of the proclamation of the Republic of Croatia on December 22, 1990. In the Constitution he proposed, and which was adopted, the Serbs lost their nation status within Croatia, and were relegated to the status of a national minority. The official war against the Serbs had been resumed.

Even before Croatia became independent, the Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs, Martin Spegelj, advised his colleagues: “We are in the war with [ie: against] the Army [Yugoslav Army:JNA] Should anything happen, kill them all in the streets, in their homes, through hand grenades, fire pistols into their bellies, women, children …We will deal with [the Croatian Serb Krajina town of] Knin by butchering.”

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And here is proof that Martin Spegelj’s verbal threats against the Serbs were not merely bluster or sabre rattling. [photos courtesy of Julia Gorin's blog http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=1527]

Zoran Pavlovic and his sister Zorica were killed along with their entire family on November 19, 1991, by retreating Croatian forces. A view of Zorica reveals how really brutally she was murdered. Her skull was also crushed. (Photos by Goran Mikic, Reuters)

 This photograph shows a Serbian victim of Franjo Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Nazi troops.  The victim’s name was Zoran Pavlovic and he was axed to death by modern-day Croatian “skull crushers”, killed on November 19, 1991, at 74 Nikole Demonje Street, Vukovar, Croatia. He was positively identified by surviving relatives. These revisited Holocaust crimes against the Serbs were discounted by the Western corporate controlled media as “Serb paranoia”, however these photographs clearly reveal the demonic nature of such Croatian Ustashe Nazi war crimes.

The above photo shows Serbian victims, Radosav Pavic and Velimir Trajkovic (both wearing red). The other victims are Zorica Pavlovic, her brother Zoran, mother Nada and Milojka Pavlovic. As Croatian forces withdrew from Vukovar on 15 and 16 November 1991, they dragged Serbian civilians from the cellars where they were hiding, and massacred them. These Serbs were axed to death in a courtyard, after being dragged from the cellar at 74 Nikola Demonja Street in Borovo-naselje, near Vukovar. All axed to death by Croatian Ustashe “skullcrushers”, sending a clear message to the Serbs that the Ustashe beast was not dead.

Marko Attila Hoare, the British pro-Imperialist, pro-NATO, “Left” phony, pro-IslamoFascist Izetbegovic supporter, revisionist Balkans “historian” at Cambridge, apologist for neo-Ustashe Nazis Franjo Tudjman and Stipe Mesic, handsomely paid ex-NATO employee of the Hague ICTY Kangaroo Court and fellow traveller of yet another pro-NATO, pro-Imperialist, pro-IslamoFascist Izetbegovic supporter and  ”Left” phony going by the name of Oliver Kamm is part of the circle in Great Britain attempting to whitewash and cover-up this monumental Western-sponsored crime against humanity.

Marko Attila Hoare has publicly gone on record as  endorsing and justifying  Tudjman’s brutal neo-Ustashe mass murder and ethnic cleansing operation of 250,000 to 300,000 Krajina Serbs on August 4, 1995 – dubbed “Operation Storm” – as being “morally justified” for Tudjman’s Croatia to have committed!! Attila Hoare even has an Orwellian “Newspeak” type of article on his blog entitled “How Croatia and the US Prevented Genocide with Operation Storm”!! Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, would probably blush at such a brazen “Big Lie” type of title!!

Of course, Hoare will protest that he (supposedly) condemns Tudjman’s horrendous genocidal atrocities against the Krajina Serbs by telling you that: 

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“I am proud to say that I have worked for an organization that has been bringing the Croat war-criminals involved to justice – the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. I entirely support the ICTY’s prosecution of Ante Gotovina and other Croats for war-crimes against Serbs during Operation Storm”.

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But of course, Hoare is being disingenuous as usual. Why? Because – apart from the indisputable fact that the Hague ICTY Kangaroo Court is owned and run by the US and NATO governments (as they themselves have admitted) - in the very same post on the pro-Izetbegovic, pro-Tudjman, anti-Serbian,  phony “Leftist” British website known as “Harry’s Place”, Hoare qualifies his statement by writing:

“For the record, I entirely supported Croatia’s right to liberate its  occupied territories from the Serb occupying forces… I’ll go further: Croatia was legally and morally obliged to launch Operation Storm…”

Hoare - whilst deliberately downplaying and minimizing the enormity of the genocidal atrocities perpetrated by neo-Ustasha Croatian leader Franjo Tudjman against the Krajina Serbs during “Operation Storm” - by lying through his teeth about the number of Krajina Serbs murdered -  wrote this recently on his own blog publicly justifying and endorsing “Operation Storm”:

[start quote]

“…for despite all the crimes against Serb civilians that accompanied Operation Storm, the fact remains that it was an entirely necessary, legitimate military action that should rightly be celebrated.”

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A neo-Ustashe Nazi mass murder and ethnic cleansing campaign against 250,000 to 300,000 innocent civilians - the likes of which had not been seen in Europe since World War 2,  should - according to Hoare’s twisted view of morality - “rightly be celebrated”?!!

For publicly endorsing and justifying Tudjman’s brutal neo-Ustasha genocide and ethnic cleansing of almost the entire population of Krajina Serbs from 1991 to 1995 - documented even by Hoare’s favorites over at the UN and EU- Hoare will forever stand condemned in the annals of history as an apologist for Croatian Ustashe Nazi war crimes and genocide.

Hoare, even to this day still maintains the Tudjman neo-Ustashe Nazi line that the 250,000 to 300,000 Krajina Serbs during “Operation Storm” were not  brutally expelled or fleeing for their lives in the face of Tudjman’s Croatian Ustashe Nazi terror, but Hoare insinuates that they all voluntarily left Krajina en masse, at the instructions of Belgrade.

In support of this utterly ludicrous and totally untenable Tudjman neo-Ustashe Nazi line, absolving Tudjman and his HDZ government for any responsibility of the ethnic cleansing of between 250,000 to 300,000 people, Hoare misrepresents and twists the meaning of the words of a Krajina Serbian army officer who laments that an order was given to militarily retreat from Krajina - which obviously necessitated the evacuation of the civilian population out of harm’s way - when it was clear that Milosevic would not send in the powerful Yugoslav Army to assist the Krajina Serbs.

This happened after Milosevic was threatened by then US ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, that the US and NATO would immediately begin a massive bombing campaign against Serbia if Milosevic intervened in order to save the Krajina Serbs from military defeat. Since the Krajina Serbian army could not possibly leave the Serbian civilians at the mercy of Tudjman’s genocidal neo-Ustashe troops, then of course the population had to be evacuated!To suggest that the Krajina Serbian leadership should have done otherwise would of course be absurd, and Hoare knows it. 

This order to militarily retreat in the face of overwhelming US and Croatian military firepower co-ordinated from both the ground and the air against Krajina Serbian army positions, is absolutely not the same thing as 250,000 to 300,000 civilian Krajina Serbs fleeing for their lives in the face of the onslaught of Tudjman’s genocidal Croatian neo-Ustashe Nazi army!!

If the Serbian civilian population of Krajina had not fled for their lives they would have been murdered by Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Nazi troops. Hoare definitely knows this to be true, which is why he also writes the following in order to escape his own logical absurdity created by his morally reprehensible defense of - and apologia for -Tudjman’s murderous “Operation Storm”:

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“This does not mean that Croatia was innocent in the exodus of the Krajina Serb population. According to the Hague indictments of Gotovina and of Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak the Croatian Army killed and terrorised Serb civilians and burned and plundered Serb homes and property, while Croatian broadcasts encouraged the Serb civilian population to leave. These are, of course, the charges of the Prosecution; it remains to be seen whether the Tribunal will convict the indictees. Nevertheless, Croatia undoubtedly encouraged the Serb exodus by brutal means. Had there been no evacuation by the Krajina Serb authorities, the death-toll would undoubtedly have been greater.”

[end quote]

Tudjman’s onslaught of terror against the Krajina Serbian civilian population – a monumental Nazi style of crime against humanity -  has been amply documented even by Hoare’s favorites over at the UN and EU – but hardly ever publicized by the Western corporate- controlled media.

Hoare also disingenuously refers to the Krajina province as “Serb-occupied territories” as if the Serbs who had lived there for over 500 years since the late 15th Century – in Hoare’s warped revisionist view of history - somehow “occupied” and “invaded” Croatian territory. Hoare, of course, is either grossly misinformed on Balkans history  – or – is outright lying. We at 4International favor the latter explanation since Hoare could not possibly be that stupid and ignorant of history.

The Krajina province historically never belonged to Croatia, having been established by Austria-Hungary as the “Vojna Krajina” (“Military Frontier”) in the 16th Century against the invading Ottoman Turkish Empire, where all male Krajina Serbs  between the ages of 18 and 60 were required to do military service and defend the military frontier against the invading Turks whenever they were called to do so by the Austro-Hungarian authorities. 

The above map of Krajina appears in the book “Yugoslavia – A Country Study” issued by U.S. Government Printing Office, Headquarters – Department of the Army, Edition 1992, page 14.

Notice the size of “Croatia” vs. “Military Frontier Province” (i.e. Krajina). Also notice that “Slavonia” and “Dalmatia” are different & separate entities than Croatia.

Croatian Communist Tito renamed all those areas into – “Socialist Republic of Croatia”.

 

In case you can not read the text associated with the above map here it is:

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SOURCE: Based on information from United Kingdom, Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, Yugoslavia, 2: History, Peoples, and Administration, London, 1944, 20.

Figure 2. Military Frontier Province Between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, ca. 1600-1800.

[End quote].

 

German map of United Nations Protected Area [UNPA] of Republic of Serbian Krajina [RSK] in 1994.

But such obfuscation and twisting of the facts by Marko Attila Hoare in his apologia for - and defense of - Tudjman’s genocide against the Krajina Serbs is so very typical of what we have come to expect of Hoare with his similar apologia for - and whitewashing of - Bosnian Islamofascist Alija Izetbegovic’s genocide of 3,870 Serb civilians in Srebrenica and Gorazde beginning as early as April 1992, perpetrated mainly by Izetbegovic’s Islamofascist commander, Naser Oric, whom openly bragged about his genocidal crimes against the Srebrenica Serbs to US and Canadian reporters from the Washington Post and Toronto Star.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/the-real-srebrenica-genocide-the-mass-murder-of-serbs-in-srebrenica-and-gorazde/

Once you understand the shocking and ugly truth that Western governments in NATO, the EU and US- led by traitorous Imperialist Globalist Capitalist politicians - who covertly aided and abetted this monstrous Nazi genocide by Tudjman in Krajina and the equally monstrous Islamofascist genocide committed by Izetbegovic in Bosnia against the Christian Orthodox Serbs –  you will begin to understand why these very same Western politicians are working very hard behind the scenes in covertly supporting the Islamofascist terrorists of Iran, PLO-Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah in order to destroy Israel and the Israeli Jews.

Remember this crucial fact: it is now amply documented that Western leaders in the EU, NATO and the US governments covertly aided the Islamofascist Izetbegovic in direct co-operation with the Islamofascist mullahs of Iran to import thousands of tonnes of weapons and  tens of thousands of al Qaeda cut-throat Jihadist Islamofascist killers into Bosnia as early as the beginning of 1992 in order to crush the Serbs.

These very same al Qaeda Jihadist terrorist killers who trained and fought in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo against the Serbs went later on to perpetrate the appalling terrorist attacks against Western civilians in New York, Washington, London and Madrid.The US, NATO and EU governments were funding, arming and training these Islamofascist  killers for an entire decade in direct co-ordination with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan!!

It is also amply documented that in the early 1990’s, Germany under Chancellor Helmut Kohl and later under Gerhard Schroeder, along with the US government under Bill Clinton, armed, trained and funded Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Nazi army as well as the Islamist Nazi terrorist mafia gangsters called the KLA-UCK ["Kosovo Liberation Army"] to go on their genocidal mass murder and ethnic cleansing sprees against hundreds of thousands of civilian Serbs in Krajina, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Once you understand and accept these amply documented facts of history, you will begin to understand why Israel and the Jewish people are in such grave, mortal danger from US, NATO and EU Globalist Capitalist Imperialist politicians running these Western countries and military alliances designed first and foremost not to “protect human rights and Western values” as Western politicians so hypocritically and incessantly declare to the dumbed-down Western consumerist masses, but in reality to enable the spread and total domination of Western Global Capital throughout the world.

This article should be read after reading Part 1, which is located at the following link:

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/tudjman-the-croatian-ustashe-nazi-genocide-of-krajina-serbs-in-1991/ 

  

May 5, 1995: Serbian civilian killed by Tudjman’s Croat army forces in an unprovoked and pre-planned attack on the so-called “United Nations Protected Area” in Western Slavonia, Krajina during the ethnic cleansing operation of Krajina Serbs, dubbed as “Operation Flash”. Despite Krajina being declared a “UN Protected Area”, this murderous attack on the Krajina Serbs by Tudjman’s troops did not result in UN- imposed economic sanctions or the bombing of Croatia by NATO. This is hardly surprising, since the US government under Bill Clinton, and the German government under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, were busy funding, arming, training and directing Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Croat army against the Krajina Serbs. Here is a quote from the editorial  in “Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy” magazine Volume 23, No.4 (May 5,1995), concerning  the article entitled “Croatia Hits UN, Serb areas” ["Operation Flash"] by ISSA president, Gregory Copley:

[Quote]: “It was clear that Croatia wanted all foreign observers out of the way so that it could undertake a further campaign of ethnic cleansing against their own countrymen of Serbian origin. We use the words “ethnic cleansing” because the phrase and the policy was invented by the Croatians themselves.

“In any event, the war resumed in April in Croatia [Krajina]. The Croats, we know from independent UN and other testimony, took men, women and children from the Serb area which they conquered [Western Slavonija] and executed about 1,000 of them. Croatian troops were seen holding the severed heads of women and children”. 

[End Quote]

http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Balkanindex.htm

   

This photo shows Serbian victims, Radosav Pavic and Velimir Trajkovic (both wearing red). The other victims are Zorica Pavlovic, her brother Zoran, mother Nada and Milojka Pavlovic. As Croatian forces withdrew from Vukovar on 15 and 16 November 1991, they dragged Serbian civilians from the cellars where they were hiding, and massacred them. These Serbs were axed to death in a courtyard, after being dragged from the cellar at 74 Nikola Demonja Street in Borovo-naselje, near Vukovar. All axed to death by Croatian Ustashe “skullcrushers”, sending a clear message to the Serbs that the Ustashe beast was not dead.

This photograph shows a Serbian victim of Franjo Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Nazi troops.  The victim’s name was Zoran Pavlovic and he was axed to death by modern-day Croatian “skull crushers”, killed on November 19, 1991, at 74 Nikole Demonje Street, Vukovar, Croatia. He was positively identified by surviving relatives. These revisited Holocaust crimes against the Serbs were discounted by the Western corporate controlled media as “Serb paranoia”, however these photographs clearly reveal the demonic nature of such Croatian Ustashe Nazi war crimes.

Zoran Pavlovic and his sister Zorica were killed along with their entire family on November 19, 1991, by retreating Croatian forces. A view of Zorica reveals how really brutally she was murdered. Her skull was also crushed. (Photos by Goran Mikic, Reuters)

 

The above two photos are of a three-year old Serbian boy who was shot dead while hiding in the cellar at 72 Nikola Demonja Street, Vukovar, Croatia. His mother and father, Sladjana and Miroslav Cecavac, were also brutally killed by Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Nazi troops. This 3 year old Serbian child was labelled a “Serbian aggressor” by Tudjman’s HDZ neo-Ustashe Croatian government and the Western corporate- controlled media. In order to stop his so-called ”aggression”, the so-called ”brave” Croatian neo-Ustashe soldiers put a bullet in the back of his head, which exited from the front of his skull. In the war in Croatia and Bosnia, by mid-1994,  7,000 Serbian children were killed: twice as many as Croatian and Muslim children combined. If, God forbid, this was your child, what would you do to his killers? (From: “The Suppressed Serbian Voice And The Free Press In America” By William Dorich, 1994 – p 30)

Krajina Serbs, killed in November, 1991 in Borovo Naselje.These Serbs were murdered by Tudjman’s  black-uniformed Croatian neo-Ustashe “Zbor Narodne Garde” (“National Guard Corps”) troops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Krajina Serbian man murdered in Gracac on August 8, 1995 by Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe troops during “Operation Storm”.

Elderly Krajina Serbian woman murdered near Knin on August 10, 1995 by Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe troops during “Operation Storm”.

 

Lika, 1993: Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Croat army attacked the UN Protected Zone, killing hundreds of Krajina Serbian civilians. This photo is of a partially burned body of an elderly Krajina Serbian woman killed in her house in Lika by Tudjman’s troops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 World War II Archived Photo of Croat Nazis known as “Ustashe”, preparing to slowly cut off the head of a Serbian teenage boy using a large saw as the murder weapon.

The mutilated corpse of a Krajina Serbian soldier in Bruvno, found on September 2, 1995. Croat troops had stripped the flesh from the upper torso, leaving only the spine and ribs.

Above two photos:Fleeing Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Croatian Terror, hundreds of thousands of Serbian men, women and children are driven out of Krajina province in early August, 1995, during the mass murder and ethnic cleansing operation dubbed “Operation Storm” by Tudjman’s HDZ government. The US government, under Bill Clinton, planned and directed this mass ethnic cleansing operation from the very beginning.Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe troops were advised and trained in the lead up to the attack via the Pentagon’s mercenary outsourcing firm known as “Military Professional Resources Incorporated” [MPRI]. NATO aircraft – dominated by the US - repeatedly bombed the Krajina Serbian command, control, communication and radar facilities in direct co-ordination with Tudjman’s Croat army troops and Croat airforce in order to hasten the collapse of the Krajina Serbian defenses: thus enabling the deliberate pre-planned expulsion of between 250,000 & 300,000 Serbian civilians and the mass murder of thousands of Krajina Serbian men, women and children by Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe HDZ government.

 

This elderly Krajina Serbian woman, unable to escape and left with nothing but the clothes she is wearing, is left behind to face Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Croat army terror.

Krajina Serbian children with their mother, fleeing for their lives from Tudjman’s brutal neo-Ustashe Croat army assault on the Serbian populated province of Krajina during “Operation Storm”.

 

Tudjman’s Croat Army fires heavy artillery deliberately into Serbian civilian areas in the then Serbian majority city of Knin, Krajina.

Hundreds of thousands of Serbian civilians driven out of Krajina in August, 1995 during Tudjman’s brutal mass murder and ethnic cleansing operation, dubbed “Operation Storm”.

 

Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Nazi troops looted and ransacked hundreds of Krajina Serbian houses and property in Knin in September, 1995 during “Operation Storm”.

Crkveni Bok, August, 1995, Tudjman’s Croat military forces wrote Ustashe Nazi-fascist graffiti on a destroyed Krajina Serbian house: “NDH” – which is the Croatian language abbreviation for “Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska” - which in English translates to “Independent State of Croatia” : the Adolf Hitler-created Nazi puppet state of Ustashe Croatia led by Croatian “poglavnik” ["Fuehrer"] Ante Pavelic, who was responsible for the mass murder from 1941 to 1945 in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina of at least 800,000 to a Million Serbs, at least 60,000 Jews and tens of thousands of Romanies, according to German, Italian, French, US and British sources from World War 2. 

Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Croat military forces killed everything living, including livestock. 

 

Krajina Serbian house destroyed by Croat military forces in Slansko Polje in September, 1995.

Petrinja Serbian Orthodox cemetery in October, 1995, where many of the victims of the Croat army attack are buried.

Krajina Serbian business destroyed in Korenica by Croat forces in August, 1995.

 

Hundreds of thousands of Serbian refugees with children among them, brutally expelled from Krajina by Tudjman’s neo-Ustashe Croat army troops.

Krajina Serbs attacked by Croats whilst attempting to flee the brutal neo-Ustashe expulsion and mass murder operation dubbed “Operation Storm”. Thousands of civilian Serbs were killed by gangs of marauding Croat army troops and paramilitaries as well as murdered from the air by Croat airforce planes  strafing with machine guns and dropping bombs on the miles-long Krajina Serbian refugee columns.

Broken doll abandoned by Krajina Serbian children in Caglic in May, 1995 during Tudjman’s “Operation Flash” terror campaign against Krajina Serbs living in the so-called ”UN Protected Area” of Western Slavonija.

Photo montage: On the left: The Tudjman neo-Ustashe Nazi “Liberated” Krajina province in 1995 in the aftermath of “Operation Storm” has its streets re-named after WWII Croat Ustashe Nazi leaders. The street sign reads: “Street Ante Pavelic”. On the right: Photo of WWII Croat Ustashe Nazi leader, Ante Pavelic, giving the Nazi-Fascist salute to  Croat Ustashe troops.

 

WW2 Croatia: Croat Catholic nuns marching with their Nazi-legionnaires, the Ustashe (From the 1962 book: “Genocide in Satellite Croatia 1941-1945″ by French Roman Catholic Professor, Edmond Paris)

Croatian Nuns salute in the Nazi-Fascist manner in World War 2 Croatia. 

A Croatian Ustashe Nazi trooper holding the severed head of a pro-Allied Serbian Royalist ‘Chetnik’ Guerrilla Resistance fighter during World War 2. 

 

This 1941 photograph shows an unidentified Serb victim of the Ustashe “Skull Crushers”, as they were known. During the Holocaust, Croatian Nazis took pictures of their victims. These pictures were used to prove to Ante Pavelic and Andrija Artukovic, their Croatian Nazi leaders, how loyal they were to the First Independent State of Croatia of 1941. This image was reproduced in a book entitled, “Croatian Genocide 1941-45″ p. 22. It was published by the Serbian National Defense Council, Chicago, 1947.

Here is a reprint from the article published  in the prestigious “Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy” magazine, Volume XX, Number 12 (December 31,1992),  entitled:

“For Serbians, Fears of a German Axis Rise For The Third Time This Century”

 

Serbs can cite strong feelings and many reasons for their concern over Germany’s support for Croatia’s new war against them. Associate Publisher T. W. Carr looks at the historical patterns which led to the current Balkan conflict.

By T. W. Carr, Associate Publisher, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

Serbs have had to fight for survival as a people in every major European conflict this Century, from the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, through World War II, and again today. Significantly, the Serbs never began any of the conflicts, and in all of them, Serbian sentiment notes, their enemies always included a German, Croat and Vatican axis.

On each occasion conflict erupted during a period of German expansion, irrespective of whether policy was implemented by military, political or economic means.

Ante Pavelic, the extreme right wing nationalist who later became Croatia’s first Fuhrer, stated in 1927 “How can Croatia — full of western culture, Latin and German culture, Italian humanistic culture and German romanticism — co-exist with the Orthodox, rough, savage and ruthless Serbs?”

Less than two years later he left Yugoslavia for Italy where he soon established his “Ustasha: the Croatian Revolutionary Organisation”. It set up training camps and ran a campaign of terror and assassinations, including the murder of Yugoslavia’s King Aleksandar during a visit to France. Ante Pavelic was tried and convicted in absence for Aleksandar’s murder, yet Italy continued providing a safe haven for him and his Ustashi. When Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Party came to power in Germany in 1933, Pavelic adopted the nazi racial policies which accorded with his views aired in 1927.

For 20 months after the outbreak of World War II, Yugoslavia walked a tightrope and stayed neutral until the Cvetkovic-Macek Government joined the Tripartite Pact on March 25, 1941.

Two days later, the Serbian General, Dusan Simovic, aided by British intelligence, headed a popular revolt against the Government’s action.

Hitler reacted by diverting massive forces from the Eastern Front to attack Belgrade on April 6, using 450 bombers in a dawn raid. There were 51 divisions of Axis forces, supported by 2,170 combat aircraft, in the attack on Yugoslavia.

On April 10, the 14th Panzer division rolled into Zagreb enthusiastically welcomed by Croatians. Within hours, working to a well-prepared plan, Dr Edmund Vesenmager (Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop’s envoy from Berlin) proclaimed on Zagreb radio the formation of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) under Poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelic.

Seven days later the Axis forces controlled all Yugoslavia, and, in the punitive carve-up, Hitler and Italian leader Benito Mussolini created the ISC proper, allocating to it Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srem and part of Dalmatia (the territory claimed today by Croatia).

In the meantime, only 36 hours after the panzers had arrived, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Azgreb, Alojzije Stepinac, endorsed the proclamation on behalf of the Church. Within a few days he issued an instruction to the Catholic clergy, “. . . to work with dedication for the fostering and promotion of the new Independent State of Croatia”. Pope Pious XII then appointed Archbishop Stepinac as Senior Military Chaplain. A Catholic priest was subsequently assigned to serve with every Ustashi military unit.

On taking office, the Poglavnik stated: “It is the duty of the Ustashi movement to ensure that the ISC is ruled always and everywhere only by Croatians, so that they are the sole master of all the real and spiritual good in their own land. Within Croatia there can be no compromise between the Croatian people and others who are not pure Croats; Ustashi must extinguish all trace of such people.”

The campaign of ethnic cleansing had begun earlier, less than three weeks after Hilter’s creation of Croatia. It commenced with the slaughter of prominent Serbs and leaders of the Orthodox Church. On May 5, 1941, the Bishop of Banja Luka, together with archpriests from Bosanska Gradiska and Dusan Subotic, were tortured in an attempted conversion. When this failed, all were murdered in cold blood. A similar fate was dealt to the Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia, Petar Zimonic, and to Sava Trlaic, the Bishop of Gomji Karlovac.

More than 200 Orthodox priests were slaughtered in rapid succession following the murder of the Metropolitan of Zagreb, Dositej Vasic. On August 24, 1941, Zagreb issued administrative orders concerning the arrest of the remaining Orthodox priests and monks. Perhaps the most significant example of state and church collaboration in thnic cleansing was Friar Miroslav Filipovic. This Catholic priest doubled as the commander for four months of Jasenovac, Europe’s largest concentration camp located on 210sq.km. along the banks of the river Sava. [See story, page seven.]
 
1945: Escaping Europe

The genocide continued unabated throughout the war. Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were murdered with mediaeval ferocity. More than a million Serbs of all ages were butchered in their homes, in forests and in concentration camps. Another 250,000 were forcefully converted to Catholicism, and a further 300,000 or so were driven out of Croatia into the remote mountain areas of Serbia.

But as the war drew to a close in Europe, communist partisan leader Josip Broz “Tito” took control of Yugoslavia. Under cover of darkness, Ante Pavelic fled across the Austrian border into the British Zone, at that time under the control of Field Marshal Alexander. Europe was awash with refugees, more than 18-million, most of whom were displaced persons, but hiding amongst them were thousands of war criminals.

Tito wanted Pavelic, and in July 1945 he informed the British that Pavelic was hiding in their zone. The British replied stating “every effort is being made to find him”. Tito responded month after month with specific allegations as to Pavelic’s shifting hiding places: villas, monasteries. Irritated, the British Foreign Office rebutted Tito’s allegations: “The allegations are ungracious and unfounded. At no time has Pavelic been in British custody, or his whereabouts known to the British authorities.”

An internal Foreign Office memo was circulated indicating that “it is becoming increasingly clear that quislings are finding refuge under the wing of the church”.

This was probably the outcome of an intelligence report on the activities of Father Traganavic, a Croatian Roman Catholic priest who held high office in the Ustashi Government. He was, although classified as a war criminal, permitted by the Allies to tour European refugee camps throughout the second half of 1945 and during 1946. Ostensibly his task was to render religious ministry to refugees, but in fact he was making covert contact with thousands of Ustashi hiding within the ranks of true refugees. He arranged for new Red Cross identity cards to be issued, and at the same time organised a political intelligence network to help Ustashi and other war criminals. US intelligence codenamed the network and its escape routes “ratlines”.

In December 1946, an intelligence report from Austria admitted that Pavelic had been hiding in the British Zone, but had escaped with colleagues dressed as priests to Milan during May 1946. From Milan, using false identity cards, they had travelled south to the Vatican. Pavelic used a Spanish passport in the name “Don Pedro Gona”. Gaining Red Cross identity cards was easy for Traganavic. Two validating authorities per country were appointed by the International Red Cross. In the case of Italy, one was the Vatican Refugee Committee.

The Vatican Refugee Committee was in fact the Brotherhood of San Geronimo, the Croatian Collegiate within the Vatican. Father Traganavic was the Secretary of the Brotherhood, and he was also the Croatian National Representative of the Red Cross. This was a strange double appointment for a man branded a war criminal by Tito’s Government. A former Croatian Ustashi diplomat, Evor Omrechanan, based in Rome, is on record saying he had no problem in obtaining an identity card for Pavelic from the Vatican to enable him to make the journey from Milan to Rome.

By January 1947, the US Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) knew that Pavelic was being sheltered at the Vatican. A special agent called Gower infiltrated the San Geronomo Brotherhood and discovered that this Vatican Collegiate was doing much more than just harbouring Pavelic. Within its walls was a complete Ustashi unit where naxi salutes were given.

On April 11, 1947, the US CIC planned to capture Pavelic from a Vatican library or while en route in a Vatican car. However, Pavelic stayed one step ahead of CIC, thanks to a double agent planted in the CIC by Father Traganavic.

In July, the CIS again ordered that Pavelic was to be taken. One week later the operational order was countermanded, across it was a handwritten instruction “hands off”.

Within days Pavelic had a Hungarian passport under the name of Pablo Eranias and a visa for Argentina. In Genoa, another priest, Father Fichanico, arranged a berth for Pavelic to sail to security adviser to Argentine President Juan Peron who subsequently gave visas to 35,000 Ustashi escaping from Europe thanks to the “ratlines” intelligence network organised by Father Traganavic and the Brotherhood of San Geronimo.
 
FIFTY YEARS ON

The first convention of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) on February 26, 1990, in Zagreb marked the rebirth of the Ustasha and the rehabilitation of the Independent State of Croatia. All the killing and ethnic cleansing policy implementation flowed from that day in a re-run of the events of 50 years before.

On May 30, 1990, the HDZ was elected to power in the Sobor (parliament) and Dr Franjo Tudjman became President of the Republic. At an open air rally in Jelacic Square, the Archbishop Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, blessed a baby’s cradle to symbolise the re-birth of the ISC.

On December 22, 1990, the Sabor proclaimed the independence of Croatia and summarily adopted a new constitution under which Serbs lost their nation status, regulated to a national minority.

The HDZ took a series of steps during 1990 to purify Coratia by eradicating the Serbian identity. The cyrillic script was banned, Croatian became the only official language, Serbian associations were abolished, literature was cleansed of Serbian authors and Serbs were not permitted to operate their own TV and radio programmes. On another front, Serbs lost their jobs in the police and security organs as well as in Government posts.

As the same time, World War II history was re-written and street names changed to glorify Ustashi by eliminating any trace of the genocide. T-shirts showing Ustashi symbols such as the infamous Black Legion went on sale to young Croatians.

Arms and defence equipment flowed into Croatia directly and indirectly from Germany. Mass arming of HDZ members took place, the police force was expanded and the National Guard was re-equipped as an Ustashi army. May 28, 1991, saw a nazi style rally of the “Croatian Armed Forces” at Zagreb football stadium.

Then the killing of individual Serbs started. Memories of 1941 stirred and the exodus began. The day after the rally, Serbs from Borovo Selo fled from Croatia. The killings, which started early in April 1991 at Plitvice, escalated during July, August and September. At Vukovar, Serbs were subjected to torture, rape, and murder for many months before the conflict was presented to the world as “brutal aggression by the Yugoslav Army against peace-loving Croatians”. The murders are documented and proven.

Around 5,000 Serbs were rounded up and held in the Borovo footware factory complex at Vukovar. From this Croatian concentration camp hundreds of Serb men, women and children were taken out and slaughtered. Mutilated bodies thrown into the river were carried downstream into Serbian territory. These were recovered, photographed and their identities painstakingly discovered.

October 1991 saw the arrest of 20 Orthodox priests, including his Holiness Lukijan, Bishop of Slavonia, yet another replay of 1941 actions.

Having arrested their Bishop, Croatian authorities during November expelled some 25,000 Serbs from Western Slavonija. At the same time (October 29) the inhabitants of 24 Serbian villages were ordered to vacate their homes within 48 hours by the Croatian authorities in Slavonska Pozega. Seventeen of the Serbian villages were razed in Croatian ethnic cleansing operations which drove another 10,000 Serbs into Bosnia.

No less than 189 villages in nine communes south of the River Drava were completely cleansed of Serbs during 1991 and early 1992.

Church destruction went hand in glove with the arrest of Orthodox priests and the expulsion of Serbs from Croatia. By the end of October 1991 alone, more than 70 churches were completely destroyed or severely damaged. [More than 300 have now been destroyed in the current fighting.] On September 28, Croatian paramilitary forces demolished the Baroque complex of the Pakrac Bishops built in 1732. They set fire to the seminary, and in the cathedral thy burnt icons and the bishops’ library containing almost 6,000 books, many of historical importance. Fifty of the books dated back to the 18th Century and included a unique copy of a Sabornik, printed in Venice, circa 1536.

As in 1941, it was Germany and the Vatican which brought Croatia to life, the second time by prematurely recognising Croatia as an independent state with the right to cede from Yugoslavia.

Both authorities pushed members of the EC and the international community into recognising Croatia. At the same time, both manipulated the mass media, presenting the Serbs as “leftover communists trying to subvert the pro-Western democracies of Croatia and Slovenia”.

Serbian officials tried to tell the EC and other members of the international community what Germany was doing in Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

Plans to build a superhighway in the north from Hamburg to St Petersburgh are aimed at giving Germany domination of the Baltic. A similar highway planned to link Budapest with Trieste and Rijeka via Zagreb is perceived to provide the infrastructure that gives the projected German economic “empire” access to the Mediterranean.

German law preventing foreign military action helped Germany stay out of the costly military operations of the Gulf War. The same will be true of any conflict in Yugoslavia and the Balkans. So the Balkans conflict costs Germany virtually nothing, while it drains the US and UK economies.

Serbs report that Germany is actively lobbying some 40 countries in Africa and the Middle East to support a forthcoming German bid to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

As far as the Serbs and Yugoslavs are concerned, the German Government started the present conflicts in Yugoslavia and has used its influence and media channels to help distort the truth and prevent a workable form of peace coming about. There is much evidence to support the Yugoslav point of view.   

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Clinton made 1995 Ethnic Cleansing in Krajina Possible

Croatian Ethnic Cleansing of Serbian Krajina is Reflected in World Almanacs

By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.bannerofliberty.com)

July 24, 2000

There was no outcry against the ethnic cleansing that took place in full view of the world, and made possible by US Air support in 1995 in the Krajina area of Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs were driven from their homes, and up to 20,000 of them were killed. Some of them have been refugees twice. Some of them who survived the Krajina ethnic cleansing fled to Kosovo and have been driven out of Kosovo back into Serbia. . Not only are they refugees, but are refugees who have been bombed twice by U.S. bombs and missiles, while most Americans remain blissfully unaware of their plight. I recently brought up the subject in a conversation with one of my own children, who had never heard about the 250,000-275,000 Serbs who were driven out of Krajina, after more than 500 years of living in the area. She thought I was making it up because she was sure it would have been on the evening news if it had happened.

In May 1999, Valdan Zivadinovic sent me a report on what happened in August 1995 during the worst refugee crisis in the 1990s Balkan wars of the 1990s when the Croatians drove the Serbs out of Krajina. The author of that ethnic cleansing was Franjo Tudjman, who was re-elected as president of Croatia following the 1995 Dayton Accord. In the intervening five years there has been no international demand that the Croatians allow the Serbs who had occupied the Krajina area for more than 500 years to return to their homes.

Furthermore, it is an ethnic cleansing that is VERIFIED by the World Almanacs of 1993 and 2000. In 1993 the population of Croatia was 4, 763,000 with 75% being Croatian and 18% being Serbian. In numbers that turns out to be 840,885 Serbs in Croatia in the 1992 census figures. In the year 2000 World Almanac the population of Croatia was down to 4,671,584 with 78% being Croatian and 12% being Serbian. In numbers that would be 560,590 Serbs – a difference of 280,295 people. Most of them are in Yugoslavia’s Serbia province. Many of them, an estimated 17,000-20,000 are dead.

The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society, (serbian.heritage@ottawa.com) issued a press release Saturday commemorating the “ethnocide and genocide committed on Serbs in Krajina , Bosnia and Kosovo. August 4th is Krajina Dan, the Memorial Day for Serbian Krajina. This commemorates the day that Knin, the capital of the Serbian Krajina region, fell to invading Croatian forces in 1995. Croatia continues to occupy the region today and of more than 250,000 Serbian people whom the Croatian Army either killed or ethnically-cleansed out of the region in August, 1995, the number who have returned is virtually zero to this date.

“Every August 4th a Krajina Dan Memorial is held

to remember the victims of this genocide. This year’s program is: Memorial Prayer Service and a wrath laying at the Human Rights Memorial, Elgin and Lisgar streets, at 6:00pm – 6: 30pm.” After the perpetrator of this ethnic cleansing, Croatian President Tudjman, died on December 11, 1999, high level representatives from the United States and Western Europe did not attend the funeral in fear that doing so would be a political liability if and when Tudjman’s war crimes and his un-reconstructed Fascism from World War II became known. Zivadinovic’s paper, found on pages 131-140 in “NATO in the Balkans: KRAJINA”, ISBN 0-9656916-2-4), is a chilling indictment of man’s inhumanity to man. It is an ugly story, but it is time that the American people ask themselves if they really want to continue the Serb sanctions and the Kosovo ethnic cleansing of all minorities and the general anarchy that exists there under NATO and UN occupation. Zivadinocic wrote:

In early August 1995, the Croatian invasion of Serbian Krajina precipitated the worst refugee crisis of the Yugoslav civil war. Within days, more than two hundred thousand Serbs, virtually the entire population of Krajina, fled their homes, and 14,000 Serbian civilians lost their lives. According to a UN official “Almost the only people remaining were the dead and the dying.” The Clinton administration’s support for the invasion was an important factor in creating this nightmare. The previous month, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel met with Croatian diplomat Miomir Zuzul in London. During this meeting, Christopher gave his approval for Croatian military action against Serbs in Bosnia and Krajina. Two days later, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, also approved Croatia’s invasion plan. Stipe Mesic, a prominent Croatian politician, stated that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman “received the go-ahead from the United States. Tudjman can do only what the Americans allow him to do. Krajina is the reward for having accepted, under Washington’s pressure, the federation between Croats and Muslims in Bosnia.” Croatian assembly deputy Mate Mestrovic also claimed that the “United States gave us the green light to do whatever had to be done.” (1)

As Croatian troops launched their assault on August 4, U.S. NATO aircraft destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses. American EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft patrolled the air in support of the invasion. Krajina foreign affairs advisor Slobodan Jarcevic stated that NATO “completely led and coordinated the entire Croat offensive by first destroying radar and anti-aircraft batteries. What NATO did most for the Croatian Army was to jam communications between [Serb] military commands….” (2)

Following the elimination of Serbian anti-aircraft defenses, Croatian planes carried out extensive attacks on Serbian towns and positions. The roads were clogged with refugees, and Croatian aircraft bombed and strafed refugee columns. Serbian refugees passing through the town of Sisak were met by a mob of Croatian extremists, who hurled rocks and concrete at them.

A UN spokesman said, “The windows of almost every vehicle were smashed and almost every person was bleeding from being hit by some object.” Serbian refugees were pulled from their vehicles and beaten. As fleeing Serbian civilians poured into Bosnia, a Red Cross representative in Banja Luka said, “I’ve never seen anything like it. People are arriving at a terrifying rate.” Bosnian Muslim troops crossed the border and cut off Serbian escape routes. Trapped refugees were massacred as they were pounded by Croatian and Muslim artillery. Nearly 1,700 refugees simply vanished. While Croatian and Muslim troops burned Serbian villages, President Clinton expressed his understanding for the invasion, and Christopher said events “could work to our advantage.” (3)

The Croatian rampage through the region left a trail of devastation. Croatian special police units, operating under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, systematically looted abandoned Serbian villages. Everything of value – cars, stereos, televisions, furniture, farm animals – was plundered, and homes set afire. (4) A confidential European Union report stated that 73 percent of Serbian homes were destroyed. (5) Troops of the Croatian army also took part, and pro-Nazi graffiti could be seen on the walls of several burnt-out Serb buildings.(6)

Massacres continued for several weeks after the fall of Krajina, and UN patrols discovered numerous fresh unmarked graves and bodies of murdered civilians. (7) The European Union report states, “Evidence of atrocities, an average of six corpses per day, continues to emerge. The corpses, some fresh, some decomposed, are mainly of old men. Many have been shot in the back of the head or had throats slit, others have been mutilated… Serb lands continue to be torched and looted.” [8]

Following a visit in the region a member of the Zagreb Helsinki Committee reported, “Virtually all Serb villages had been destroyed…. In a village near Knin, eleven bodies were found, some of them were massacred in such a way that it was not easy to see whether the body was male or female.” (9)

UN spokesman Chris Gunness noted that UN personnel continued to discover bodies, many of whom had been decapitated. (10) British journalist Robert Fisk reported the murder of elderly Serbs, many of whom were burned alive in their homes. He adds, “At Golubic, UN officers have found the decomposing remains of five people… the head of one of the victims was found 150 feet from his body. Another UN team, meanwhile is investigating the killing of a man and a woman in the same area after villagers described how the man’s ears and nose had been mutilated.” (11)

After the fall of Krajina, Croatian chief of staff General Zvonimir Cervenko characterized Serbs as “medieval shepherds, troglodytes, destroyers of anything the culture of man has created.” During a triumphalist train journey through Croatia and Krajina, Tudjman spoke at each railway station. To great applause, he announced, “There can be no return to the past, to the times when [Serbs] were spreading cancer in the heart of Croatia, a cancer that was destroying the Croatian national being.” He then went on to speak of the “ignominious disappearance” of the Serbs from Krajina “so it is as if they have never lived here… They didn’t even have time to take with them their filthy money or their filthy underwear!” American ambassador Peter Galbraith dismissed claims that Croatia had engaged in “ethnic cleansing,” since he defined this term as something Serbs do. (12)

U.S. representatives blocked Russian attempts to pass a UN Security Council resolution condemning the invasion. According to Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic, American officials gave advice on the conduct of the operation, and European and military experts and humanitarian aid workers reported shipments of U.S weapons to Croatia over the two months preceding the invasion. A French mercenary also witnessed the arrival of American and German weapons at a Croatian port, adding, “The best of the Croats’ armaments were German- and American-made.” The U.S. “directly or indirectly,” says French intelligence analyst Pierre Hassner, “rearmed the Croats.” Analysts at Jane’s Information Group say that Croatian troops were seen wearing American uniforms and carrying U S. communications equipment. (13)

The invasion of Krajina was preceded by a thorough CIA and DIA analysis of the region. (14) According to Balkan specialist Ivo Banac, this “tactical and intelligence support” was furnished to the Croatian Army at the beginning of its offensive. (15)

In November 1994, the United States and Croatia signed a military agreement. Immediately afterward, U.S. intelligence agents set up an operations center on the Adriatic island of Brac, from which reconnaissance aircraft were launched. Two months earlier, the Pentagon contracted Military Professional Resources, Inc (MPRI) to train the Croatian military.(16) According to a Croatian officer, MPRI advisors “lecture us on tactics and big war operations on the level of brigades, which is why we needed them for Operation Storm when we took the Krajina.” Croatian sources claim that U.S. satellite intelligence was furnished to the Croatian military. (17) Following the invasion of Krajina, the U.S. rewarded Croatia with an agreement “broadening existing cooperation” between MPRI and the Croatian military. [18] U.S. advisors assisted in the reorganization of the Croatian Army. Referring to this reorganization in an interview with the newspaper Vecernji List, Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, “We are building the foundations of our organization on the traditions of the Croatian home guard” – pro-Nazi troops in World War II. (19)

It is worth examining the nature of what one UN official terms “America’s newest ally.” During World War II, Croatia was a Nazi puppet state in which the Croatian fascist Ustashe murdered as many as one million Serbs, Jews, and Roman (Gypsies). Disturbing signs emerged with the election of Franjo Tudjman to the Croatian presidency in 1990 Tudjman said, “I am glad my wife is neither Serb nor Jew,” and wrote that accounts of the Holocaust were “exaggerated” and “one-sided.” (20)

Much of Tudjman’s financial backing was provided by Ustasha émigrés and several Ustasha war criminals were invited to attend the first convention of Tudjman’s political party, the Croatian Democratic Union. (21)

Tudjman presented a medal to a former Ustasha commander living in Argentina, Ivo Rojnica. After Rojnica was quoted as saying, “Everything I did in 1941 I would do again,” international pressure prevented Tudjman from appointing him to the post of ambassador to Argentina. When former Ustasha official Vinko Nikolic returned to Croatia, Tudjman appointed him to a seat in parliament. Upon former Ustasha officer Mate Sarlija’s return to Croatia, he was personally welcomed at the airport by Defense Minister Gojko Susak, and subsequently given the post of general in the Croatian Army. (22) On November 4, 1996, thirteen former Ustasha officers were presented with medals and ranks in the Croatian Army. (23)

Croatia adopted a new currency in 1994, the kuna, the same name as that used by the Ustasha state, and the new Croatian flag is a near-duplicate of the Ustasha flag. Streets and buildings have been renamed for Ustasha official Mile Budak, who signed the regime’s anti-Semitic laws, and more than three thousand anti-fascist monuments have been demolished. In an open letter, the Croatian Jewish community protested the rehabilitation of the Ustasha state. In April 1994, the Croatian government demanded the removal of all “non-white” UN troops from its territory, claiming that “only first-world troops” understood Croatia’s “problems.” (24)

On Croatian television in April 1996, Tudjman called for the return of the remains of Ante Pavelic, the leader of the Croatian pro-Nazi puppet state “After all, both reconciliation and recognition should be granted to those who deserve it,” Tudjman said, adding, “We should recognize that Pavelic’s ideas about the Croatian state were positive,” but that Pavelic’s only mistake was the murder of a few of his colleagues and nationalist allies. (25) Three months later, Tudjman said of the Serbs driven from Croatia “The fact that 90 percent of them left is their own problem… Naturally we are not going to allow them all to return.” During the same speech, Tudjman referred to the pro-Nazi state as “a positive thing.” (26)

During its violent secession from Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatia expelled more than three hundred thousand Serbs, and Serbs were eliminated from ten towns and 183 villages. (27) In 1993, Helsinki Watch reported: “Since 1991 the Croatian authorities have blown up or razed ten thousand houses mostly of Serbs, but also houses of Croats. In some cases, they dynamited homes with the families inside.” Thousands of Serbs have been evicted from their homes. Croatian human-rights activist Ivan Zvonimir Cicak says beatings, plundering, and arrests were the usual eviction methods. [28]

Tomislav Mercep, until recently the advisor to the Interior minister and a member of Parliament, is a death-squad leader. Mercep’s death squad murdered 2,500 Serbs in western Slavonia in 1991 and 1992, actions Mercep defends as “heroic deeds.” (29) Death squad officer Miro Bajramovic’s spectacular confession revealed details: “Nights were worst for [our prisoners]… burning prisoners with a flame, pouring vinegar over their wounds mostly on genitalia and on the eyes. Then there is that little induction, field phone, you plug a Serb onto that… The most painful is to stick little pins under the nails and to connect to the three phase current; nothing remains of a man but ashes… After all, we knew they would all be killed, so it did not matter if we hurt them more today or tomorrow.”

“Mercep knew everything,” Bajramovic claimed. “He told us several times: ‘Tonight you have to clean all these shits.’ By this he meant all the prisoners should be executed.” (30)

Sadly, the Clinton administration’s embrace of Croatia follows a history of support for fascists when it suits American geopolitical interests: Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, Indonesia’s Suharto, Paraguay’s Aifredo Stroessner, and a host of others. The consequences of this policy for the people affected have been devastating.

Although the American people were told last year that the 79 days of bombing of Yugoslavia was a “humanitarian” effort to “stop ethnic cleansing,” the facts indicate no ethnic cleansing took place. Now we are hearing that it was the KLA itself that was ordering the Albanians to flee, and most Albanians AND Serbs were fleeing the NATO bombs. Yet, still there as been no change in the US policy in Serbia. Clinton still insists on keeping sanctions in place in an effort to destroy the Serbs. And, not a word has been said about any of this in the year 2000 presidential election campaign. Clinton told us in 1995 that the American servicemen who were sent to Bosnia would be “home by Christmas.” Not only are they still not home, we have send another contingent to assist in the occupation of Kosovo. I have wondered most of my life how the German people could have sat back and done nothing as their leader did horrible things. “We didn’t know about it,” I was told by Germans who lived in Germany at the time. I doubted them. However, now I’m seeing something disturbingly similar by an American leader, and we Americans are not even asking Presidential candidates questions about it. I think I may owe those post-World War II German citizens an apology. Maybe they really didn’t know about it. Or, just maybe, they didn’t really WANT to know what was happening to their Jewish neighbors when they disappeared. ——————————————————————————————

Coverup at The Hague Tribunal

Mercenary Outfit on Contract to the Pentagon

behind 1995 Ethnic Massacres in the Krajina region of Croatia

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The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) has asked: “to interview retired [Croatian] general Mirko Norac as a suspect over two military operations during the 1991-95 war, a government statement said. Norac, 34, was sentenced in March by a Croatian court to a 12 years in jail for organizing the executions of at least 50 ethnic Serbs civilians in October 1991 near the central town of Gospic. He is the highest ranking Croatian officer to be sentenced by a local court for war crimes committed during the 1991-95 war with Belgrade-backed rebel Serbs, who opposed Croatia’s independence from the former Yugoslavia. The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) wants to interview Norac about a 1993 operation in the so-called Medak pocket, in central Croatia, and a 1995 operation — dubbed Storm — which practically ended the conflict.” AFP, 19 July, 2003).

On 21 July,  the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) acknowledged the role of MPRI, a US mercenary Outfit on contract to the Pentagon in Operation Storm,  the 1995 ethnic massacres in the Krajina region of Serbia. Since the 1990s, both the ICTY and the media have been involved in a coverup of the role of the US military in the 1993 Medak pocket  and 1995 Operation Storm ethnic massacres.  Below you will find  the following texts:

1. Transcript of CBS New Story: Croatian Atrocities being forgotten: http://www.cbc.ca/MRL/clips/ram-audio/dyer1_wr030721.ram 2. Part of a text by Michel Chossudovsky on the role of MPRI, in Krajina first published in 1999 as part of a larger study entitled NATO has Installed a Reign of Terror in Kosovo, ( http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/chossu.htm or http://www.softmakers.com/fry/docs/chossudovsky.htm )

Croatian Atrocities being forgotten

CBC Report

21 Jul 2003 9:32:11 OTTAWA  Canadian officers say they are frustrated by inaction over a 1995 ethnic cleansing operation by Croatians against Serbs – one in which the Croats may have had western help. They documented numerous atrocities during Operation Storm, which was a four-day campaign by the Croats to recover land held in central and southern Croatia for four years by Serbian militias. However, not one person has been arrested and brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. More than 200,000 Serbs were expelled, and thousands were killed. “Just amazing. You can see the holes in the back of the head,” said Capt. Gerry Carron, showing pictures he took to document the killings. “We found people in wells,” he said. “There was an old lady we found head-first in a well. Why did they do that?” Some top military officers said the expertise required to plan and execute Operation Storm meant it couldn’t have been done by the Croats alone. Croatia’s American consultant Fingers have been pointed at Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), a U.S. consulting company based in Alexandria, Virginia. The company’s Web site points to an article in which the Croatian government praised the job MPRI has done for it – although MPRI has denied involvement in Operation Storm. “I don’t think it was the Croats themselves that did that,” said Maj.-Gen. Alain Fourand, who commanded UN forces in the area of Operation Storm, adding he suspected it was MPRI. Maj.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, who will be going to Afghanistan to command Canadian troops, also said he doubts the Croats themselves pulled off Operation Storm. “That was done by people who really knew what they were doing,” he said, adding he didn’t think the Croats had the expertise. Croatia was getting assistance in other ways. Argentina supplied artillery used in Operation Storm – despite a UN ban and even though their own soldiers were working there as peacekeepers. Looking back, Carron said peacekeepers may have made things worse by disarming the Serbs while the Croats re-armed. Canadian officers say the involvement of the West could explain the foot-dragging on prosecution, although the tribunal said the case is largely circumstantial. The Canadians also believe the Croatian commander of Operation Storm is being protected by supporters in Croatia’s government, and that not enough diplomatic pressure is being exerted. Written by CBC News Online staff

The Role of the MPRI in the Krajina Massacres

by

Michel Chossudovsky

31 July 1999 This following excerpt was part of a text presented to the Independent Commission of Inquiry to Investigate U.S./NATO War Crimes Against The People of Yugoslavia, International Action Center, New York, July 31, 1999. The full text entitled: NATO has installed a Reign of Terror in Kosovo, can be consulted at . http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/chossu.htm or http://www.softmakers.com/fry/docs/chossudovsky.htm

“summary executions, indiscriminate shelling of civilian populations and “ethnic cleansing” in the Krajina region of Croatia….”23

In a section of the report entitled “The Indictment. Operation Storm, A Prima Facie Case.”, the ICTY report confirms that:

“During the course of the military offensive, the Croatian armed forces and special police committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law, including but not limited to, shelling of Knin and other cities… During, and in the 100 days following the military offensive, at least 150 Serb civilians were summarily executed, and many hundreds disappeared. …In a widespread and systematic manner, Croatian troops committed murder and other inhumane acts upon and against Croatian Serbs.” 24

US `GENERALS FOR HIRE’

The internal 150 page report concluded that it has “sufficient material to establish that the three [Croatian] generals who commanded the military operation” could be held accountable under international law.25 The individuals named had been directly involved in the military operation “in theatre”. Those involved in “the planning of Operation Storm” were not mentioned:

“The identity of the “American general” referred to by Fenrick [a Tribunal staff member] is not known. The tribunal would not allow Williamson or Fenrick to be interviewed. But Ms. Arbour, the tribunal’s chief prosecutor, suggested in a telephone interview last week that Fenrick’s comment had been `a joking observation’. Ms. Arbour had not been present during the meeting, and that is not how it was viewed by some who were there. Several people who were at the meeting assumed that Fenrick was referring to one of the retired U.S. generals who worked for Military Professional Resources Inc. … Questions remain about the full extent of U.S. involvement. In the course of the three yearinvestigation into the assault, the United States has failed to provide critical evidence requested by the tribunal, according to tribunal documents and officials, adding to suspicion among some there that Washington is uneasy about the investigation… The Pentagon, however, has argued through U.S. lawyers at the tribunal that the shelling was a legitimate military activity, according to tribunal documents and officials”.26

The Tribunal was attempting to hide what had already been revealed in several press reports published in the wake of Operation Storm. According to a US State Department spokesman, MPRI had been helping the Croatians “avoid excesses or atrocities in military operations.”27 Fifteen senior US military advisers headed by retired two star General Richard Griffitts had been dispatched to Croatia barely seven months before Operation Storm. 28 According to one report, MPRI executive director General Carl E. Vuono: “held a secret top-level meeting at Brioni Island, off the coast of Croatia, with Gen. Varimar Cervenko, the architect of the Krajina campaign. In the five days preceding the attack, at least ten meetings were held between General Vuono and officers involved in the campaign…”29 According to Ed Soyster, a senior MPRI executive and former head of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA):

“MPRI’s role in Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on military-civil relations and doesn’t involve training in tactics or weapons. Other U.S. military men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats and many suspect more than classroom instruction was involved it was worth every penny.” Carl Vuono and Butch [Crosbie] Saint are hired guns and in it for the money,” says Charles Boyd, a recently retired four star Air Force general who was the Pentagon’s No. 2 man in Europe until July [1995]. “They did a very good job for the Croats, and I have no doubt they’ll do a good job in Bosnia.”30

THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL’S COVER UP The untimely leaking of the ICTY’s internal report on the Krajina massacres barely a few days before the onslaught of NATO’s air raids on Yugoslavia was the source of some embarrassment to the Tribunal’s Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour. The Tribunal (ICTY) attempted to cover up the matter and trivialise the report’s findings (including the alleged role of the US military officers on contract with the Croatian Armed Forces). Several Tribunal officials including American Lawyer Clint Williamson sought to discredit the Canadian Peacekeeping officers’ testimony who witnessed the Krajina massacres in 1995.31 Williamson, who described the shelling of Knin as a “minor incident,” said that the Pentagon had told him that Knin was a legitimate military target… The [Tribunal's] review concluded by voting not to include the shelling of Knin in any indictment, a conclusion that stunned and angered many at the tribunal”…32 The findings of the Tribunal contained in the leaked ICTY documents were downplayed, their relevance was casually dismissed as “expressions of opinion, arguments and hypotheses from various staff members of the OTP during the investigative process”.33 According to the Tribunal’s spokesperson “the documents do not represent in any way the concluded decisions of the Prosecutor.” 34 The internal 150 page report has not been released. The staff member who had leaked the documents is (according to a Croatian TV report) no longer working for the Tribunal. During the press Conference, the Tribunal’s spokesman was asked: “about the consequences for the person who leaked the information”, Blewitt [the ICTY spokesman] replied that he did not want to go into that. He said that the OTP would strengthen the existing procedures to prevent this from happening again, however he added that you could not stop people from talking”.35 THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN CROATIA The massacres conducted under Operation Storm “set the stage” for the “ethnic cleansing” of at least 180,000 Krajina Serbs (according to estimates of the Croatian Helsinki Committee and Amnesty International). According to other sources, the number of victims of ethnic cleansing in Krajina was much larger. Moreover, there are indications that chemical weapons may have been used in the Yugoslav civil war (1991-95).36 Although there is no firm evidence of the use of chemical weapons against Croatian Serbs, an ongoing enquiry by the Canadian Minister of Defence (launched in July 1999) points to the possibility of toxic poisoning of Canadian Peacekeepers while on service in Croatia between 1993 and 1995:

“There was a smell of blood in the air during the past week as the media sensed they had a major scandal unfolding within the Department of National Defense over the medical files of those Canadians who served in Croatia in 1993. Allegations of destroyed documents, a coverup, and a defensive minister and senior officers…”37

The official release of the Department of National Defence (DND) refers to possibility of toxic “soil contamination” in Medak Pocket in 1993 (see below). Was it “soil contamination” or something far more serious? The criminal investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) refers to the shredding of medical files of former Canadian peacekeepers by the DND. In other words did the DND have something to hide? The issue remains as to what types of shells and ammunitions were used by the Croatian Armed Forces ie. were chemical weapons used against Serb civilians?

OPERATION STORM: THE ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT

Prior to the onslaught, Croatian radio had previously broadcasted a message by president Franjo Tudjman, calling upon “Croatian citizens of Serbian ethnicity… to remain in their homes and not to fear the Croatian authorities, which will respect their minority rights.”38 Canadian peacekeepers of the Second Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment witnessed the atrocities committed by Croatian troops in the Krajina offensive in September 1995:

“Any Serb who had failed to evacuate their property were systematically “cleansed” by roving death squads. Every abandoned animal was slaughtered and any Serb household was ransacked and torched”.39

Also confirmed by Canadian peacekeepers was the participation of German mercenaries in Operation Storm: “Immediately behind the frontline Croatian combat troops and German mercenaries, a large number of hardline extremists had pushed into the Krajina. …Many of these atrocities were carried out within the Canadian Sector, but as the peacekeepers were soon informed by the Croat authorities, the UN no longer had any formal authority in the region.”40 How the Germans mercenaries were recruited was never officially revealed. An investigation by the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) confirmed the that foreign mercenaries in Croatia had in some cases “been paid [and presumably recruited] outside Croatia and by third parties.”41 THE 1993 MEDAK POCKET MASSACRE According to Jane Defence Weekly (10 June 1999), Brigadier General Agim Ceku (now in charge of the KLA) also “masterminded the successful HV [Croatian Army] offensive at Medak” in September 1993. In Medak, the combat operation was entitled “Scorched Earth” resulting in the total destruction of the Serbian villages of Divoselo, Pocitelj and Citluk, and the massacre of over 100 civilians.42 These massacres were also witnessed by Canadian peacekeepers under UN mandate: “As the sun rose over the horizon, it revealed a Medak Valley engulfed in smoke and flames. As the frustrated soldiers of 2PPCLI waited for the order to move forward into the pocket, shots and screams still rang out as the ethnic cleansing continued. …About 20 members of the international press had tagged along, anxious to see the Medak battleground. Calvin [a Canadian officer] called an informal press conference at the head of the column and loudly accused the Croats of trying to hide war crimes against the Serb inhabitants. The Croats started withdrawing back to their old lines, taking with them whatever loot they hadn’t destroyed. All livestock had been killed and houses torched. French reconnaissance troops and the Canadian command element pushed up the valley and soon began to find bodies of Serb civilians, some already decomposing, others freshly slaughtered. …Finally, on the drizzly morning of Sept. 17, teams of UN civilian police arrived to probe the smouldering ruins for murder victims. Rotting corpses lying out in the open were catalogued, then turned over to the peacekeepers for burial.”43 The massacres were reported to the Canadian Minister of Defence and to the United Nations:

“Senior defence bureaucrats back in Ottawa had no way of predicting the outcome of the engagement in terms of political fallout. To them, there was no point in calling media attention to a situation that might easily backfire. …So Medak was relegated to the memory hole no publicity, no recriminations, no official record. Except for those soldiers involved, Canada’s most lively military action since the Korean War simply never happened.”44

Notes

23. Quoted in Raymond Bonner, War Crimes Panel Finds Croat Troops Cleansed the Serbs, New York Times, 21 March 1999). 24. Ibid. 25. Ibid. 26. Raymond Bonner, op cit. 27. Ken Silverstein, “Privatizing War”, The Nation, New York, 27 July 1997. 28. See Mark Thompson et al, “Generals for Hire”, Time Magazine, 15 January 1996, p. 34. 29. Quoted in Silverstein, op cit. 30. Mark Thompson et al, op cit. 31. Raymond Bonner, op cit. 32. Ibid. 33. ICTY Weekly Press Briefing, 24 March 1999). 34. Ibid. 35. Ibid. 36. See inter alia Reuters dispatch, 21 October 1993 on the use of chemical grenades, a New York Times report on 31 October 1992 on the use of poisoned gas). 37. Lewis MacKenzie, “Giving our soldiers the benefit of the doubt”, National Post, 2 August 1999. 38. Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, Croatia, August 5 1996. 39. Scott Taylor and Brian Nolan, The Sunday Sun, Toronto, 2 November 1998. 40. Ibid. 41. United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-first session, Item 9 of the provisional agenda, Geneva, 21 December 1994). 42. (See Memorandum on the Violation of the Human and Civil Rights of the Serbian People in the Republic of Croatia, http://serbianlinks.freehosting.net/memorandum.htm 43. Excerpts from the book of Scott Taylor and Brian Nolan published in the Toronto Sun, 1 November 1998. 44. Ibid. ——————————————————————————————  Below is a reprint of  the “Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy” article from January 31, 1993, entitled:  ”Croatia, at a Key Strategic Crossroad, Builds Militarily and Geographically”

The January 25, 1993, Croatian National Guard’s surprise offensive into the Krijena region of what has now been recognized as part of the Croatian State was the start of the end of Croatia’s image abroad as the “injured party” in the current Balkan conflict. A tenuous peace had been in existence in and around the historically Serbian enclave of Krijena for more than a year. The main Croatian objective seemed to be to disrupt the Bosnia and Herzegovina peace negotiations which were coming to fruition in Geneva. The Croatian Government had said that it accepted the draft peace proposals for Bosnia and Herzegovina, but then intentionally ensured a breakdown in the overall Balkan peace process.

Croatia’s military objectives in the offensive were blurred. The stated intention of recovering the bridge which linked northern Croatia to its Dalmatian coastal region, and to seize the airport, were not valid. It was already clear that these targets were ready to be handed over peacefully by the Serbs as part of a long-term settlement which would have allowed the Krijena Serbs to administer their own affairs. The Krijena offensive demonstrated Croatian military strength, but it also raised the question to an international audience as to whether the shape of Croatia itself, so hastily agreed by the European community and then the UN, is in fact legal or valid. Krijena was never a Croat area, and, indeed, Dalmatia itself was historically never part of the region normally associated with Croatia.

The offensive sent US and EC military and political policymakers and analysts scurrying for information on Croatian military capability. Croatian secrecy meant that there was almost no information available. Croatia’s defense posture was, from the achievement of independence from the old state of Yugoslavia in 1991, conditioned primarily by the antagonism of the Croatian Government toward its neighbor, the “new” Yugoslavia. The Croatian Armed Forces, mainly built around the Croatian National Guard ground force, was created just before independence a a mobile, light force, relying heavily on German guidance and equipment, along with an assortment of illegally-acquired Western and Eastern bloc systems. The secondary consideration in the structure and mission of the Croatian Armed Forces rests in the country’s expansionist aims within the region. This includes projection into the neighboring former Yugoslav state, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where — by early 1993 — Croatia had deployed 65,000 ground troops in 10 to 12 brigades of its approximately 77 National Guard brigades. [See map: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, December 31, 1992. Croatian deployment into Bosnia and Herzegovina had reached only 40,000 by early December 1992.]

The Croatian Armed Forces acquired considerable quantities of weapons which had been cached in the republic by the old Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). In addition, during 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993, Croatia continued to acquire considerable quantities of Western and Eastern bloc equipment.

The effective annual defense expenditure of Croatia could not be easily identified, even by the Croatian Government. Much of the acquisition of weapons and systems has been undertaken through barter for Croatian goods and services, and much has been provided as covert aid from other friendly powers (Germany, principally is believed to have provided goods from the former East German Armed Forces inventory at little cost).

Weapons have come from a wide range of sources, even though German or other brokers participated in the embargo-busting. A squadron of ex-Soviet Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft was believed to have been negotiated from former Soviet stocks in the now-independent Republic of Georgia.

The principal force in the Croatian Armed Forces is the National Guard (Army). The Air Force began to acquire aircraft in 1992, however, and acquired the former Yugoslav Air Force bases which had been located in Croatia.

The Air Force itself is primarily equipped with former Soviet combat aircraft, although the international embargo on the provision of weapons into the region has meant that, by working illegally around the United Nations sanctions, Croatia has obtained a variety of different aircraft.

The Croatian Navy, formed on the effective secession of Croatia from Yugoslavia in 1991, inherited few vessels from the Yugoslav Navy. All mobile vessels in the Yugoslav Navy moved from Croatian ports, which had been its main bases for more than seven decades, to Montenegrin ports. Only those vessels left in drydock in such Croatian ports as Split and Dubrovnik were left by the Yugoslav Navy for Croatia. These totaled only some 13 patrol vessels.

No clear definition was available as to the command and control structure of the Croatian Armed Forces at the start of 1993. A number of ultra-nationalist Croatian forces were created in Croatia, and within the Croat community in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1990 and afterwards. The extent of control over these groups by the Government varies.

Croatia’s defense industrial capacity is fairly well advanced, despite the fact that some of the machinery and expertise in the facilities created by the Yugoslav Government was withdrawn when Croatia seceded from the federation. Croatian small arms factories are producing weapons, including an indigenously designed submachinegun, and it is believed that the M-84 main battle tank production line has been re-opened. This is highly significant in terms of its contribution to Croatia’s order of battle. The M-84 is a highly-successful development of the Soviet T-72 design, but with far greater fire control sophistication. Kuwait, which has the M-84 (the only export customer from the old Yugoslavia), claims it to be superior to the US General Dynamics M-1A1 MBT.

It is believed also that the M-84 production line has been re-established inside new Yugoslavia, based on capacity and expertise removed at the time the federation began to break up.

Croatia, once part of Yugoslavia and before that part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is a crescent-shaped Balkan state in Europe, bordered on the north-west by Slovenia; on the west by the (Yugoslav) Serbian district of Vojvodina; on the north-east by Hungary; and on the west and north-east by Bosnia and Herzegovina. To the south-west it faces the Adriatic Sea.

Croatia, which had never in the modern context been an independent state, was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of World War I. The end of that conflict, and the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, caused the Croatian National Sabor (parliament) to vote on October 28, 1918, for Croatia and Slavonia, with Rijeka and Dalmatia, to secede from Austria-Hungary. At the same time, a general convention in Ljubljana announced Slovenia’s secession from Austria and its unification with Croatia and Serbia. The state of the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs was formed, and a parliament created for the new multi-state entity: the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, based in Zagreb.

On November 24, 1918, a special mission was appointed by the National Council to negotiate with the Government of Serbia. The negotiations resulted in the creation of the united Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December 20, 1918, under the national leadership of what had, until that time, been the Serbian crown. When they joined the new Yugoslav Kingdom in 1918, Croatia and Slavonia with Srem had a territory of 42,533 sq.km. Medjumurje, totalling 775 sq.km. in area, was also under the jurisdiction of the Government of Croatia and Slavonia. [Modern Croatia, the boundaries of which were formed later by the Croatian leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz "Tito," now has a territorial area of 56,538 sq.km., the additional land having been taken away from Serbia and what had been Dalmatia.] Dalmatia was an independent state at the time of its accession to the Yugoslav state, and had been self-governing since ancient times. Dalmatia’s earlier roots had been with the Venetian Republic, unlike Croatia’s roots in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, commonly known as Yugoslavia, the land of the Southern Slavs, changed its name officially on October 3, 1929, to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Croatia, coming under the Austro-Hungarian Empire for many centuries, was European in orientation. Its language — Serbo-Croat — is almost identical to the language spoken by Serbs, but it is written in Latin characters, whereas Serbian is written in cyrillic characters. As well, because of its history, Croatia has traditionally been a Roman Catholic Christian area, whereas Serbs have traditionally been Serbian Orthodox Christians.

Yugoslavia was originally divided into 32 administrative districts and then, in 1929, into banovine (regional units ruled by a ban). This new set of internal districts was not based on nationalism (ie: ethnicity), but on economic, geographic and other criteria.

Croatia, despite the fact that it had voted to join into the new Yugoslavia, remained passionately nationalistic throughout the years between 1918 and the start of World War II in 1939. That war was to prove the watershed for Yugoslavia, which stood in the path of Germany’s access to the Eastern Mediterranean, an area vital to German reach toward the Middle Eastern oil reserves, and, among other things, the East-West trade links through the Suez Canal. the Armed Forces of Adolf Hitler’s nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia without declaring war on April 6, 1941.

The surprise attack left Yugoslavia at Hitler’s mercy, and an “Independent State of Croatia” (Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska: NDH) was declared on April 14, 1941, the same day the German 14th Tank Division entered the Croatian capital, Zagreb. The NDH and the Croatian people as a whole overwhelmingly embraced the new German overlords of the “independent” state under the fascist head-of-state, Poglavnik (leader) Ante pavelic, head of the Ustaše movement.

The new NDH Government worked actively with the Germans to implement “ethnic cleansing” programs, but broadened the scope of the campaign to include the eradication of all Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. The NDH Government, through Dr Milovan Zanic, said at the time: “This will be a country of Croats and none other, and we as Ustaše will use every possible method to make this country truly Croat and purge it of the Serbs. We are not hiding this, it will be the policy of this state and when it is carried out, we will be carrying out what is written down in the Ustaše principles.” The accession of the new NDH Government brought about an immediate campaign of genocide, principally against the Serbs, but also against Jews and Gypsies.

The NDH Government lasted only as long as Germany’s nazi Third Reich survived, and collapsed in 1945. By that time, however, the NDH and its Ustaše Government had killed at least one-million Serbs, most of them by methods so brutal that German officers attached to Ustaše units complained to Berlin about the barbarity of their hosts.

The NDH Government established the largest concentration camp in the Third Reich at Jasenovac in August 1941. The Jasenovac Concentration and Labour Camp covered 210 sq.km. in the area around the confluence of the Una and Sava rivers, and comprised a series of specialist camps, including at least one for infants. Jasenovac itself saw the deaths of some 600,000 people in 1,334 days and nights of killing. Some 20,000 children under the age of 14 were killed in the Jasenovac sub-camp at Donja Gradina. Roman Catholic Croatian priests worked actively to support the Ustaše, and one was commandant of Jasenovac for four months (during which time he personally killed at least 100 people and sent some 30,000 more to their deaths). [See also, Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, December 31, 1992.]

The end of World War II saw the collapse of the Nazi puppet NDH state. Most of its leaders, and the Ustaše who were involved in the mass killings, fled the country. Ante Pavelic himself fled into Austria, where he was protected in Roman Catholic churches. From there, he fled to Rome with the help of false papers provided by the Roman Catholic church, and he his there in the Croatian Roman Catholic sanctuary of the Vatican, known as the San Geronimo Brotherhood. When it was known that the United States security forces were attempting to capture him, Pavelic was smuggled out by the brotherhood to Argentina, where he became a security adviser to Argentine President Juan Peron. Pavelic died peacefully in Argentina some years later. The Peronist Government subsequently gave 35,000 Ustaše visas to enter Argentina.

The comprehensive escape route and support apparatus for Ustaše war criminals became known as the “ratlines.” Many of its membership were to return for the independence celebrations of the new state of Croatia when it once again became independent — again with the help of Germany — in 1991.

The collapse of Germany and the NDH saw the revival of a unified Yugoslavia, under the leadership of the communist partisan leader Josip Broz, known as Marshal Tito. Tito’s partisans were under the control of his Communist Part of Yugoslavia, an organisation which had been initially established by the Soviet Comintern (Communist International). Leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia during that period was substantially Croat and Slovene. But the partisans had also received considerable Allied assistance during World War II, to bolster the fight against the occupying German forces. The Allies had, in fact, favored Tito, despite his communism, over the royalist Col. Drazu Mihajlovic and his cetnik forces, which would have favored the restoration of the exiled monarchical Government after the ouster of the nazis.

The victorious Allies recognized the new Government under the Croatian communist Tito, who, on November 28, 1945, named the “second Yugoslavia” as the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia at a session of the Constituent Assembly. The Federal People’s Assembly, on April 7, 1963, re-named it The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Tito, who was to all intents the sovereign leader of Yugoslavia until his death, decreed that no discussion was to take place of the Croatian genocidal war against Serbia, and in the years that followed none of the anti-communist Croats in exile were seriously harried by Tito’s security forces. Serbian anti-communist exiles were, however, constantly harried, even in remote countries such as Australia or the United States. As a result, an effective and wealthy expatriate Croatian community grew up outside the country.

During this period Croatia and Slovenia maintained their own national communist parties, while there was no communist party in Serbia. As a result, with the backing of the Comintern, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the new, post-World War II communist leadership of Yugoslavia was heavily structured in favor of the Croats and Slovenes, and against the Serbs. The Communist Party was the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 until the multi-party elections in the national republics in 1990.

During World War II, even before the occupying Germans were removed, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, under Tito, determined the new internal boundaries of the post-war federation. These federal units, or republics, reflected the decisive input of Tito and the Slovenian, Edvard Kardelj. As a result, post-war Yugoslavia showed internal federal, or republican, boundaries within what became known as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), which favored Croatia and Slovenia territorially. There was little historical justification, for example, in lumping Dalmatia into Croatia, other than to give that republic strong sea access.

Tito knew that these artificial boundaries would not be accepted as “national” units, despite the fact that they bore nominal designation as the Republics of Croatia, Republic of Slovenia, etc. There was no discussion of these boundaries in legal terms either before the creation of the SFRY or afterwards. Tito himself said that the frontiers between the internal Yugoslav republics were only “administrative.” Despite this “assurance,” it was this boundary structure which was to be used as the legal definition of what were to become, in 1991, the independent and sovereign states of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro.

Tito was particularly suspicious of the Serbs who, although they were the most committed to the concept of a federal Yugoslav entity, were also regarded as the fount of the monarchy and “intrinsically monarchist,” as opposed to communist. The result was that Croats and Slovenes were moved into the position of greatest power within Yugoslavia, despite the fact that some 70 percent of the officers in the Yugoslav Armed Forces were Serbs.

Tito died in May 1980, and was succeeded by a Collective Presidency which, despite the nationalist aspirations which began to re-surface, managed to hold Yugoslavia together until the 1990 multi-party elections. The new Government in Slovenia unilaterally declared its sovereignty, and then its independence from Yugoslavia, in 1991. Slovenia’s independence and sovereignty were immediately, and unilaterally, recognized by Germany, forcing other European Community states, and then the United States, into recognizing the new status.

Meanwhile, in Croatia, the HDZ had won control of the Sabor on May 30, 1990, and had elected Dr Franjo Tudjman as President of the Republic. The Republic of Croatia was, at this time, still part of the broader Yugoslav Federation.

The German recognition of Slovenia pre-empted any opportunity for a peaceful break-up of the SFRY. Croatia followed Slovenia’s lead, with Germany’s support, declaring its independence and sovereignty. First, the sovereignty of Croatia was declared by the ruling HDZ in the Sabor on December 22, 1990. A new Croatian constitution was introduced by President Tudjman defining the state as the national state of the Croatian people “and others,” immediately and pointedly relegating the Serbs, Muslims, Slovenes, Czechs, Italians, Jews, Hungarians and others to second-class status.

By early 1991, Croatia was preparing for full unilateral separation from Yugoslavia. A rally at the Zagreb football stadium on May 28, 1991, saw the parading of a large, well-equipped Croatian Army unit, which was inspected by Pres. Tudjman and other senior ministers. This was the National Guard Corps, which formed the basis of the new Croatian Armed Forces, along with the Ministry of Interior Affairs units, and “volunteer units.”

The first Minister of Interior Affairs in the HDZ Government, Martin Spegelj, was a senior general in the Yugoslav Armed Forces (JNA) at the time of the creation of the new Croatia. He said, on January 20, 1991, while the JNA was still officially the common army of Yugoslavia: “We are in the war with [ie: against] the Army (JNA). Should anything happen, kill them all in the streets, in their homes, through hand grenades, fire pistols in their bellies, women, children . . . We will deal with [the Croatian Serbian area of] Knin by butchering . . .” The new Croatian offensive of January 1993 was aimed directly at Knin, the capital of the historically Serb region of Krijena.

The rallies announcing Croatia’s new freedom were marked by the official showing of the new State’s symbols, which included the same red-and-white chequerboard shield which the Ustasha used before and during World War II. President Tudjman had already made his position clear: he invited to the first Convention of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in Zagreb more than a hundred Ustaše who had been declared war criminals as a result of World War II. They had come back to Croatia, often with their sons, from hiding in such countries as Australia, Argentina and elsewhere. At that convention, Tudjman defended the 1941-45 Independent State of Croatia as being not merely a “quisling creation,” but also “an expression of the historical aspirations of the Croatian people for an independent state of their own and recognition of international factors — the Government of Hitler’s Germany in this case.”

Revival of Croatian genocide against the Serbian residents of the state began before mid-year, 1991. Many Croatian Serbs packed, and began fleeing to Serbia where, by early 1993, there were some 800,000 refugees from the violence of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many left the Balkans altogether. By late 1991, Croatia began an organised elimination of Serbs in the districts of Grubisno Polje, Moslavina and Slavonska Pozegra. Many Serb residents fled first to Bosnia, and then were forced by additional fighting to flee to Serbia. The campaign by the Croatian Armed Forces spread throughout the republic wherever there were Serb villages or communities.

The violence against Serbs — the “ethnic cleansing” of Croatia — revived on a scale and method which reminded the victims of the genocidal actions during the 1941-45 days of the Independent State of Croatia. Some 450 Serbian Orthodox churches had been destroyed by Croats in that conflict. Between the beginning of 1991 and early 1993, Croats and Bosnian Muslims had destroyed a further 300 Serbian Orthodox churches.

The JNA was still officially engaged as the rear guard of the old Yugoslavia in 1991, and attempted vainly to withdraw without conflict into the new boundaries which were being created de facto for Yugoslavia: the boundaries of the states of Serbia and Montenegro. But there were aras where the JNA tried to stop the renewed genocide against the Serbian and other minority communities. Serbian groups within Croatia rallied and formed units such as the Serbian Volunteer Guards, and fought alongside the JNA in Laslovo and other areas, and in the attempt to free the city of Vukovar from Croatian control before all the Serbian residents were killed.

The Croatian Ustaše regarded Vukovar as one of the most important targets in the (1941-45) Independent State of Croatia. In one drive alone, during World War II, the Ustaše killed some 10,000 Serbian residents of Vukovar and surrounding areas. The Ustaše again took control of Vukovar and neighboring borovo between June 1 and November 23, 1991. At the Borovo footware factory at the exit from Vukovar, the Croats established a new concentration camp, rounding up and interning local Serbian civilians. At this site the Croats interned some 5,000 Serbs, and there and at the Rowing Club of Vukovar, the almost ritualistic killing of Serbs began again. The basement of the Borovo-komerc concentration camp also housed the headquarters of Marko Filkovic, commanding officer of the ZNG, the official Croatian National Guard Corps. More than 1,000 Serbs died in these two facilities, and on the streets and in their homes, before the JNA fought its way into Vukovar on November 23, 1991.

It was during the Vukovar conflict that the Croatian authorities began successfully experimenting with image-manipulating propaganda, forcing captured and inured Serbs to state in the Vukovar hospital, in front of video cameras, that they were being well-treated. Videotape was released to the international media and broadcast extensively worldwide. The statement did not save the prisoners, who were subsequently killed.

Germany was by this time fully supporting Croatia, and providing it with arms and other military supplies (as it had done before the official break with Yugoslavia). Germany’s support contravened German and international laws, but fell in line with a German strategic outreaching of a type not seen since the end of World War II.

Pres. Tudjman claimed during 1991 and 1992 that Croatia was part of the European democratic and free market system, but some 90 percent of the economy by early 1993 was still in state hands, and the democratic freedoms typical in the rest of Europe were increasingly not in evidence in Croatia at that time. Freedom of speech was being curtailed throughout the country. The media was purged of Serbs, and editors — particularly in Dalmatia, which was never historically part of Croatia — were forced to toe a strict HDZ party line.

The HDZ, by late 1992, was attempting to assume the mantle of a Christian Democratic party, of the type prominent in Western Europe, despite the fact that its leadership was comprised largely of former senior communists of the Titoist and post-Tito SFRY years.

Croatia had, by late 1992, deployed some 40,000 of its forces, in 10 to 12 brigades, and backed by at least 60 main battle tanks and 80 heavy artillery pieces, into Bosnia and Herzegovina to aid Croats of that state to combat Serbs and Muslims, and sometimes to work with Muslims against Serbs. By early January 1993, the deployment had escalated to 65,000 troops. As well, Pres. Tudjman in 1991 ordered all the buildings and remaining structures at the World War II concentration camp of Jasenovac to be razed — with many of the artifacts and records inside — to make way for a “rare bird sanctuary”. The move destroyed one of the reminders of Ustaše genocide of World War II, while the World War II Ustaše flag has been raised again.

Despite Tudjman’s attempts to align with the European Christian Democratic movement, Croatia has been edging closer toward a one-party state structure. Tudjman does not stand on the extreme right of Croatian politics, despite his clear support for Ustaše genocidal and national-socialist [Nazi] policies. His move to have the HDZ totally dominate Croatian politics is a move to eliminate the ultra-Ustaše elements who feel that the President is not sufficiently rabid in his prosecution of Croatian geographic expansion and ethnic purity. He is, nonetheless, moving rapidly toward consolidating Croatia’s current geographic gains.

By Felix Quigley

Carl Savich who is associated with www.serbianna.com has written a review of a book about Yugoslavia, which is of immense importance to the person trying to get a more comprehensive understanding of the many strands, which went to make up the total destruction of the state which was known for a hundred years plus as Yugoslavia. The book in question is written by a German, married to a Croatian, going by the name of Kurt Kepruner. I will intersperse with a few comments of my own which I will place in italic. The rest is Carl Savich and Kurt Kapruner. I have found it fascinating because it joins so many strands together. Let Carl Savich take it up:

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Kurt Kepruner is a mechanical engineer by training who was born in Austria and who now lives in Regensburg, Germany. He spent 10 years in Yugoslavia. His wife Jadranka is from Croatia. He witnessed the key events in Yugoslavia as the republics descended into civil war and secession from 1990 to 2000. Kepruner was present at the outbreak of hostilities in Zadar in Croatia as he traveled with his wife. Later he traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo.

Kepruner was struck by the anti-Serbian slant of German and Austrian media reporting. He noticed that Western media coverage was based on a black and white stereotypical or propaganda view of the conflict. From the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbs and Serbia were demonized and satanized in racist terms. This anti-Serbian and anti-Semitic racism had not been seen in Europe since World War II.

 As an eyewitness to the conflict, Kepruner was able to compare his own personal experiences of the conflict to what the Western media was reporting. He found that there was a blatant, one-sided propaganda war by the Western governments and the Western media. The Serbian Orthodox population and Serbia were blamed and held responsible for everything that happened in Yugoslavia during the breakup of the country.

Kepruner decided to publish his own personal observations and recollections of the breakup of Yugoslavia in 2001. The book is entitled Travels in a Land of War: Experiences of a Stranger in Yugoslavia. The book appeared originally in German and has since been translated into Japanese and Serbian, but remains unavailable in English.

Kepruner sought to explain why Western media reporting was unfair, biased, deceptive, and belligerent. He was perplexed because he found that the media perception or image of the Yugoslav conflict was totally opposite of what he knew to be the reality. The epigraph of the book is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche from The Gay Science (1882): “What are man’s truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.” And in war, as Kepruner found out, this is always true.

 Yugoslavia began unraveling and falling apart in 1990. Kepruner was there to witness it. Driving with his wife in Croatia, Kepruner noticed that road blocks had been set. He saw graffiti on Serbian houses in Zadar: “Srbima smrt” (“Death to Serbs”). He also remembers seeing this written on a Serbian house: “Tudjman = Bog” (“Tudjman is God”), referring to Croatian ultra-nationalist President Franjo Tudjman, a former Communist general who morphed into a neo-Ustasha, anti-Semite, neo-Nazi right-wing ultra-nationalist. Tudjman had exploited Croatian nationalism by reviving the Nazi and Ustasha ideology from World War II that envisioned a Croatia that was ethnically cleansed of Serbs. He promised to finish the job that Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelic began by getting rid of the Krajina Serbs.

Kepruner saw evidence of this revival of Nazism and the Ustasha ideology in graffiti on Serbian houses in Zadar. He noticed that a large “U” and the letters “NDH” had been written on Serbian houses. “U” stood for “Ustasha” while “NDH” stood for Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, Independent State of Croatia, the Nazi proxy state that Adolf Hitler created in the Balkans. Kepruner explained that these symbols “here have the same symbolism as the swastika has with us.” The effect would be similar to someone painting a Nazi swastika on the home of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust in Israel or someone burning a cross and painting the letters “KKK” on the house of an African-American in the South. This was blatant neo-Nazi, neo-fascist racism, a revival of Nazism and Adolf Hitler’s and Ante Pavelic’s legacy in the Balkans. This was explosive and dramatic. But he noticed that none of this was being reported in the US or Western media.

He described how he saw houses being systematically blown up around Zadar, “blown in the air”, “kucu dignutu u vazduh”. He witnessed one particular incident himself. The house belonged to a Croatian woman who had been married to a Serb. They had been teachers. Her husband had died several years earlier. A Croatian dressed in black told him how the houses were being destroyed, that you pump the basement of the house with gasoline, and, “boom, it is finished”. He described seeing many destroyed Serbian houses in Zadar. The Serbs had fled, having been ethnically cleansed out of their homes. Ironically, the destroyed Serbian houses were depicted to tourists as examples of “Serbian terror”.

He noticed a fanatical anti-Serbian and anti-Semitic racism and ethnic hatred spurred on by the Croatian government and media. The German magazine Der Spiegel had noted in 1990 how Tudjman’s HDZ party sought to create a Greater Croatia that would also include large parts of neighboring Bosnia-Hercegovina. Croats spoke of “pure blood” and a “pure race”, “ciste rase”, and “pure Croatian blood”, “cisto krvni Hrvat”. Kepruner described this as a “renaissance” of Ustasha racism. Before the emergence of Tudjman’s anti-Serbian, anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist racism, the people of Yugoslavia had seen themselves as a single, united people. It did not matter whether one was a Croat, a Serb, or a Muslim. He was told that: “This was just never the question.” But this all changed in 1990.

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To interpose with my opinion on this vital matter. It is now fairly well known that the speech which Milosevic made in 1988 in Kosovo was a speech in favour of multiculturalism and that this speech has been rewritten by the Media in the most blatant manner. The Irish newspaper of record, The Irish Times, actually placed words uttered by Milosevic in quotation marks. For journalists this has great moment. But Milosevic, as Francisco Gil- White pointed out, did not say those words. They were lies and a forgery really. The Irish Times has never answered my e-mail to its editor on this lie. On this site we are not saying the Serbs are wonderful, etc. We are not partisan in that way at all. What we are saying is that there were historical reasons for the Serbs to be multiculturalists in a certain sense, and that was because they were geographically scattered. They had a large minority in Croatia, also in Bosnia, also in Kosovo and these minorities in each situation were vulnerable to Fascist (in the ethnic sense) forces. A little like the Protestants in Southern Ireland post 1921 Independence. These factors also tended to make the Serbs in the Second World War the best defenders of the Jews and the best fighters against the Nazis. All of that is fact and all of that has had to be distorted as this fascinating review by Savich, with the help of Kepruner, is going to show even more clearly, as we get further into this article

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He witnessed how the Croatian government and media were seeking to provoke a conflict. He heard how Croatian soldiers revived Ustasha sayings: “They wanted to see Serbian blood.” The Croat red and white checkerboard symbol was reintroduced in a provocative and flagrant way. While this was an ancient Croatian symbol which the Josip Broz Tito regime retained, the Tudjman regime magnified its symbolic significance by increasing its prominence in the way the Ustasha NDH regime had done. There was an Ustasha renaissance that entailed a purge of everything that was non-Croat.

The Tudjman regime began with a purge of all non-Croats in state offices. Serbian journalists in the media were fired. Serb teachers were fired. The Croatian media organized a campaign against Serbs and everything Serbian, Yugoslavia, and the JNA. Croatian superiority and racism were promoted. Kepruner was told: “Serbs are inferior to Croats, they have smaller skulls and smaller brains.” Croatia is for Croats only, while Serbs are deemed a minority. Armed Croat interior ministry troops were encouraged to attack Serbs. The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was outlawed. Serbs were evicted from government housing. Streets were renamed after Nazi/Ustasha leaders such as Mile Budak, a racist ideologue of the NDH regime. The Croat police and military forces began wearing the “U” symbol which had the same symbolism as a Nazi swastika. The police tolerated private acts of ethnic cleansing and terror against “Croatian Serbs” which Kepruner described as a “Dalmatian Kristallnacht”.

Serbs in Croatia wanted autonomy like Kosovo Albanians had received from Serbia. The Krajina Serbs only wanted what the Kosovo Albanian minority had. Tudjman, however,  categorically rejected any Kosovo-style autonomy in September, 1990. None of this was revealed in the Western media. At the minimum, a Kosovo-style autonomy for Krajina could have been granted before recognition which would have prevented a civil war. The war that erupted in Croatia was foreseeable and could easily have been prevented. It was based on lies and deception.

In Bosnia, Kepruner found the same reckless determination to foment war by lies and deceptions. Alija Izetbegovic never concealed the fact that he was a Muslim ultra-nationalist who modeled his regime on the Ayatollah Khomeini regime in Iran. Izetbegovic proclaimed a policy of “mono-culturalism” in his book The Islamic Declaration (1970; republished, 1990).

Kepruner noticed that in US and Western propaganda, Izetbegovic was portrayed as a “multi-culturalist”, a secular, Muslim leader who followed Kemal Ataturk. This was the Big Lie of US propaganda. On March 17, 1992, the three factions in Bosnia had agreed to the Lisbon Plan which prevented any war and resulted in a peaceful resolution of the Bosnia secession. The US, however, was not content with peace and advised the Bosnian Muslim faction to reject the plan. What followed was a four-way civil war between Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, Bosnian Muslims under Fikret Abdic, and Bosnian Muslims under Alija Izetbegovic.

Ruder Finn, a US PR firm based in Washington, DC,  manufactured Holocaust propaganda in tandem with the US and Western media. James Harff of Ruder-Finn admitted the propaganda strategy was to associate the Holocaust and “genocide” propaganda to the Bosnian conflict to help the Bosnian Muslim faction. One absurd example of this Western propaganda was the accusation of the Bosnian Muslim faction against the Canadian UN commander in Bosnia, Lewis MacKenzie, who was accused of having raped a Bosnian Muslim girl in a Serbian rape camp. MacKenzie was unpopular because he was neutral and objective in the conflict. Kepruner recounted the propaganda of the Bosnian conflict beginning with the Breadline Massacre, the Markale I, and Markale II Massacres. The Bosnian conflict consisted of atrocity propaganda. The most absurd propaganda hoax was the alleged evidence of Bosnian Serb Nazi concentration camps, which was manufactured by ITN.

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This is the great importance in my opinion of the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora studying Yugoslavia. I think Carl Savich in his deep study and understanding of the Yugoslav issue has hit the nail on the head here. Remember the long, long period of propaganda against the Jews in Germany by the Nazis, going on for maybe as much as two decades of intensifying hate in order to prepare for the final Holocaust. In Yugoslavia there was another twist of the Nazi knife through this method of “atrocity” propagandizing lies.

Think about it. We have the film of an Arab Palestinian man “dead” being carried along in a coffin, being photographed, falling off the coffin three times until finally the farce is ended and he (the dead man) scampers off over the field. Comical but in the field of Nazi propaganda deadly serious.

So along then with this book by Kepruner we must also be led into the whole story of Mohammed el Dura and France 2 where a whole politically based theatre was being enacted as Arab stringers for the main Western Press, for papers like The Times etc did their work, which entailed Arab youth running across a space of ground, suddenly they leap in the air, bodies contort in agony, sprawl on the ground “lifeless”, but the photos and reels being taken, they get up and make their way to the starting point again.

Then with that the use of ambulances. The use of bodies sometimes fake, sometimes of terrorists killed in battle. We have learned that the Arabs are carrying on this as black and brutal theatre against the Jews.

There is a long list. As noted there is the Muhammed el Dura case, Qana 1 and 2, the Gaza Beach Bomb, and many more, but preceding all of those the Dir Yassin “Massacre”, although in that latter the right wing and traitorous Labourist leadership of Israel was also involved (in order to discredit the Revisionist patriots) And this long list joins up seamlessly with the Markale bombs, with Racak, with Srebrenica and with the Krajina.

But the issue is so endemic in the system that we can go on and note the propaganda against Russia and China, note the lies of the British Secret Service in the Litvinenko affair, and the recent spate of lies surrounding the anti-Communist Dalai Lama.

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Kepruner saw that the Bosnia propaganda analogy was being transferred and transposed to the Kosovo conflict. Kepruner found that the long-standing ideology of a Greater Albania was covered-up in the Western media. He noticed that the creation of a Greater Albania that included Kosovo by Adolf Hitler during World War II was covered-up in the West. The Kosovo Albanian policy of ethnically cleansing Kosovo Serbs was also suppressed and covered-up. Kepruner found that this separatist and secessionist conflict to create a racist Greater Albania was covered-up completely in the Western media.

The Albanian goal to create a Greater Albania began on July 2, 1990, when the “Republic of Kosovo” was proclaimed. Like the Krajina and Bosnian Serbs, the Albanians wanted self-rule and autonomy. But the US and Western governments and media had a double standard regarding these conflicts. Bosnian Serb and Krajina Serb attempts to achieve “independence” were rejected by the Western governments and their media, while Albanian “independence” was supported. This hypocrisy and double-standard was best exemplified by the flip-flop on the separatist conflict in Kosovo-Metohija. On February 23, 1998, Robert Gelbard of the US State Department had declared that the KLA was a “terrorist” organization. But seemingly overnight, the KLA “terrorists” morphed into mujahedeen-style “freedom fighters”. How did “terrorists” become “freedom fighters”?

Kepruner saw the objective of US and Western policy towards Yugoslavia was to destroy or defeat Serbia, which was perceived as the sole obstacle to the NATO expansion into the Balkans. This was the real objective of Western policy in the Balkans throughout the 1990s. The US wanted total control and hegemony in the Balkans. And Serbia was the only hindrance to that goal. Kepruner pointed to a statement that Klaus Kinkel, German foreign minister, made in 1992: “Our policy is to bring Serbia to its knees.” To achieve this objective in Kosovo, the US and Germany created the KLA, a proxy terrorist army.

The aftermath of the 1999 US- and German-led NATO bombing and occupation of Serbia proved these assumptions. After the NATO occupation of Kosovo in the summer of 1999, 180,000 Kosovo Serbs, Roma, and Jews were registered as refugees in Belgrade by the UN. US and NATO propaganda claimed that 100,000 Kosovo Albanians were killed in a “genocide”. But these were all lies and falsifications. NATO killed more Serbian and Albanian civilians as “collateral damage” than occurred during the “genocide”. In all, 2,000 died on all sides, which included Serbs, Albanians, and Roma. Many of the deaths were related to military combat. Absurdly, the cure was worse than the disease. Kepruner noted that the NATO occupation had made the humanitarian situation worse in Kosovo. Over 200,000 Kosovo Serbs, Roma, and Jews were driven out. Over 150 Serbian Orthodox Churches had been destroyed by Albanian extremists. The remaining Kosovo Serbs lived in Nazi-like ghettos in Kosovo. All the Kosovo Jews fled to Belgrade. There were now no more Jews in Kosovo. The Roma population of Kosovo was also destroyed after the NATO occupation. What NATO achieved was a racially and ethnically pure Albanian Kosovo. NATO achieved what Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler could not.

Kepruner found that all this was covered-up and suppressed in the so-called Western media. None of this was reported in Germany, Austria, the US, UK, or any other Western media. There was a massive propaganda war against the Serbian population and against Serbia. What Kepruner found was that this unprecedented propaganda war, not seen in Europe since Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, was orchestrated and masterminded not in Zagreb, Tirana, Sarajevo, or Belgrade, but in Bonn, London, Paris, Rome, and Washington, DC. This Nazi-like demonization and racist satanization of all Serbs was the work of the NATO countries. It had its nexus in Washington, DC.

There was a systematic, organized, and planned disinformation and propaganda campaign organized by the Western countries. This was a time when Communism was collapsing in Europe and the New World Order was emerging. But was this an example of the free and independent media of the “free world”? It was ironic that the Western media techniques were almost identical to the Nazi Gleichschaltung and agitprop techniques of the USSR, totalitarian techniques to win “the hearts and minds” of the masses. Why was the “free world” using totalitarian propaganda and brainwashing and persuasion techniques? This is what Kepruner wanted to know. This is something we all want to know.

The book has received favorable reviews but has been ignored in the US and the West. David Binder, a journalist for The New York Times, had this to say about the book from Washington, DC, on August 25, 2002:

 Kurt Koepruner’s Travels reads like a deep, fascinating and lengthy conversation in a Balkan cafe with a pleasant stranger who has taken great pains to find out what he can about his surroundings. His eyes and ears are wide open and so are his mind and heart. This makes him a wonderful guide through valleys of truths and mountains of lies on a tortuous journey through the four Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Fittingly he has dedicated his work “standing in for all the victims of the Balkan wars” to four women, a Croat, a Bosnian, an Albanian and a Serb, who helped him understand the many facets of the Yugoslav tragedy.

Kepruner is not a tenured professor or journalist or politician. Thus, he has no stake in the conflict. He does not have to delude himself with rationalizations and ex post facto justifications. He can tell it like he sees it. And he does that. He doesn’t have axes to grind or agendas to advance. He is not pushing or selling the New World Order. Indeed, he is not selling anything. He does not have a pet Balkans people that he makes his own. He is not espousing a Greater Albania, a Greater Croatia, or a Greater Bosnia. He is not engaged in the policy of divide and conquer. He knows the former Yugoslavia was made of many different peoples and many different cultures and religions and languages. He implicitly knows that there are no “evil” or “good” people in the former Yugoslavia. Each group has its own interests that it wants to protect. He sees through all the hyperbole and platitudes. In short, his account is balanced, sane, and unbiased. Naturally, it is unpopular and is dismissed in the US and the West. It has been translated into Serbian and Japanese from the original German but remains un-translated into English.

This book points to a way out of the madness and hell of the Balkans conflicts. Common human decency is what is needed. Common human decency leads to sanity and is what unites us all. This is how to get out of the moral morass of the Balkans. Throw away that mindless claptrap and intellectualized drivel written by Balkans “experts” and “professors” and “think tanks” and non-governmental organizations. This is the only book you will need. Travels in the Land of War by Kurt Kepruner is the best book on the Balkans. This is the only book you need to understand the Balkan conflicts.

This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the breakup of Yugoslavia, and not merely read propaganda or the endless “scholarly” books by Balkans “experts”. It is essential for those who want to understand war and what it does to human beings. It also shows us the way out of the madness of racial, ethnic, religious hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and ultra-nationalism. We all have a common decency as human beings that unites us all. It is also an anti-war book because it shows how governments and the media manipulate people into racial hatred and bigotry. It shows how all wars start. It is not by accident that it is not available in English.

There is an enduring lesson we can take away from Travels. All wars are based in lies and rely on dehumanization, a self-induced delusional state. All wars begin with lies we tell ourselves. The first thing we kill in all wars is our own humanity, our common sense of decency. Aeschylus had it right 2,500 years ago. And Kurt Kepruner got it right in 2001. But we never learn anything from history. With every new war, we engage in the same ritualistic self-delusion and self-deception.

Travels in a Land of War is the best account of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It is a must-read and is highly recommended. This is the first book on the Balkans that I did not have to hold my nose in reading. This is a book that everyone should read.

start final comment here  FQ

The article above by Carl Savich is in an article titled “First Casualty of War” which I saw on the site www.serbianna.com, a really important site for those of us who are following the continually changing events in the Balkans, a site that everybody should look into all the time.

It is really alarming that this book has not been translated and published in English. But that is not surprising. There is a cabal of journalists which represents the very rottenness of British capitalism in decline, centred around Hary’s Place, around Kamm and Hoare, and extending into the Guardian and Independent in particular who have used every trick in the book to stop the truth about Yugoslavia being told. Jewish people of Israel will note that it is this Media which is also so hostile to Israel and so supportive of the Nazi Palestinian cause.

end comment here  FQ

Posted by Nathan Pearlstein

Hiding Genocide

The Balkan Conflict: The Psychological Strategy Aspects

Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy
Volume XX, Number 12, December 31, 1992
p.4-9

Croatia has resumed its “liquidation” of Serbs, while arguing that “ethnic cleansing” is a Serbian creation . . .

“The Big Lie” technique is alive and well. Croatia has used the media and skilful image manipulation to hide its renewed genocide against the Serbs while at the same time ensuring that Serbs are themselves wrongly accused of the same type of crime, and more.

Editor-in-Chief Gregory Copley reports from the Balkans.

To Forget Jasenovac

Croatian President Franjo Tudjman took immediate steps, once his power was secure in the newly-recognized State of Croatia to obliterate all traces and memory of the concentration camp of Jasenovac, founded in August 1941, in the marshy Lonjsko Polje, at the confluence of the Una and Sava rivers. Jasenovac Concentration and Labour Camp, as it was officially known, flourished until 1945, and had branches along the Sava, from Krapja and Gradina in the west to Stara Gradiska in the east. It covered 210 sq.km., broken into about 10 smaller camps, each with its own system for individual and mass killings of inmates.Immediately after World War II while signs of the “Ustashi” activity were still fresh, the Commission for Establishing the Crimes Committed by the Occupying Forces and Their Domestic Helpers found that Jasenovac had killed 600,000 people in 1,335 days and nights; most of the dead were Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. Some 360,000 died in the village of Gradina, where most of the killing was achieved by poisoning, starvation and incineration. Some 20,000 of the Gradina victims were children under the age of 14. Even the Germans were horrified: “What is involved is a camp of the worst possible kind, which is comparable to Dante Alighieri’s hell,” officer Arthur Hofner wrote in his report of November 18, 1942.

Jasenovac Camp was overthrown on April 22, 1945 when 1,073 inmates made a suicidal charge at the “Ustashi” guards; only 84 of the inmates lived to see their freedom.

Roman Catholic priest, Friar Miroslav Flipovic (Miroslav Majstorovic known as “Friar Satan”), commanded the camp for four months, and, according to his own confession, was responsible for killing between 20.000 and 30,000 inmates. Before that, he had organized massacres in a number of villages, where he took an active role in the killing. Once in the camps, he noted, “I personally killed about 100 inmates from Jasenovac and Stara Gradiska”.

“Ustashi” killers used specially shaped knives mallets and axes for individual killings. The same techniques are being used by the “Ustashi” today. Friar Dionizije Juricev, Head of the Religious Department of the NDH Government in 1941, said: “Today it is not a sin to kill even a small child which is in the way of the “Ustashi” movement.”

Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in 1991 had all the buildings at Jasenovac — which had been preserved as a memorial, with many artefacts and records inside–bulldozed to make way for a “rare bird sanctuary”. Jasenovac was the third most “productive” of the Third Reich’s concentration camps, but because the War Crimes trials focussed almost solely on Germany itself, many “Ustashi” killers of Jasenovac escaped trial and punishment and are free today.

War, Or Religious Bonfire?

Friar Dionizije Juricev, Head of the Religious Department of World War II Croatia noted the sentiment which is carried today by extremist “Ustasha” militia in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: “No people other than Croats may any longer live in this land, because this is Croatian land, and we will know what to do with anybody who is not willing to get converted. In those regions yonder, I arranged for everything to be cleared away, everything from a chicken to an old man, and should that be necessary, I shall do so here, too, since it is not sinful nowadays to kill even a seven-year-old child, if it is standing in the way of our “Ustashi” order.”

“We all have to be Croats now and expand, and once we have expanded and grown stronger, we shall, if necessary, take even more from others. Pay no heed to my [religious] vestments, for you should know that whenever necessity arises, I take into my hands a machine gun and exterminate everybody down to the cradle, everybody who is opposed to the “Ustashi” State and Government.”

Friar Dr. Srecko Peric, from Livno, said in July 1941 in his sermons: “My Croat brethren! Go and slay all Serbs! First of all my sister, who is married to a Serb. After that, come to me, and I shall take on my soul all your sins …” Today, in the new genocide, Croat wives have demanded the death of their Serb husbands. The nature, and style, of the conflict seems almost identical to that of World War II.

To Forget Prebilovci

It was only in August 1991, after half a century of silence, that the remains of the Serbs who were thrown to their death by the Croatian “Ustasha” into a pit at Sumarici in August 1941 were buried in the Serbian Orthodox village of Prebilovici, near Capljina in lower Herzegovina. Tito had forbidden mention of the massacres but, by 1991, the new freedom allowed the families to exhume the pit and bury their dead. The village, in 1941, had a population of 1,000. Earlier, it had given volunteers to join the Bosnian-Herzegovinian uprising against the Turks in 1875-78, and it had contributed 20 volunteers to the Serbian Army in Salonica in World War I and many villagers died as prisoners in Austro-Hungarian Empire concentration camps. Croat nationalists, however, harboured hatred at Prebilovci’s contribution to the World War I Serbian army.

Prebilovci was surrounded on the night of August 4, 1941, by some 3,000 “Ustashi” made up of the village’s Muslim and Croat neighbours. Expecting the attack, the townsfolk had fled to the hills on the night of August 3, but at dawn the women and children returned to their homes only to be either captured and herded into the elementary school or killed in their homes. Atrocities began in the villages including the killing of 50 infants who were swung by their legs so that their heads could be dashed against the school wall. There was continuous rape of the young girls there, and at other locations. On August 6, 150 “Ustasha” under Ivan Jovanovic (“Blacky”) were joined by another 400 “Ustasha” from Capljina, and took the prisoners in rail cattle-cars to Vranac, some 500 to 1,000m from the Golubinks pit, one of many such natural, near-vertical cave formations in the region.

There the 550 “Ustasha” took small groups of prisoners to the pit and, family-by-family pushed them into it. The initial vertical fall was some 27m, followed by a 100m steep slope to the base of the pit. Small children were thrown up into the air before falling into the pit. One woman is known to have given birth as she fell into the pit. The newborn infant died with her under the crush of bodies.

One entire family of 78 persons died in the crush of the Golubinka Pit in Surmanci. And after all were pushed into it, the “Ustasha” sat around drinking and celebrating. Only 170 villagers survived. Remarkably, 45 survived the crush of the pits and escaped later to tell of the disaster. Only 14 of the 550 known “Ustasha” were brought to trial after the war, and one of the judges was himself an “Ustashi” close to the crime. Only six were sentenced to death, the remainder received prison sentences, the majority around three years.

The remains were dug up before the Bosnian-Herzegovinian civil war erupted in 1992, and a monument built. It has now been damaged or destroyed by the war. But even in 1991, when the carefully and reverently collected bones of the dead were being transported to a burial site, the truck passed under a bridge bearing the hastily-daubed sign in Serbo-Croat: “Come visit us again–God and the Croats”.
 

Twice before in this Century there have been well documented attempts by the Croats to destroy the Serbian people, and to obliterate their culture, religion and memory. It first began, during the upheaval of the Austro-Hungarian Empire–of which Croatia, but not Serbia, was part –with World War I. Then, after a period of apparent Balkan har- mony under the first Yugoslavia–the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes–it resurfaced with the invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia by Italy and Germany. Nazi Germany on April 10, 1941, proclaimed Croatia an independent state for the first time in its history, and installed a neo-nazi puppet Government of the Independent State of Croatia (known in Serbo-Croatian as Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska: NDH).

Between 1941 and 1945, the “Ustasha” NDH Government of Poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelic systematically killed as many as one-million Serb men, women and children. Serbian historians claim that as many as two-million Serbs have been killed by Croatia in this century. Population figures over this century give credence to the latter claim. Documented evidence confirms the approximate accuracy of the World War II deaths. From the beginning, the Pavelic Government repeated: “there can be no Serbs or Orthodoxy in Croatia.” NDH official Dr. Milovan Zanic said at a meeting in Nova Gradiska on June 2, 1941: “This will be a country of Croats and none other, and we as “Ustasha” will use every possible method to make this country truly Croat and purge it of the Serbs. We are not hiding this, it is the policy of the state and when it is carried out, we will be carrying out what is written down in the “Ustasha” principles.”

Today, the newly-independent State of Croatia has adopted the same symbols as the “Ustasha” puppet nazi state. In many instances its military and paramilitary units have adopted the same uniforms of the 1941-45 “Ustasha” Black Legions. And the killing has begun again. The dispossession has begun again. The NDH puppet Government, with the full support of the Nazi German occupying Army, destroyed some 450 Serbian Orthodox churches in World War II. The newly-independent State of Croatia has either directly or indirectly supported the destruction of more than 300 Serbian Orthodox churches–many of which had been rebuilt on the rubble of the World War II sites –in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Between 600,000 and 800,000 ethnic Serbs have fled from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to Serbia to come under the protection of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA).

Austrian historian Freidrich Heer noted in 1968 that what happened in NDH Croatia was the result of “archaic fanaticism and pre-historic times”. Pavelic, he said, was “a singular murderer of the 20th Century.” Pavelic is today lauded as a hero of modern Croatia; his picture (and that of l9th Century “Ustasha” ideologue Ante Starcevic) adorns the T-shirts of a generation of Croatians who were unborn at the end of World War II.

Pavelic had noted: “The Slavoserbs are the rubbish of a nation, the type of people who will sell themselves to anyone and at any price, and to every buyer …” By June 12, 1941, the movement of all Jews and Serbs in Croatia had been restricted, but by then the mass killings had already begun.

Croat writer Mile Budak declared in Gospic on July 22, 1941: “… We shall slay one third of the Serbian population, drive away another [third], and the rest we shall convert to the Roman Catholic faith and thus assimilate into Croats. Thus we will destroy every trace of theirs, and all that which will be left, will be an evil memory of them ….” The Roman Catholic Church, far more zealous in Croatia than elsewhere in the world, did not fight the nazis as they did in Poland, but embraced them and the “Ustasha”. Croat Catholic priests, in clerical garb and out of it, joined in personally as killers in the concentration camps of Croatia.

Today, it is with more than a hint of concern that Serbs see the Catholic church offering apparently unlimited support to the new Croatian Government and its “Ustasha” principles, despite 1963 apology of the Roman Catholic church in Croatia for the atrocities of World War II. “It is actually in this country that many of our Orthodox brothers were killed in the last war because they were Orthodox,” said Alfred Pihler, Catholic Bishop of Banja Luka in his 1963 Christmas pastoral letter to Roman Catholics. “And those Christians were killed because they were not Croat and Catholics. We admit painfully such a terrible fallacy of those people who had gone astray, and beg a our brothers of Orthodox faith to forgive us, the same as Christ forgave us all on the cross.”

It is significant that, in the 1991-1992 conflict, there has been no similar flood of Croatian refugees from Serbia (Yugoslavia) to Croatia, as a counterbalance to those Serbs (and others) who have been fleeing from Croatia. Indeed, so many Croatians have fled to Serbia after opposing the new “Ustasha” juggernaut of the Franjo Tudjman Government of Croatia that organizations such as the Association of Croatian Journalists have been set up in exile in Belgrade. And yet the world has not heard anything of this.

Croatia, in two world wars, fought on the side of Germany against the Western Allies (while on both occasions Serbia fought with the Allies). Today, modern Croatia is regarded as a creature of the West, while what is left of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) is regarded as a hostile vestige of Tito’s communist administration. Why, or how, can such a massive thing as the attempted genocide of a whole people, be misrepresented so that the victims, rather than the oppressors, are called the criminals? Can such a misrepresentation be the result solely of accidental misinterpretation of the facts? It is not possible.

There is no doubt that the genocide against Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina resumed immediately after Germany forced the European Community, in 1991, into the premature recognition of what is now Croatia. Defense & Foreign Affairs correspondents have seen irrefutable evidence of the facts. It is precisely because of the renewed genocide against the Serbs that those ethnic Serbs whose ancestors lived for centuries in Bosnia-Herzegovina, rebelled and began protecting their villages and their lives, rather than once again face slaughter or deprivation of their lands.

Defense & Foreign Affairs has had the opportunity to match many of the photographs and videotape of the war dead which have gone out on the news networks worldwide during the past 18 months. In virtually every instance, the Western media has captioned the pictures of dead as being Croatian, or Muslims from Bosnia-Herzegovina. In many instances, families of the dead have come forward to identify the victims as ethnic Serbs slaughtered by Croats, or sometimes by Muslims.

Virtually every piece of news footage and photography which emerges from the conflict zone comes out through the Croatian capital, Zagreb, or Muslim controlled Bosnian outlets. Western media chiefs have been warned off accepting “propaganda” from what is purported to be the “vile neo-communist authorities” of Belgrade, the capital of both Serbia and Yugoslavia. Western television, including the Eurovision exchange, has consistently refused to accept anything emanating from Belgrade. Defense & Foreign Affairs has seen the evidence of this, too.

It is significant that the only television satellite uplink in Yugoslavia when the state was prematurely broken up was in Zagreb, so it was Croatia which was able to corner the outflow of television pictures. Belgrade’s links into the European satellite system were then relegated to second status, and so today it must switch frequencies constantly in order to broadcast. As a result, Serbian-speaking audiences and listeners in Western Europe generally cannot find the Serbian or Yugoslav broadcasts, and, on top of that, there seems fairly good evidence that Germany is attempting to jam, or interfere with, the broadcasting which does find an occasional channel.

Croatian expatriates have had a long time to establish themselves in the West, and gain a good grasp on some levers of power. The exiled Serbs many of whom fled Yugoslavia after World War II because of their opposition to Tito’s communism, were harried by Tito’s intelligence services wherever they went, even in Australia. Croatian exiles, however, were left largely undisturbed by the communist intelligence services, largely because Tito himself was a Croat. Today, as a result, Croat nationalists find themselves in respected posts in respected Western organizations.

Christopher Cviic is a classic example, supposedly an impartial Balkan expert in the Royal Institute of International Affairs. From this vantage point he is invited onto BBC programmes to give the Institute view on the Balkans, only to reinforce a rabidly anti-Serb anti-(new)Yugoslav viewpoint. The fact that the prestigious institute was used in 1991 to publish Cviic’s tract, “Remaking the Balkans”, is testament to the subversion of respected bodies to achieve pro-Croatian aims.

Edward Gibbon, in his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” noted: “Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit can be assumed from the performance of an indispensible duty.” Diligence, accuracy and balance have been removed from the current writings on the historic events now underway in the Balkans. Part of this is due to the fact that journalists have a natural tendency to report mostly that to which they can have easy access; believe most readily that which has been laid out for them in forms, and through channels, with which they feel comfortable. Traditionally, when one journalist, or only a small number, works harder, takes more risks, strives more to understand the broader picture, and reports a view contrary to that of his editorial cousins, he is not hailed for his achievement. He is castigated for breaking ranks with the accepted line, the accepted truth. A journalist who admits (in the light of later-discovered truths) that his work may not have been all that it should fears most and first the wrath of his editor. The editor himself rejects correction (for fear of losing credibility, a news medium’s only asset) unless the laws of libel force such apology or correction. And in war there is no libel. Better to sustain a lie than to lose circulation, viewers or listeners, by a revision of the view.

Perhaps this accounts for the apparently consistent effort to ensure that the Serbian and Yugoslav message is not allowed to compete with that of other vested interests?

It is clear that Croatian strategic aims have been considerably advanced by the increasing persecution of Serbs, Serbia and Yugoslavia in the current Balkan conflict. Indeed, Croatia’s grand strategy is considerably advanced by ensuring that a confused image appears in the minds of the international policymaking audience (and the media which influences it) as to the differences between Bosnian Serbs, Serbia and Yugoslavia.

To begin with, Croatian strategic objectives have been historically stated and are today re-stated, to include the elimination of all Serbs from what the Croatian leadership believes to be its territory. Croatia’s territorial objectives are stated, whenever possible, as the recreation of the boundaries of the 1941-1945 so-called Independent State of Croatia, which subsumes virtually all of Bosnia-Herzegovina and much of Serbia. Additionally, modern Croatia will not abandon the gift which Yugoslavia’s communist Croatian leader gave it: virtually all of the Dalmatian coastline and key ports. The World War II division of spoils gave this to Italy; today, with no historic precedent to justify it, the land has been recognized as Croatian.

The propaganda to remove Bosnian Serbs from Bosnia-Herzegovina enables Croatian forces to consolidate their hold over as much of that newly independent state as possible. The Militias of Croatian Bosnians together with some 40,000 Croatian Armed Forces personnel have been consolidating their control over much of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the expense not only of the Bosnian Serbs, but also of the Bosnian Muslims who are themselves ethnically and linguistically Serb.

The campaign of genocide and terror against the Bosnian and Croatian Serbs helps reduce the Serbian populations of those two states, helping to ensure Croatian dominance. The campaign to claim that the genocide is Serbian in origin and that the victims are Croats or Muslims puts the Serbs on the defensive and builds the case for Croatia to have the international community guarantee Croatia’s status quo and its expansion in the Balkans.

The late 1991 battle for Vukovar was portrayed in the Western media as a battle between heroic Croatian defenders against overwhelming Yugoslav (ie: Serbian) modern military might. Significantly, as in World War II Germany when the concentration camp ovens kept burning as the Allied forces swept toward them, Croats in Vukovar from June 1 to November 23 1991, were busy exterminating those Serb families who had not been able to flee. It was for this reason that the JNA –the Yugoslav Army–fought back into Vukovar.

At least 1,000 Serbs, mostly women, old people and children, were shot, knifed, axed or bludgeoned to death systematically, one-by-one, in two main centres; one the Borovo Footwear Factory, the other the Rowing Club of Vukovar. Many of the bodies were dumped into the Danube, left to float down to Belgrade. And in many instances, the Croats took pictures, or recorded the deaths. One visiting Croat female journalist, during the Vukovar fighting, unfamiliar with firearms, asked one of the young gunmen to cock a pistol for her so that she could feel what it was like to kill a Serb. She shot, indiscriminately, an old Serb woman who was standing under Croat guard.

One Serb, Branko Stankovic, was captured after being wounded in the leg by Croat forces. He was taken to a hospital where he was forced to make a television broadcast for Croatian television, saying how well he and other prisoners were being treated. He was then taken out and killed. Photographs of his tortured, mutilated body were subsequently found. So, too, were a significant variety of specially made implements for torturing and killing.

Vukovar has seen it before: Between August 8 and September 16, 1942, some 10,000 Serbs were killed and scores of thousands more were tortured by their Croat captors.

But the Vukovar tragedy of 1991 is but one of thousands of new killings which have occurred during the past year or so of independence in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. There were similar atrocities in the Croatian town of Gospic in mid-October 1991. And in Glina, another World War II massacre site revisited by “Ustashi” in December 1991. And Kupres. There, 1,036 Serbs were killed in World War II under the orders of the “Ustasha” (who killed 889 of the Serbs), by Italian troops and by German troops. A still unknown number of Serbs were butchered by several Croatian military formations, the HOS, ZNG and foreign mercenaries, in early April 1992.

What is significant is that the slogans of the Croats are those of the “Ustashi” of World War II and pre-World War II. The weapons used for ritual killing are also, symbolically, virtually the same. The knife is a favourite, and many special knives were made during the Vukovar killings. These, along with the Serb victims, were found later. Many Serbian villages and towns were razed during the past 18 months in Croatia and Croatian-held parts of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Even in Zagreb, where no fighting officially took place, more than 100 Serbs had been killed in 1991 alone, and the Orthodox churches there damaged or destroyed.

Journalists and analysts looking at the overall situation in the Balkans today must ask why in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina hundreds of Orthodox churches have been destroyed, while in Orthodox Serbia no Croatian institutions or Catholic churches have been attacked. The answer is that in Croatia — as has been historically documented — there is widespread Croatian Catholic xenophobia aimed at the Orthodox church and Serbs, whereas there has been no such xenophobia against Croats or Catholics in Serbia or Montenegro.

More than 40 percent of the population of Serbia is non-Serbian, and there has been a history of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural cooperation which has not prevailed in Croatia. Indeed, where Croatia’s government today intimates that there were excesses in Croatia during World War II, it also says that there were similar excesses by Serbs in Serbia at the same time. The truth is that Croatia, when it greeted its German “liberators” with open arms on September 10, 1941 began its own campaign of extermination of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. On the other hand, the extermination of Jews and Gypsies in Serbia was carried out virtually entirely by Germans or Yugoslavs of German background.

Today, the bodies of Serbs still float down the Danube into Serbia. Today, Serbians and Yugoslavs are ending their 50 years of silence –demanded and enforced by Tito–about the World War II anti-Serb genocide. A project to record “Genocide Against the Serbs, 1991/92″ was began by Miss Bojana Isakovic. The project, currently a massive display of documents, photographs and artifacts, has become a tragic focal point for displaced Croatian and Bosnian Serbs, who bring photographs or reports of missing family members to the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, hoping to find news of their kin. Many burned corpses have, through painstaking forensic research, been identified as a result of information brought to the centre.On more than one occasion, Serbs living outside the Balkans, some in Germany, have seen television of Croats (or Muslims) butchered by Serbs and have recognized their own (Serbian) family members wrongly labelled as Croats or Muslims. The pattern has been too consistent to have been accidental. Similarly, the many stories alleging rapes by Bosnian Serbs of Muslim women in Bosnia-Herzegovina have clearly involved carefully staged performances by non-Muslims dressed up as Muslims. Rape (on all sides) is one of the byproducts of all conflicts, but the clear staging of these events by Croats has been significant.

The United Nations has already said that now, after proper research, it knows that several major incidents were staged by Bosnian Muslims or Croats so that they could be blamed on Serbs. These include the famous (televised) mortaring of a Muslim bread queue in Sarajevo, undertaken by Muslim forces against their own people when television cameramen had been alerted. The attack was blamed on Serbian forces (now disproven) and, despite the UN findings, has never been refuted by Western news media. Another, similar incident occurred (as verified by the UN), when Muslim snipers shot at mourners attending a Muslim funeral in Sarajevo, for the benefit of specially-placed TV cameramen. The UN has also said that the shooting down of the Italian Air Force G- 222 supply aircraft near Sarajevo was the work of Croats, not Serbs as originally blamed. The Western media has not corrected the story.

Today, trucks bearing United Nations relief supplies rumble down through Hungary and across Yugoslavia (in safety) and then into Bosnia- Herzegovina. It is only there that they come under fire and then mostly from Muslim forces. Ironically, the Muslims counted on Croatian military support during their conflict to gain supremacy over the Bosnian Serbs. Time and again, Croatian forces helped the Muslims right up to the point that direct conflict was initiated against the Bosnian Serbs, and then Croatian forces withdrew to leave the Muslims exposed. And this despite the many occasions (World War II included) that Muslims helped the Croatian genocide against the Serbs.

The accounts of Croatian genocide against Serbs in World ar II, assisted by both local Muslim leaders and by many Catholic priests, have been absolutely verified by international observers and acknowledged by the Vatican. When Dr Franjo Tudjman proclaimed the new Croatian state in 1990, it was a new “Ustasha” state, with all the old symbols (including the red and white “Ustasha” chequerboard shield), and in the presence of a papal representative and Muslim leadership. Tudjman, at the first convention of the Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica: HDZ), on February 26, 1990, said, in the presence of more than 100 Ustashi war criminals who had escaped the law courts and fled to international havens after World War II: “The Independent State of Croatia [ie: the World War II state] was not only a mere Quisling creation, but also an expression of the historical aspirations of the Croatian people for an independent state of their own and recognition of international factors–the Government of Hitler’s Germany in this case.”

The use of “Ustasha” symbols and slogans had the same effect on modern Serbs as if, today, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had used swastikas and the red, white and black of the nazis to proclaim the new unified Germany. And yet the Western world, ignorant of the Balkan history, paid no attention to this highly-charged local symbolism.

Indeed, Bavarian German Catholics, while indignant and upset at the rise of neo-nazism in Germany, have sent massive monetary aid to the new Croatian “Ustashi” , who have openly proclaimed their identity with the “Ustasha” Administration of 1941-1945 and its fervent Support for Hitler.

Tudjman delivered a speech to the Croatian Sabor (parliament) on the occasion of the proclamation of the Republic of Croatia on December 22, 1990. In the Constitution he proposed, and which was adopted, the Serbs lost their nation status within Croatia, and were relegated to the status of a national minority. The official war against the Serbs had been resumed.

Even before Croatia became independent, the Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs, Martin Spegelj, advised his colleagues: “We are in the war with [ie: against] the Army [Yugoslav Army:JNA] Should anything happen, kill them all in the streets, in their homes, through hand grenades, fire pistols into their bellies, women, children …We will deal with [the Croatian Serb town of] Knin by butchering.”

The premature recognition of Croatia’s independence by Germany, without consultation with the other EC states, also saw the fact that a substantial Croatian Army had been created well in advance, fully equipped with German-supplied uniforms and weapons. The suddenness of the situation deprived all the states of the old Yugoslavia the opportunity to negotiate their separation and to define their boundaries along proper historical, geographic and, if necessary, ethnic lines. The Croatian militias (there are several) attacked the JNA, the Yugoslav Army, which was still in its barracks in Croatia, ensuring that there could be no orderly withdrawal from Croatia.

That was not the case in the former Yugoslav state of Macedonia, where consensus allowed an orderly and peaceful withdrawal of the JNA back into the new Yugoslav borders.

But in Croatia, the new leadership wanted (a) to initiate conflict against Belgrade and therefore the Serbs, (b) to begin the process of rolling Serbian and Bosnia-Herzegovina borders back to the World War II borders, and (c) to seize JNA military assets. At least two brigades of main battle tanks and two brigades worth of armoured personnel carriers were successfully seized by the Croats through this stratagem of unilaterally declaring war on the rump Yugoslavia and the Serb Peoples (both in and out of Serbia). Today, the impact of “The Big Lie” which accuses the Serbs of genocide in the current Balkan war is the equivalent of looking back at 1939 and demanding sanctions against the worldwide Jewish population because,”German Jews had begun a campaign of genocide against the German people”. History will show that the massive deception against the Serbs was not only unjust, it also helped allow the wholly avoidable genocide which has occurred against the Serbian people for the third time this century. And it also was the major cause for the conflict which rages today.

Croats, Serbs and the Bosnian Muslims are ethnically indistinguishable; they are all of the same Slavic stock. This highlights the irony of one people, the Croats (sometimes aided in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Muslims), setting out to annihilate its twin, the Serbs. The most outstanding difference to which most observers would point today would be the fact that Croatians define themselves by their Roman Catholicism; Serbs by their adherence to the Serbian Orthodox Church. But that is too simple. The two peoples were raised in different, albeit adjacent, territories, Serbia being traditionally independent, and Croatia for many centuries part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Croatians have also nurtured for much of this time a dream of a greater Croatia, extending well into land held by Serbs nd the Serbs who had been converted to Islam under the Turkish invasions. This has created a Croatian mentality which is widespread and which resents the very existence of the Serbs.

It is significant, and proven repeatedly through history, that Serbs have not been raised with similar nationalistic or territorial ambitions. It was in this century always the Serbs who were prepared to surrender land and prestige (not to mention power) for the good of the greater Yugoslavia. But, during the Kingdom and then the post-World War II republic, Croats always referred to themselves as Croatians first and Yugoslavs second. Serbian culture held, during the Yugoslav era, that it would have been in poor taste to boast first of being Serbian and to relegate Yugoslav status to second place. The Serbs have not sought geographic or cultural dominance within Yugoslavia. Most Serbs within the Republic of Serbia and within the new Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) are not seeking to embrace the ethnically Serbian areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina into Serbia or Yugoslavia, even though they are almost universally reluctant to turn their backs on their co-ethnic brothers across the border.

And yet the JNA cannot go into Bosnia-Herzegovina or Croatia to protect Serbs from the attacks which were started respectively by the Croatians and Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croatians. Today, Croatia admits having its troops [40,000 of them] in Bosnia-Herzegovina, alongside the Bosnia-Herzegovina Croat militias. All three so called ethnic groups (Muslims, Serbs and Croats) in Bosnia-Herzegovina drifted into what is now, for the first time, an independent state, artificially created by Austro-Hungarian cartographers and by Josip Broz Tito, the late Croatian head of Yugoslavia. And, save for the barbarities which came alive in World Wars I and II and in 1991-92, all lived and shared the land with reasonable equanimity.

Croatia’s leaders, and Croatian warlords who roam freely with their militias throughout Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, are today given complete power by the West and particular by Western media.

The story is bigger than this, and more complex. The tragedy of the genocide which continues against the Serbs is bigger and more vulgar than there is scope here to indicate. The reversal of the blame for the state of affairs is more than tragedy. It is of strategic importance on a near global scale.

A micro-state, Croatia, is dragging much of the world into what could be a major, protracted conflict, by making the United Nations an ignorant party to its strategic objectives. The geopolitical aspects are of significance: Germany’s reluctance to recognise that Croatia’s new leaders and body politic are a throwback to an era for which Germany has itself had to atone for a half-century is because Germany does not wish to surrender this “open route to the Mediterranean” which can pass through Croatia. Russia itself sees long term geopolitical gain in supporting Serbia as a stalking horse to the South (and Yugoslav leaders are most reluctant to invoke Russian support for fear of attracting the unwanted embrace of Moscow, resisted for so long even when Yugoslavia was, under the Croatian leadership of Tito, a Western form of communist state).

Perhaps the most ironic image which Franjo Tudjman invokes is that he, and the new Republic of Croatia, are “part of the West, part of Europe”. Tudjman’s “democratic” nation is becoming a one-party state, in a reversal of trends in Eastern and Western Europe. It has become a neo-nazi “Ustasha” state, harkening back to the last division (rather than the new unification) of Europe. And it stiffly resists tendencies to move toward a market economy; less than 10 percent of the GNP is generated by private industry. It is overwhelmingly a nationalist socialist state, while blindly pointing at what is the new Yugoslavia as the rump of a sort of communist state. Indeed, in Yugoslavia today there is considerable momentum toward a broadly-based mixed economy in a pluralistic society, the reverse of trends in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

But the greatest deception perpetrated on the international media is the fact that the Croatian Administration has purged all of the Croatian media of any opposition (let alone Serbian) elements, at the same time that the Western media were led to believe that the Serbian media were universally controlled by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. And yet in Serbia most television and press would consider itself to be freely in opposition to, or at least critical of, the current leadership.

Will the prevailing official and media views of the Balkan crisis ever come into balance? Will this information war create a major conflict?

Izetbegovic’s Vision for Bosnia: An Islamist Fascist State

by 4International writers: Nathan Pearlstein, Joshua Rosenberg, Max Rosenthal and Shlomo Baum

Quote from Adnan Jahic in Bosnian Weekly newspaper “Zmaj od Bosne”:

“The territory controlled by the Bosnian Army after the war will be a Muslim state. This is a desire of the Muslim people and, after all, our leaders: secular leader Alija Izetbegovic and religious leader Mustafa Ceric (the latter one in a private conversation with me confirmed that the old dream of Alija Izetbegovic, member of the organization “Young Muslims”, has been and remains the establishment of the Muslim state in Bosnia-Hercegovina; finally, his dream is close to realization and “he is not terribly upset because of that”).

Here is documented proof that the late Bosnian SDA party leader -  Alija Izetbegovic – wanted an Islamist Fascist State of Bosnia & Herzegovina all along!!

Izetbegovic’s newly-elected minister in 1996 in the Bosnian parliament and head of the Islamofascist SDA party in Tuzla – Mr. Adnan Jahic – admits to it in this article he wrote for a pro-SDA Bosnian weekly newspaper on September 17, 1993 (re-published in 1996). 

This devastating bombshell has been deliberately covered-up for over 15 years by the corportate controlled Western mass media, the US, NATO, EU Imperialist governments, and the pro-Imperialist, pro-Fascist  so-called ”Left” phonies  such as Oliver Kamm, Marko Attila Hoare, WRP, SWP, ISM, et al.

This article has grave implications for Israeli Jews and for all decent working class people all over the world, since for over 15 years these people have promoted a self-confessed genocidal Islamofascist -Alija Izetbegovic - as a… ” Western oriented secular moderate muslim leader committed to a multi-ethnic liberal democracy”!!

The reason why this is so critically important to understand is that the same type of  monstrous Western government, corporate mass media and phony “Left” Goebbels-style “Big Lie” technique has been perpetrated against Israel and the Israeli Jews with the Arab Islamofascists of Hamas in Gaza, Yasser Arafat (now Mahmoud Abbas’) PLO/Fatah party as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon being portrayed as… “helpless victims of Israeli state terror” 

The ITN/Guardian Trnopolje & Omarska ”Death Camp”Hoax: The Lies of the British Guardian & ITN Exposed

By 4International writers: Joshua Rosenberg, Nathan Pearlstein, Max Rosenthal & Peter Robert North

The late Islamofascist Bosnian leader, Alija Izetbegovic, former illegitimate “president” of Bosnia Herzegovina, illegal ursuper of power in 1990 from the duly elected Bosnian muslim leader, Mr.Fikret Abdic, is the one behind the Bosnian “death camp” fraud.

Izetbegovic admitted it to former UNMIK head Bernard Kouchner on his death bed in 2003. He told Bernard Kouchner that he lied about Trnopolje and Omarska being “death camps” in the hope of provoking NATO bombing against the Bosnian Serbs. This monstrous media hoax was used in order to demonize the Serbs as the “new Nazis”of Europe, to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust,  to turn the world – and especially Jewish people – against the Serbs, and to enable the US & NATO/EU Imperialist governments to further dismember Yugoslavia into a series of politically weak NATO/EU-run protectorates.

The Joseph Goebbels Nazi style “Big Lie”was spread world-wide with the mainstream media-connected resources of a multi-million dollar funded American “public relations”& lobbying firm called ‘Ruder Finn’ – whom also worked as a lobbying group in Washington on behalf of the Islamist Nazi terrorist KLA and Tudjman’s HDZ Fascist neo-Ustasha Nazi racist government responsible for the ethnic cleansing of over 550,000 Krajina province Serbs from 1990 to 1995 and for the murder of at least 20,000 Serbs during the same period.

Izetbegovic, the man described by ITN,BBC,CNN,the Guardian et al, as a:

“secular muslim and moderate democrat committed to a multi-ethnic Western style liberal democracy”was in fact committed to genocide of all non-muslims (i.e., mainly Serbs).

Well before the outbreak of war in 1992, Izetbegovic PUBLICLY announced his commitment to genocide by having his Islamist version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf (his 1970 manifesto, “The Islamic Declaration” – which was a call for Jihad and the extermination of non-Muslims – re-published in 1990 as part of his Bosnian election campaign).
The following is from the ISSA Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy Special Report published soon after Izetbegovic’s death:

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“Izetbegovic appointed the Muslim National Council (MNC) of Bosnia to achieve long-term aspirations, to create a Muslim state in the Balkans. This state would defend the Muslim interests throughout Yugoslavia, i.e. Sandzak, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia). “Rise brother Muslims, there are enough of us to accomplish our goals, whom the Muslim and those of Muslim blood will not betray. This time will never come again. Now is the opportunity to realize the dream of every Muslim” [qouted in Doc Center, 2002 from the Bosnian Muslim magazine VOX]. Among other objectives the MNC was working for were the creation of a Muslim state within the borders of present day B&H and formation of the Muslim Armed Forces.

“In October 1991, the MNC defined its political platform:

“The day is nearing when the announced Islamic Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be proclaimed. The date, which every Muslim in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sandzak [Raška] is ardently waiting for has been known for a long time to be the 31st December. There are some indications that the Serbs might oppose this historic event…Every individual Serb must be aware of the responsibility of the entire nation, the penalty for crimes will be collective-for one dead Muslim one hundred Serbs will be liquidated-for one wounded Muslim (depending on the wound severity) 10-50 Serbs will be executed[ibid].

The document further elaborates how the Serbs would be treated in the Islamic Republic.

“All Serbs will have a 12-hour working day. The wages will be proportionate to the loyalty of all employees and as a rule they will be paid 30 percent less than the wages of Muslims whom occupy the same post … Serbs will receive rations for food, which they will obtain in special shops. Serbs do not have national parties and if they do not abide by the rules of political life, they will not be entitled to political organization or to vote..Serbs are equal to Muslims if, of their own will, they are received into the Islamic faith of their forefathers…A good Serb is a living and obedient Serb or a dead, disobedient Serb [ibid].

The presidency of the Association of the Islamic Clergy (Ilmia) for B&H offered in 1992 in huge print, run in annual Takvim, the following instruction for jihad:

“Jihad in Islam is not only a war in the name of Allah. In reality, Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program that aims at changing the social system of the whole world and order it in harmony with its regulations and ideals. Islam wants to destroy all the states and governments anywhere on earth which stand opposed to the ideology and program of Islam, regardless of the state or the nation that is in power. The purpose of Islam is to establish the state based on its ideology and program, no matter which nation becomes the bearer of Islam or which nation is undermined in the process of establishing the ideological Islamic state” [ibid].

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See: ‘Who was Alija Izetbegovic: Moderate democrat or radical Islamist?’

http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ihralija1.htm

and

‘Alija Izetbegovic: A Retrospective Look at His Impact on Balkan Stability’

http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Dec0803.htm

For photographs of Izetbegovic’s massacres (perpetrated by his Islamist Nazi “tough guy”, Naser Oric: given a “harsh” 2 year sentence by NATO’s Hague ICTY and RELEASED!) in the towns and villages of Srebrenica, Bratunac,Skelani,Milici, Kravica, Gorazde et al, see:

The Real Srebrenica Genocide

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=232

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2DLa_XM7yQ

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/the-real-srebrenica-genocide-the-mass-murder-of-serbs-in-srebrenica-and-gorazde/

http://www.real-srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com

Of course, the Gaurdian and BBC knew that Izetbegovic was a Nazi as early as 1983 when he was jailed for his Islamist attempted terrorist activities, but deliberately censored the truth about his WW2 Nazi background.

Izetbegovic co-founded the Islamofascist “Young Muslims” organization in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in late 1939-early 1940, which co-operated with the leading Arab ally of Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler: the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – known as Hajj Amin al Husseini.

The Bosnian “Young Muslims” acted as recruiting agents for Himmler’s Waffen SS Bosnian Muslim Nazi divisions called “Handschar” [aka "Handzar"] and “Kama”and warmly welcomed Hajj Amin al Husseini’s visit to Sarajevo in 1943 where he officially inspected the Bosnian Muslim ”Handschar” SS division.

The “Young Muslims”  based their ideology and political platform on the Islamist-Nazi “Muslim Brotherhood“ ["Ikhwan al Muslimeen"]- founded in Egypt in 1928. The Islamist Nazi “Muslim Brotherhood” exist to this day and are the political forebears/antecedents of today’s Islamofascist al Qaeda and Saudi Wahabbi  Jihadist terrorists.

Most people today are completely unaware – thanks to the disgusting cover-up by the totally phony so-called ”Left”Fascists of the WRP, WSWS, SWP, ISM, et al (many of whom falsely and despicably masquerade as “Trotskyists” or “Leninists”)- of the indisputable fact that Hajj Amin al Husseini is the late Arab PLO/Fatah leader Yasser Arafat’s uncle and decades-long political mentor! 

Izetbegovic publicly proclaimed his genocidal Islamist-Nazi beliefs in his Islamofascist Mein Kampf style manifesto, the  “Islamic Declaration” published in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in booklet form in 1970 -genocidal views towards the Jews of Israel and implicitly, the Serbs of Bosnia which he reiterated publicly in a shuttle tour of fundamentalist Islamist terrorist states in the Middle East during 1991 (especially his visit to Tehran where he agreed with the Ayatollah Khomeini that Salman Rushdie deserved the death sentence for writing “the Satanic Verses”).

ITN reporters went to Bosnia in 1992 in search of “concentration camps held by the Serbs”after American reporter, Roy Gutman, of New York’s “Newsday”paper made a sensational claim – with no independent proof whatsoever – (other than Izetbegvic SDA government press releases) that the Bosnian Serbs were running “death camps”.

Pity ITN didn’t do so in 1991 when there were already real death camps set up at the Borovo footware factory and the “Rowing Club” in Vukovar, Croatia: at least 1,000 Serbian civilians – including women,children & the elderly – were beheaded and dismembered in a two month period in late 1991 by Tudjman’s neo-Ustasha Nazi “Black Legion” troops (Croat version of the SS) with many more thousands of Serbs being murdered and half a million expelled from late 1990 to late 1995.

See ‘Hiding Genocide:Croatia has resumed its “liquidation” of Serbs, while arguing that “ethnic cleansing” is a Serbian creation…’

http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosta/licnosti/tudjman.html

As far as the Guardian is concerned they were an integral part of the ITN “accidental”deception and fakery regarding the refugee collection centre known as Trnopolje.

That is to say, their practice of “accidentally” placing their reporters INSIDE an enclosed agricultural compound surrounded by a less than 5 foot tall broken down CHICKEN WIRE fence – with two rusted out old strands of barbed wire on top – and then proceeding to “accidentally” film from within this enclosed area – surrounded by this chicken wire fence – a single very thin looking Bosnian muslim, known as Fikret Alic – whom instead of being sullen as one would normally expect from someone who was starving, was smiling and laughing. Mr. Alic was surrounded by men also doing the same – smiling and joking – the only difference being that these men were all normal looking and some even had pot bellies.

Even the judge in the LM vs ITN case had to admit that the ITN/Guardian people were “mistaken” in their belief (a nice way of saying that they were lying) that they were not filming from within an enclosed area (pretty hard to “believe” any such thing, since Penny Marshall & her team of ITN cameramen & the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy had to crawl through a broken down part of the chicken wire fence in order to gain entry!)

Thus, ITN lied as did the Guardian not for what they explicitly said and wrote, but what they implied when they failed to tell the world that Trnopolje was NOT a WW2 style Nazi “concentration camp” with all that such a camp implies: 30 foot high guard towers in each corner containing machine gun nests and surrounded by 10 foot high electrified fences and/or razor sharp barbed wire.

They also failed to broadcast the uncensored video footage showing the Bosnian muslim refugees ridiculing the notion put forth by Penny Marshall, that they were in a prison or that they were not being fed.
See the photo fakery the Guardian perpetrated again 12 years later in September 2004, where they tried to pass off a photograph of Fikret Alic at Trnopolje refugee camp as “inmates of the Serbian concentration camp of Omarska”.

The description of the photo stayed up as “concentration camp of Omarska” on their website for nearly 2 years until it was exposed as a fraud.

See ‘Lies the London Guardian told me… or, The Return of Villainy’

http://emperors-clothes.com/villainy.htm

ITN/Guardian reporters Ed Vulliamy and Ian Williams claim they were unable to film freely at Trnopolje and also claim that the POWs at Omarska were “poorly treated and in a state of fear”. How strange indeed that both ITN and the Guardian decided NOT to broadcast any of their video/film footage of these POWs at Omarska, but instead labelled the photograph of Trnopolje as…Omarska!

ITN and the Guardian journalists were invited by the Bosnian Serbs to visit both Trnopolje and Omarska to see for themselves that the “death camp”allegation was a monstrous lie.Not only that, but they were provided with a Bosnian Serb military escort to Trnopolje and Omarska which is why the ITN/Guardian team did not need to fly in via parachute behind enemy lines to get the “scoop of the century”.

So to recap: ITN and the Guardian reporters were INVITED by the Bosnian Serb authorities – in the middle of a war zone known as Bosnia-Herzgovina on August 5,1992 – to provide them with safe passage via a Bosnian Serb military escort which enabled the Guardian/ITN team to visit these alleged “death camps” and then said Bosnian Serb authorities ALLOWED the Guardian/ITN team to film/photograph this Omarska alleged “death camp” and “atrocities at Omarska” which said footage of “atrocities”was then subsequently ***NEVER USED EVEN ONCE*** in any broadcasts by ITN and which said photographs of Omarska were ***NEVER PUBLISHED EVEN ONCE*** by the Guardian in its so-called “reporting” on this supposed “death camp”.

Instead, we have the faked ITN footage of the supposed “death camp”Trnopolje being labelled by the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy as Omarska instead in order to cover up the fact that Omarska was far more humane than your regular US or British prison.

Then a certain David Campbell of the University of Newcastle, UK, comes along after this fraud was exposed and uses ITN and the Guardian as his “impartial” sources! Here is what David Campbell writes:

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“As Fikret Alic´ has observed: ‘I would like to say that behind the cameramen there were Serb soldiers and they shouted to write everybody’s names who said something in front of the camera’. See ‘Bosnian Prisoner Praises ITN Crew’. Ian Williams noted the severe restrictions on their capacity to report freely – including the fact the ‘guards stood over everybody we spoke to’ –in a live interview following the broadcast of his report.”

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Unfortunately for David Campbell we have the Emperor’s Clothes’ film “Judgement” in our possession:

There are NO Serbian “military film crews”present.A Serbian RTS ["Radio Television Serbia"TV] cameraman dressed in a khaki green camouflage shirt does not equal “a military film crew”. This is a deliberate twisting of the facts by David Campbell in order to support the racist anti-Serbian lying of ITN & its ally: the Islamist terrorist employment agency otherwise known as the Guardian newspaper (one of their former journalists was exposed as having been connected to a major Islamofascist terrorist group with links to al Qaeda; after which he was fired).

In the Emperor’s Clothes film,“Judgement”Penny Marshall can clearly be seen wearing a bulky military flak jacket.

Hmmmm….I wonder why Ms. Marshall is wearing a military flak jacket?

Did Ms. Marshall join the British army without telling us?

Hold on a minute, it’s August 5, 1992, in Bosnia Herzegovina, and a brutal inter-religious/ethnic war is raging all around between four ethnic/religious and political factions – with bullets and shells flying all over the place – maybe that has something to do with it.

Does that now make Penny Marshall a member of a “military film crew”? According to Dr. Campbell’s “logic”, it most certainly does.

There is NOBODY from the Bosnian Serb authorities – dressed in civilian or military clothing – intimidating or “standing over”ANYBODY in the film – whether they be Bosnian muslim refugees or ITN/Guardian journalists or camera-crew members – NOT at the 25:20 minute mark – as  David Campbell claims – or ANYWHERE ELSE in the entire film!

There are no “armed guards”tagging along with Ms. Marshall and her ITN film crew or the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy.

NOWHERE does ANY Bosnian muslim refugee show visible signs of fear at the Trnopolje refugee collection center (described by the British media as a supposed ‘death camp’ that “…started life as a transit camp..” and this alleged ‘death camp’ according to the British media DOUBLED as a “refugee transit camp” which “…housed the refugees”!

NOWHERE does even ONE Bosnian muslim refugee at Trnopolje show even the slightest visible hint of fear, anxiety or tension.

In fact, most of the refugees are smiling and laughing: even casually joking with Ms. Marshall.

The above is hardly surprising, since as pointed out earlier, the Bosnian Serbs themselves invited Ms. Marshall, ITN cameramen and the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy – providing all of them full protection via military escort in the middle of a war zone – to visit both the Trnopolje refugee center and the Omarska POW camp to show how ludicrous Roy Gutman’s stories of “death camps”(stories based primarily on Izetbegovic’s SDA party – the illegitimate Sarajevo- based “Bosnian government” – sources & their handsomely paid American P.R. firm, “Ruder Finn” – really were).
EVERYONE in the film is quite calm and relaxed (except the arrogant Ms.Penny Marshall, whom was agitating for a “death camp scoop” because of immense pressure brought to bear on her by ITN’s management, due to Mr.Roy Gutman’s previous phony “death camp”reports in New York’s “Newsday” newspaper back in July, 1992).

All of the refugees appear quite calm – with many of them, as noted above, smiling, joking and laughing amongst themselves – including most notably, Fikret Alic himself (that’s right, the real skinny looking one whom supposedly was “beaten”, “pistol whipped” and had “four of his teeth knocked out”according to the NATO-owned ICTY Kangaroo Court in The Hague) while showing ZERO physical evidence of any such mistreatment – while other refugees were so calm that they almost appeared bored and nonchalant with the attention they were getting from Ms. Marshall, ITN’s camera crew and the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy.

David Campbell is so eager to defend the ITN/Guardian version of events that he displays the same capacity for dishonesty and Orwellian “doublethink”as his sources: the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy, Ian Williams and ITN’s Penny Marshall.

For example, David Campbell informs us that the man in the overalls, a muslim refugee named “Mekhmet”, whom – on camera – said to Ms. Penny Marshall regarding Trnopolje that: “it’s a refugee camp, NOT a prison!” (Mekhmet is to the right of Fikret Alic, and is the guy holding the less than 5 foot tall broken down CHICKEN WIRE fence enclosing Ms. Marshall and the ITN/Guardian team) was - according to Mr.Campbell’s claims – supposedly “imprisoned” by the Bosnian Serbs at Trnopolje, but that he also came to Trnopolje “VOLUNTARILY”!

So according to Mr.Campbell’s “logic” – or rather the lack of it – in support of the ITN/Guardian & Izetbegovic government’s racist-Islamist version of events – Mekhmet is now a “voluntarily” imprisoned refugee!!! (since according to the British tabloid press, Trnopolje, whilst supposedly being a “death camp” where “people were murdered and raped on a daily basis”- also DOUBLED as a refugee collection center – since Trnopolje, according to the very same British media “…ALSO HOUSED THE REFUGEES”!! 
We are also informed by Mr. Campbell that the Bosnian muslim medic, a certain Dr. Merdzianic, whom was supposedly “forced”to look after the refugees’ health at Trnopolje, was able to “secretly” hand over a camera to Ms. Marshall containing film – supposedly of “beaten and tortured”Bosnian muslim “inmates”.

How could this have been done in “secret” if there were Bosnian Serb “guards”watching the good muslim doctor’s every move? Why would the Bosnian Serbs even ALLOW Ms. Marshall to go anywhere near Dr. Merdzianic, let alone interview him if they were indeed guilty of such horrendous atrocities as claimed by Dr. Merdzianic? Hardly surprisingly, Mr. Campbell doesn’t bother to tell us.

Mr.Campbell also doesn’t explain to us why the Bosnian Serbs INVITED Ms. Marshall and her film crew to Trnopolje and Omarska, whilst as pointed out by the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] at the time of Ms. Marshall’s visit, both the Bosnian muslim Izetbegovic SDA authorities AND the Bosnian Croat HDZ authorities under Messrs. Mate Boban & Franjo Tudjman, outright REFUSED to allow Western journalists and Red Cross/UN personell access to THEIR prisoner of war camps where they were holding Bosnian Serbs as well as Bosnian muslims loyal to the legitimate ELECTED muslim leader of Bosnia, Mr. Fikret Abdic.

Keep in mind that at the ITN vs LM libel trial, ITN claimed, incredibly, to have actually “LOST” (?!) the uncut raw film footage (i.e. its so-called “rushes”) of the “pictures that SHOCKED THE WORLD”! As Deichmann recounts, this caused a great uproar and commotion in the courtroom at the time.

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“Interestingly, ITN appears to have lost a crucial videotape of the uncut rushes from which the report was edited together — an accident, of course”.

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http://lists.peacelink.it/balcani/msg00151.html

The above comment was made by Philip Hammond soon after the ITn vs LM libel trial verdict.

Mr. Philip Hammond of the UK, co-editor with US Professor Edward Herman, of the University of Pennsylvania, analyzed media coverage of wartime events in Kosovo in ex-Yugoslavia in their book “Degraded Capability: the Media and the Kosovo Crisis”

It is hardly surprising that ITN suddenly claimed to have “lost”the raw unedited footage, since it would have clearly shown how Ms. Marshall, her ITN film crew and the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy all ended up getting inside the CHICKEN WIRE fence-enclosed barn and transformer station – from which Ms. Marshall and her crew filmed in order to make it look like the Trnopolje refugees were the ones enclosed by barbed wire, and thus give the image of a supposed “death camp”.
Here is what Jared Israel had to say about the ITN vs LM trial:

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“If, throughout the trial, LM and Deichmann had adopted the strategy of exposing ITN’s pattern of lying about the Serbs, then they would have had the moral stature to turn the physician’s testimony against ITN by exposing the physician as a cynical liar.

For example, they might have said to that doctor, ‘You have made some horrific charges. But some things about your story are puzzling. You say you had to hand Penny Marshall your camera in secret, because, you claim, the Serbs were watching and you had much to fear. Could you elaborate?’

After the doctor waxed poetic about how he was under scrutiny with an ever-present threat of deadly reprisals, the defense could have asked, ‘Why did you believe the Serbs wouldn’t want you to give Ms. Marshall your film?’ The doctor would explain that of course they were afraid of the truth getting to the public. The defense could have responded, ‘There was quite a public hue and cry about supposed Serb concentration camps at that time wasn’t there? And the Serbs denied it, didn’t they?’ Then the defense could ask, ‘If you are telling the truth about supposed monstrous abuses at Trnopolje, and if the Serbs therefore wanted desperately not to let the truth get out, then why did the Serb leaders invite ITN to film and interview people in Trnopolje? Why was Ms. Marshall allowed to speak to you in the first place?”

Deichmann writes that the court permitted LM to use the uncut film that ITN shot at Trnopolje. This film is almost identical to footage shot by the RTS (Serbian TV) crew that filmed alongside ITN. The RTS footage was used to make the Emperor’s Clothes movie, ‘Judgment!’ As anyone who has seen ‘Judgment!’ will testify, the Bosnian Muslim refugees at Trnopolje wandered about freely.

They gave casually disdainful answers when asked if they were being mistreated – as if the idea were ridiculous. Beaten men, men who are threatened with violent reprisals (even death!), may out of fear deny they are being harmed, but they begrudge such lies. They are sullen, not relaxed and casual, like the refugees in ‘Judgment!’ and, therefore, also in the uncut ITN footage.

The defense could have played the footage in which one of the Muslim refugees, Mehmet, chats amiably with Penny Marshall, while a large group of refugees looks on, with everyone except Penny Marshall appearing relaxed, reasonably cheerful, and with no evidence of fear.

They could have asked the doctor, ‘Do you see any guards here?’ And, ‘If your stories were true, wouldn’t these be the men who were being beaten and killed; wouldn’t it be their wives and girlfriends and mothers who were being raped. How do you explain that they joke with Penny Marshall?

Why does the refugee, Mehmet, reject Penny Marshall’s persistent attempts to get him to say the Serbs are mistreating the Muslims? Why does Mehmet say the Serbs are kind, “very kind”? And how do you explain the fact that there are no guards?

Are you claiming that the Serbs placed you, a doctor, under close watch, but they did not even send a guard to tag along alongside Penny Marshall’s film crew when she interviewed these men – the very ones you say were being beaten and killed?

I submit, doctor, that your story about rapes and beatings is, based on the evidence of our own eyes, a fabrication.’

Why does Deichmann accept that “the photos [supposedly passed secretly to Penny Marshall] showed Bosnian Muslims who had been beaten and mishandled.”

How could he know when and where the “poorly lighted photographs” shown at the trial by ITN had really been taken?

How could he know the photos were not phonies? Couldn’t the people in those photos have been actors? Or mightn’t they have been Muslims or even Orthodox Christian Serbs who had been photographed elsewhere? Who knows?

Didn’t this trial take place precisely because LM challenged the authenticity of the “pictures that fooled the world”?

Wasn’t ITN suing because Deichmann had written that the ITN pictures were “fakes”? If ITN pedaled fake pictures before, why on earth did Deichmann say, without hesitation, that they were peddling real pictures now?

Deichmann writes, “The physician described on the witness stand the rape and assault of defenseless civilians.” Note he does not even use the term, “alleged.” To be accused of rape and assault by this doctor was to be convicted.

Why?

can’t one imagine a few possible reasons for the good doctor to have lied? Such as:

a) he was promised some reward if he lied or

b) he was afraid of what would happen to him and/or his family back in Bosnia if he did not lie.

Deichmann says the man’s testimony was “the most moving.”

Why?

Why in heaven’s name did the LM people refuse to cross-examine the physician?

I think they did not challenge the doctor’s testimony because, having been caught up in great events, they had first taken a brave stand and then, seeing that the enemy had raised the stakes (by attacking LM all-out) they surrendered.

Whether or not there was ever an explicit discussion between some representative of Deichmann and/or LM and the ITN people, in effect LM-Deichmann and ITN cut a deal. I will explain the nature of this deal later.

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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/missing.htm

The article about Trnopolje from the online Wikipedia encyclopedia in early 2007 contains some obvious absurdities and self-contradictory claims. It states that Trnopolje was a “detention camp” – in other words, a prison complex which implies that the “inmates” are imprisoned behind tall and strong wire fences and NOT free to come and go as they please. Then in the very same sentence, it states that:

“Trnopolje was a relatively minimal-security staging area…”

thus certainly implying that it was most definitely NOT a “prison”.

In other words by using the phrase “relatively minimal-security staging area”,the author is clearly implying that people could very easily escape at any time; thus according to this statement, Trnopolje was absolutely NOTHING like a WW2 Nazi style “concentration camp”as the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy claims (perhaps Mr. Vulliamy has never seen what a real “concentration camp” looks like: 30 foot high guard towers in each corner containing machine gun nests and surrounded by 10 foot high electrified fences and/or razor sharp barbed wire).

The implication that people could not only escape with relative ease but that in fact that they could come and go as they pleased is confirmed again in the very same sentence! It states that:

 ”detainees…were allowed to forage for food outside the detention area’s perimeter”!

First its a “concentration camp”, then it’s a “detention camp”, then its a “minimal-security staging area” where “detainees” are even allowed to go outside in search of food!

And this sentence is somehow supposed to explain away how everyone except Fikret Alic was emaciated looking (whilst smiling and laughing) whilst many of the other so-called “detainees” had pot bellies:

“…detainees were fed only sporadically,but were allowed to forage for food outside the detention area’s perimeter”.

Clearly implying that Fikret Alic must have been fed so “sporadically” that he ended up so thin, that whilst being allowed to leave the “minimal-security staging area” of Trnopolje where he was “allowed to forage for food outside the detention area’s perimeter”, Mr. Alic was somehow so incompetent (or unlucky) that he was incapable of finding food and feeding himself, whilst all the other “detainees”were clearly able to do so, since, we are told by Wikipedia:

“this explains the widely varying nourishment condition of the inmates.”

So we have a “concentration camp” which isn’t, but rather a “detention camp” which really isn’t, but rather a “minimal-security staging area” which is so minimally secure that “detainees” are even allowed to go outside the “perimeter” – since it did not have the luxury of “concentration camp” style security benefits like 10 foot high electrified and/or razor wire fences – in order to “forage for food”.
Incidentally, if we want to know why Wikipedia can engage in such preposterous absurdities as above, one only need look at its track record on the subject of the Balkans conflict in ex-Yugoslavia.

Wikipedia is fast becoming a totally discredited source of information on the Balkans conflicts specifically, as it has been exposed on numerous occasions as having deliberately censored exculpatory evidence vis-a-vis the Serbs accused of “war crimes”and the deliberate censorship of Croatian Ustasha Nazis’ and Bosnian Islamist Fascists’ war crimes against Serb civilians, along with the suppression of the Tudjman HDZ Croatian Ustasha Nazis’ and Izetbegovic SDA Bosnian Islamist Fascists’  pro-Nazi, pro-genocidal views expressed prior to the outbreak of war – as well as during the war.
One notorious example is the almost WORD for WORD copying of the Croatian HDZ ruling party’s propaganda information ministry hagiography of the late Croatian pro-Ustasha Nazi Hitler loving president, Franjo Tudjman – whom wrote in his 1989 Croatian version of Mein Kampf: “Wastelands of Historical Truth”(aka “Wastelands of Historical Reality”) the following:

“The establishment of Hitler’s New Order could be justified by the need to be rid of the Jews, as well as to correct the French-British sin of the (post WW1) Versailles setup” and… “Genocidal violence is a natural phenomenon in harmony with the societal and mythologically Divine nature. Genocide is not only permitted it is also recommended,even commanded by the Word of the Almighty, whenever it is useful for the survival or the restoration of the earthly kingdom of the chosen nation, or for the preservation and spreading of its one and only correct faith”.

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2005/06/wikipedia-nazi-monopoly-on-tudjman.html
The Guardian’s censorship of the truth of the genocide of tens of thousands of Serbian civilians and the ethnic cleansing of over a million and a half more, perpetrated against the Serbs by the racist Tudjman HDZ neo-Fascist Ustasha Croats, the KLA Islamist Nazi terrorist leaders: Ceku,Haradinaj,Thaci,Demaci and the Bosnian Izetbegovic SDA Islamofascists -whom incidentally  glorify the Nazi Waffen SS Handzar division from World War 2 - speaks volumes.
In kindergarten, we all learn a very basic rule, which I like to call “The Boy Who Cried Wolf Principle.”

How does this rule work? Suppose that you know this person, whom we will call Ed Vulliamy of the Guardian, and suppose that Ed Vulliamy, in the past has lied to you repeatedly, dramatically, and shamelessly about topic A over many years.

The next time that Ed Vulliamy of the Guardian makes an assertion about topic A with the same slant as assertions on topic A that have repeatedly been huge lies, you have to make one of two choices:

1) Make the provisional assumption that Ed Vulliamy is lying again (until proven otherwise); or

2) Make the provisional assumption that Ed Vulliamy is, for the first time, telling the truth (until proven otherwise).

If you choose the second option you demonstrate that you are an imbecile who cannot reason. This is what Wikipedia, this guy Ed Vulliamy of the Guardian and Penny Marshall of ITN would have us do.

The British Guardian is clearly guilty of crimes against peace by suppressing the truth of the genocide of tens of thousands of Serbian civilians and the ethnic cleansing of over a million and a half more, perpetrated against the Serbs by the racist Tudjman HDZ neo-Fascist Ustasha Croats, the KLA Ceku/Haradinaj/Thaci Islamist Nazi drug-running, child-sex slavery trafficking terrorists and the Izetbegovic SDA Islamist Nazis from 1991 to 1999 – inciting a racist war against the Serbs for an entire decade – by incessantly screaming out for the Serbs to be bombed out of their ancestral homes by NATO on behalf of NATO’s proxies: the real genocidal Nazis of Tudjman, Izetbegovic & Ceku/Thaci/Haradinaj of the KLA – on the basis of photographic fakery and egregious outright lies.

They – along with the BBC & ITN- should have been tried and punished for these journalistic crimes of racist incitement to war – crimes against peace in support of self-confessed genocidal Nazis and Islamist Fascist terrorists – in their publicly announced commitment to ethnic cleansing campaigns of mass murder PRIOR to the outbreak of war – massive crimes of genocide which the Guardian and ITN  knowingly covered up and suppressed, whitewashed, distorted and skewed the truth of, for the last 17 years.
 

By Felix Quigley

Having dealt with some of the background to Srebrenica we now turn to the lies, especially those spread by the British Media. One person who runs a blog in Britain, called Oliver Kamm, and his associate called Marko Attila Hoare have continually referred to Srebrenica as if there was no doubt whatsoever that there was a massacre carried out by the Serbs. The evidence which Kamm puts forward is never a direct one of evidence. Basically he says there was a massacre because of two proofs.

1. The Hague Kangaroo Court reached that conclusion.

2. The Serb Government who run affairs in the Serb part of Bosnia “said so”.

So having dealt with some of the background to Srebrenica we now are moving in to deal with the “evidence” as claimed by Kamm above.

In this article we are dealing with Number 2, that the Serb Government in Bosnia admitted to the massacre. It is a strange tale, one which tells an awful lot of how the forces of Imperialism have come to dominate the whole of former Yugoslavia.

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September 8, 2003

US Official Implicated With Bosnian High Representative Ashdown in Attempting to Force Fabricated Report on Srebrenica

Exclusive. Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS, with input from sources in Sarajevo and elsewhere. Very reliable sources within the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other sources in Sarajevo, have told GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily that a seconded US official, Amb. Donald S. Hays, the Deputy High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been actively engaged in attempts to force a fabricated report to be published on the controversial wartime fighting at the city of Srebrenica.

Amb. Hays, presumably at the insistence of High Representative Paddy Ashdown, the former British politician, has demanded the publication of a so-called “final report” on an alleged mass-killing of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, during the Bosnian civil war, by the Government of Republica Srpska, the predominantly Serbian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In essence, Amb. Hays and Lord Ashdown are attempting to force the Government of Republica Srpska (RS) to admit that Serbs were responsible for killing thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica.

The Government of Republica Srpska’s leadership — indeed any of the elected officials of the state — can be summarily dismissed immediately by the High Representative at any time should they refuse to obey his orders, regardless of whether or not the officials were democratically elected or whether the High Representative’s own actions violate the Dayton Accords, which he was put in office to sustain. This threat was implicit in the ultimatum delivered by Amb. Hays in a series of meetings he held with the Republica Srpska Prime Minister, Mladen Ivanic, in late August and early September 2003 in Banja Luka, the RS capital. 

Amb. Hays presented the Prime Minister with a document — on the letterhead of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) — which the Government of Republica Srpska was “advised” to accept as à fait accompli, in which three major points were made. The content of the two-page document was to be re-issued by the Government of Republica Srpska, probably through the RS Office of Human Rights, as though it represented the RS “final report” on the Srebrenica issue. Significantly, the RS has been conducting a detailed and thorough investigation of the issue and has already issued some material which acknowledged Serbian responsibility for some actions but which also contained a wide range of other information which showed the conflict in a much more detailed light. The RS office was established specifically to assist the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, where prosecutions for war crimes have been underway.

The RS investigations are, in fact, far from over.

The ICTY has also been conducting its own investigation into the Srebrenica allegations, and its investigation is also far from over. As a result, the ICTY, having heard about the OHR’s pressure to force a statement on the issue, essentially accepting Serb blame for war crimes, has distanced itself from the OHR position and has refused to go along with Amb. Hays’ insistence on the statement by the RS Government in Banja Luka.

It appeared that the OHR wanted the statement issued before the opening of a Muslim monument — essentially a shrine which was being promoted as a site for annual Muslim pilgrimages from around the world — memorializing the radical Islamist allegations about events in Srebrenica to occur on September 19, 2003. The unveiling of the monument would be attended by former US Pres. William Clinton, and “finalizing” the Srebrenica case would help stop the ongoing wave of allegations of illegal Clinton Administration activity in supporting radical Islamist activities in Bosnia during the 1990s. This is particularly critical given the fact that a significant number of the Islamist terrorists involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States had strong links into the Bosnian Muslims whom Clinton had supported.

The US Embassy in Sarajevo donated $1-million to the construction of the “shrine”, even though all proper investigations of the Srebrenica affair in fact showed the Islamists’ claims to be unsubstantiated and, in many respects, without foundation at all.

Recent information emerging from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and particularly from the RS investigations into the Srebrenica affair and other aspects of terrorism in the region, have highlighted the fact that the Clinton Administration had, during the war, facilitated the Islamist terrorist activities because of the Clinton Administration’s need to demonize the Serbs in order to provide a casus belli for US-led military actions in the area to distract from domestic US political problems. Significantly, when the Muslim representatives involved in building the “shrine” in Srebrenica approached New York Mayor Michael Blumberg to establish a sister-city relationship with New York, the Mayor refused, based on intelligence showing the link between the Bosnian Islamists and the al-Qaida attacks on  his city.

Amb. Hays’ two-page document was expected to lead to a statement, possibly as early as September 8, 2003, by RS officials, which would not only serve to protect the Clinton Administration officials, including the former US President, but would also serve as an admission of guilt of Serbs for killing thousands of Muslims who, in fact, were not known to have been killed. Several hundred bodies have been found as a result of the fighting in and around Srebrenica, but the Islamists and their supporters have claimed figures which grow higher with each telling, with figures now claiming some 15,000 alleged deaths. At the same time, there is no acknowledgement of the Muslim killing of thousands of Serbs at Srebrenica earlier in the war, when the city was supposed to have been a demilitarized zone.

The document which Hays has been pushing essentially forces the RS Government to state that:

1. Nothing is unclear in the Srebrenica investigation except the number of victims. In other words, the Islamist propaganda, supported by Ashdown — who has long been disavowed in the UK by his former colleagues in the Royal Marines because of his unequivocal acceptance of Islamist propaganda — is accepted as fact by the RS Government, thereby admitting guilt for crimes never committed;

2. The RS apologizes to the Muslims for earlier RS statements which disputed the Islamist propaganda; and

3. A new commission would be organized which would investigate further what happened at Srebrenica, despite the RS Government’s à priori acceptance — implicit in point one of the statement — of the alleged crime. This “commission” would include three individuals from RS (not necessarily selected by the RS Government), three from the “international community” and one from an unspecified non-governmental organization. 

The Government of RS would have to pay for the work of the new “commission”.

Sources in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Washington have made it clear to GIS that the present US Bush Administration has been totally ignoring developments in the former Yugoslavia because of preoccupations with Iraq and the “war on terror”, while former Clinton Administration appointees, actively supported by the George Soros Foundation — which has been avowedly anti-Serb and anti-Bush — have been able to compound their control of the area. Significantly, as numerous GIS reports have shown, the Iranian and al-Qaida/bin Laden terrorist infrastructure in Bosnia and Serbia-Montenegro has been increasingly active during 2003, preparing for a new breakout to draw US pressure away from Iran and al-Qaida activities elsewhere.

[See, particularly, Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, June 12, 2003: Terrorism in the Balkans and the Wider Ramifications for the Global “War on Terror”, and Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, August 29, 2003: Osama bin Laden Focuses on the Balkans for the New Wave of Anti-Western Terrorism.]

One moderate Muslim source in Sarajevo told GIS: “If the Bush Administration does not act soon, terrorism against US and Western interests will erupt soon across much of the Balkans, and from the Balkans into the rest of the world. And all of this seems to be just to allow the old US Administration of Clinton to cover their tracks. The radicals not only destroyed the Serbs, they also destroyed the lives of moderate Muslims. Now they will start another war. Why is the Bush Administration following the policies of the Clinton Administration? Why are Clinton people still running all the key posts in American embassies in the region?”

According to the OHR website, the Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald S. Hays, a US diplomat, took up his duties with the OHR in July 2001. Between 1999 and 2001 he was the US Representative to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform, with ambassadorial rank. Previously he had served in the State Department as the Director of the Office of Management Policy and Planning and as the Executive Director of the European Affairs Bureau. He has also been posted to US embassies in Bonn, Islamabad, Dakar, Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Saigon. Ambassador Hays graduated in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Sep0803.htm

By Felix Quigley

The key to understanding that Srebrenica was a totally manufactured Big Lie rests in understanding that it was created by US and EU Imperialism along with Islamofascism for a specific purpose and that it relied on the slavish promulgation of totally false information by the Media and by a layer of people around the British Media in particular.

There are two sides to this. There was the way that Islamofascists used the “safe” area set up by the UN in Srebrenica town, but at night in the outlying districts the Islamofascists led by Nasir Oric were able to attack defenceless Serb farmsteads. You see the UN had not disarmed the Islamist Army and could not! The Serbs were very much the small farmers of Bosnia and in their isolated homesteads were very vulnerable. For the actual murders of Nasir Oric you can visit our article on this site.

http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/the-real-srebrenica-genocide-the-mass-murder-of-serbs-in-srebrenica-and-gorazde/

The extract from the article which we will now publish shows that the Serbs walked into an elaborately prepared trap. There is evidence to show that this trap was set up in meetings between Clinton and Izetbegovic. The best description of this trap is contained in the article produced on Emperors New Clothes and written by Carlos Martins Branco, who was a UN Military Observer in Bosnia at that very time. Thus the authenticity cannot be faulted:

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The attack on Srebrenica, with no help from Belgrade, was completely unnecessary and proved to be one of the most significant examples of the political failure of the Serbian leadership.

Meanwhile the western media exacerbated the situation by transforming the enclaves into a powerful mass-media icon; a situation which Izetbegovic was quick to exploit. CNN had daily broadcasts of the [supposed] images of “mass graves for thousands of corpses,” [supposedly] obtained from spy satellites. Despite the [supposed] microscopic precision in the localization of these “graves,” it is certain that no discovery to date has confirmed such suspicions. Since there are no longer restrictions on [NATO troops] movement [throughout Bosnia], we inevitably speculate on why they have still not been shown to the world.

[Note from EC: Mr. Branco is using irony to convey his belief that the supposed mass graves do not exist. However, given the effect of media repetition of the supposed massacre story, irony is easily missed; hence our repeated insert of "supposed."]

If there had been a premeditated [Serbian] plan of genocide, instead of attacking in only one direction, from the south to the north – which left the possibility of escape to the north and west, the Serbs would have established a siege in order to ensure that no one escaped. The UN observation posts to the north of the enclave were never disturbed and remained in activity after the cessation of military operations. There are obviously mass graves in the outskirts of Srebrenica as in the rest of ex-Yugoslavia where combat has occurred, but there are no grounds for the campaign which was mounted, nor the numbers advanced by CNN. [Large graves are often dug after a battle in order to dispose of bodies as part of battlefield clean-up. - EC]

The mass graves are filled by a limited number of corpses from both sides, the consequence of heated battle and combat and not the result of a premeditated plan of genocide, as occurred against the Serbian populations in Krajina, [7] in the Summer of 1995, when the Croatian army implemented the mass murder of all Serbians found there. In this instance, [in the instance of the fall of Krajina] the media maintained an absolute silence, despite the fact that the genocide occurred over a three month period. The objective of Srebrenica was ethnic cleansing and not genocide, unlike what happened in Krajina, in which although there was no military resistance, the Croatian army decimated villages.

Despite knowledge of the fact that the enclaves were already a lost cause, Sarajevo insisted in drawing political dividends from the fact. The receptivity which had been created in the eyes of public opinion made it easier to sell the thesis of genocide.

But of even greater importance than the genocide thesis and the political isolation of the Serbs, was blackmailing of the UN: either the UN joined forces with the Sarajevo government in the conflict (which subsequently happened) or the UN would be completely discredited in the eyes of the public, leading in turn to support for Bosnia [i.e., Bosnian Muslim extremists]. Srebrenica was the last straw which led western governments to reach agreement on the need to cease their “neutrality” and commence [an open] military action against one side in the conflict [i.e., the Bosnian Serbs]. It was the last straw which united the West in their desire to break “Serbian bestiality”. Sarajevo [the Muslim extremist’s so-called 'government'] was conscious of the fact that it lacked the military capacity to defeat the [Bosnian] Serbs. It was necessary to create conditions via which the international community [i.e. the West] could do this for them. Srebrenica played a vital role in this process.

Srebrenica represents one of a series of acts by the Serbian leaders intended to provoke the UN, in order to demonstrate their impotence. This was a serious strategic error which would cost them dear. The side which had everything to win by demonstrating the impotence of the UN was the Sarajevo leadership and not that of Pale [capital of Republika Srpska]. In 1995 it was clear that the change in the status quo required a powerful intervention which would overthrow the Serbian military power. Srebrenica was one of the pretexts, resulting from the short-sightedness of the Bosnian Serbian leaders.

The besieged [Muslim] forces could have easily defended the enclave, at least for much longer, if they had been well led. It proved convenient to let the enclave fall in this manner. Since the enclave was doomed to fall, it was preferable to let this happen in the most beneficial manner possible. But this would only have been viable if Sarajevo had political initiative and freedom of movement, which would never occur at the negotiating table. The deliberate fall of the enclave might appear to be an act of terrible Machiavellian orchestration, [obviously designed in the minds of the Bosnian Muslims' US advisers - EC] but the truth is that the Sarajevo government had much to gain, as proved to be the case. Srebrenica was not a zero-sum game. The Serbians won a military victory but with highly negative political side-effects, which helped result in their definitive ostracization.

We might add a final curious note. As the UN observation posts were attacked, and proved impossible to maintain, the [UN] forces withdrew. The barricades set up by the Muslim army did not let the troops pass. These [UN] troops were not treated as soldiers fleeing from the front line, but rather with a sordid differentiation.

The Muslims not only refused to fight to defend themselves, they forced others [i.e., the Dutch/UN force] to fight on their behalf. In one instance, the commander of a Dutch vehicle decided after conversations with ABiH [Bosnian Muslim force] to pass [their] barrier. [Dutch positions were in front of the Muslim positions - i.e. between the Muslims forces and the attacking Serbs.] A Muslim soldier threw a hand grenade whose fragments mortally wounded him. The only UN soldier to die in the Srebrenica offensive was killed by the Muslims.

Carlos Martins Branco
European University Institute
Department of Social and Political Sciences
Badia Fiesolana
Italy

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http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/branco-1.htm

The lessons from this are enormous. The report above refers continually to the Muslims, but the Muslims themselves, as in every such case, were divided and the Islamofascist Muslims of Izetbegovic had instituted a regime of terror against any Muslims who would oppose his Islamist programme.

Nevertheless what Branco spells out in very clear fashion is that in order to meet these kinds of threat there is need for a leadership of a very special type.

In fact it is necessary to go back and study the policies of the United Front, which Leon Trotsky fought for in the 30s in the fight against Fascism, because that is what the Serbs were continually faced with in those days.

This issue of leadership was expressed by Branco in the following. It is essentially the very same isue which is faced by the Jews of Israel as they face the Islamofascist and Imperialist onslught in Gaza and elsewhere.

I do believe that Srebrenica shows a pattern of behaviour of the warring factions in the conflict: on the one hand, the Bosnian Muslims provoking the Serbs and trying hard to convince the international community to intervene by force against the Serbs in order to solve the military question; on the other hand, the Serb leadership’s lack of intelligence giving Muslims the justifications and arguments they were looking for. I know that some of you won’t enjoy the contents of the article. For those, sorry.