Mita Srbin

� THE LAND SOAKED WITH THE BLOOD

�THE TRUTH AND THE LESS KNOWN FACTS ABOUT CROATS... AND

�� JEWS

�� 1918 ‑ 1995

�� (Afore‑official/undone edition)

��

�� PUBLISHER: B.O. Press. Serbia. 2000.

��

�� Introduction

�� Old, or first, Croats are of Khazar descent? Are they an Ashkenazic tribe from the far

�� East of Europe? Maybe. Maybe not. Personally, I'm not sure. We still don't have enough

�� proofs for this theory... there are no proofs about. Not enough. But right now it doesn't

�� atter.

�� For the record, I'd like to make it clear ‑ the following story is based on FACTS.

�� Nationalists across the world have been giving for years their support to Croats. They

�� thought and miserly believed that Croats are the people with nationalists and racialists

�� aspirations who fought for freedom and against Communist regime in Serbia. Well, the

�� truth is a 'little bit' different.

�� This booklet contains the text of a most revealing and shocking story of Croats and

�� crimes not surpassed for brutality and atrocity in the whole history of Europe.

��

�� Author.��

�� Croats: Serb‑haters and Jew‑loving hypocrites

�� Croatian people never have had a completely independent state. Over the

�� centuries, Croat‑sattled territories were parts and provinces of various kingdoms and

�� states.

�� In the 20th century, instantly after the WW1, victorious Serbian army rescued Croatian people

from the "prison" ‑ what the Croats then called Austro‑Hungary.�

�� Thus, Croatia joined Serbia in the first Yugoslav kingdom. Unfortunately, Croatian gratitude was

very short. From 1918 onward, Croatian politicians��

�� like� Stiepan Radich (communist), Macek (Jew) and later Pavelich (married to Jewess) had

been deliberately teaching their people to hate Serbs. For twenty‑three

�� years Croatian leaders had been persuading the Croat peasants and workers that the Serbian

"imperialists and oppressors" caused all their troubles and suffering.

�� Before them, there was a "legendary" Josip Franck. Franck (or Frank), who was

�� pureblooded Jew and dedicated freemason, was the "founding father" of Croatian racial

�� chauvinist ideology. For him, Croats are not part of the European race. He says that all

�� nations in the region of Balkans belong to "Croatian Race", including Bosnian muslims

�� Franck stated that Bosnian muslims are "the flowers of the Croatian Race"). Of course,

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�� Who was Ante Starchevich?

�� He was most important Croatian ideologist and inspirator of the hate towards Serbs, after Josip

�� Franck. The author of theory of the racial and religious superiority of Croats over many

�� European peoples, especially over the Serbs. He maintained that "the Croatian people could

�� not restore its national State without prior extermination of the Serbian people". With Eugen

�� Kvaternik (probably Jew), he establish the Croatian Party of Right in 1861. Starcevic predicated

�� his policy on the so‑called "Croatian State right" and called for the creation of "Greater Croatia"

�� from the Alps to the Prokletie Mountains. Denying the political indIviduality and territorial

�� sovereignity of the Serbs in old Serbian provinces of Slavonia and Dalmatia, he and his followers

�� claimed that Serbs were "Orthodox Croats". However they thought of Croats as a superior and

�� of Serbs as an inferior race. The racial theory of Ante Starcevic and his "Franck‑loving"

�� successors resulted in the "Ustas‑(h)a" movement's atempts to create a pure Croatian and

�� Catholic‑only independent State of Croatia in the World War Two. Starcevic's statements that

�� the Serbs were a "race of "rats" and that, for this reason, they should be axed" was put into

�� practice in the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945.

��

�� Return of the Ante Pavelich and his Ustasha movement

�� As the danger of war approached, Yugoslav prince Paul (Pavle) felt it essential to solve the

�� Croatian question by democratic means. He thought that Milan Stojadinovic was incapable to

�� do it as he was Serb nationalist and pro‑German. In february 1939 he replaced him as premier

�� with Dragisa Cvetkovic. The Italian invasion of Albania in April was a further warning. After some

�� setbacks, an agreement with the Croats was achieved before war broke out.

�� The Cvetkovic‑Mac(h)ek agreement of August 1939 set up single Croatian province, which

�� included most territories of Croatian population. The administration of this area was placed in

�� the hands of Macek* and his party (Croatian Peasant Party) which was also represented in the

�� central Yugoslav government.

��

�� The agreement had an uncertain reception in both Serbia and Croatia: the Serbian politicians

�� felt betrayed by Macek, who appeared to have made a deal with the dictatorship at the expense

�� of the Serbian people; and on the Croatian side, though the majority accepted the

�� arrangement they (Croats) feared that the triumph of Axis powers would preclude them to set

�� up an independent Croatian state under their control, if Serbs keep Yugoslavia. So they

�� remained implacably opposed to Yugoslav state. But when an anglophile Yugoslav

�� government refused (already signed) pact with Adolf Hitler, Germans started to show their

�� interest in the exiled clandestine Marxist and Ustasha leader Ante Pavelich.

�� Soon, Ante Pavelich returned to Croatia and instantly came into power, supported by 90% of

�� Croatian population. Thus, Ustasha movement was the main force in Croatia.

�� "Bullets for Serbs"

�� On April 12, 1941, two days after Croatia was proclaimed for an independent state, an

�� order was published in the Zagreb (Croatia's capital) newspapers requiring all Serbs to

�� leave the country within twenty‑four hours and threatening that anyone hiding Serbs

�� would be shot! At that time in Croatia third of the population was actually Serb. This

�� order by Dr. Ante Pavelich, head of the "Independent State of Croatia", was a prelude

�� to a massacres of Serbs not surpassed for brutality and atrocity in the whole sorrowful

�� history of the European race. Even the communist massacres of the innocent people in

�� Russia, Ukraine, Poland, etc, incredible as this sounds, pale by comparison. More than

�� 600,000 defenseless Serbs, long resident in 'Croatia', including men, women, and small

�� children, died in literally unprintable circumstances and another half‑million were driven

�� from their homes, penniless and dying of starvation by the wayside!

�� Devout Catholic, Dr. Mile Budak (Minister of Education and Cults in the Independent State of

�� Croatia's government) said on July 22, 1941:� "The movement of the Ustasha is based on

�� religion. For Serbs we have three million bullets. We shall kill one part of the Serbs. We

�� shall deport another, and the rest of them will be forced to embrace our Roman Catholic faith.

�� Thus, our new Croatia will get rid of all Serbs in our midst in order to become one hundred

�� percent Catholic within ten years."

�� Massacres

�� The organised terrorist attacks on Serbs and� massacres were carried out by the three

�� branches of the Croatian forces: 1) the units of the "Ustashi" movement, 2) the� so‑called

�� "Home Defense", and 3) the regular army. Local Croat officials often participated in the shooting

�� of prominent Serbian citizens belonging to their locality. Most of these officials were men who

�� had been put in by Dr. Machek himself when he set up his autonomous government in Croatia.

�� They went over, with almost no resignations, and continued their functions under Pavelich.

�� The object of the massacres was deliberate and political: it was to make Croatia a

�� "Greater Croatia" by annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina, so that, if the victor of the war

�� (WW2) allow the population to vote on their choice of country, there should be no

�� Serbs alive to cast their ballots.

�� It should be mentioned that Bosnia & Herzegovina has always been considered by

�� historians, geographers, and ethnologists to be a Serbian province, since it is

�� predominantly Serbian. The population statistics of Bosnia compiled by the

� ��Austro‑Hungarian Empire in 1914 (prior to the outbreak of World War I), when Bosnia

�� was an Austro‑Hungarian province, may be considered to be impartial, since

�� Austro‑Hungary never liked or was likely to favor the Serbian people.

�� Austro‑Hungarian Statistics on the population of Bosnia ‑ 1914

�� Orthodox (Serbs)�� 930,000

�� Muslem�� 620,000

�� Catholic (two thirds Croats, and one third Serbs)�� 420,000

�� Together:�� 1,970,000

�� It means that over one million Serbs lived in Bosnia at that time.

�� The history of the massacres is as follows: Between April 12 and 15 and on the night of

�� May 31, 1941, mass arrests were made in cities of Zagreb, Sarajevo (Bosnia's capital),

�� Mostar, Bana‑Luka, Travnik, Dubrovnik, Livno, and others. The first large massacres

�� occurred the night of May 31, when groups of prominent Serbian citizens were

�� "arrested" and taken to the outskirts of the towns and shot. These spring killings in

�� Croatia proper are generally referred to as the Glina massacres.

�� It should be mentioned that the Italian and German soldiers in Croatia and Bosnia tried

�� many times to intervene to save the defenseless Serbs and often succeeded. Thus

�� about 350 Serbians imprisoned by the Croats in Mostar, Livno, Trebinye, and

�� Dubrovnik were released by the Italian troops. There were many other instances where

�� the horrors revolted both Italian and German soldiers.

�� Atrocities. Eyewitnesses.

�� The great massacres of 1941 did not take place until June 24 to 28. They continued

�� intermittently until November 1942, by which time practically all the 1,250,000 Serbs

�� had been either exterminated or driven out. On June 22 a new order was issued stating

�� "anyone using force against citizens of the country would be severely punished." This

�� notice, designed to put the Serbs off the guard, was broadcast on the radio, read in

�� churches, and published in newspapers. But simultaneously Pavelich sent a coded

�� telegram to his Ustasha criminals ordering them to proceed with the massacres. What

�� happened can best be told by some of the eyewitnesses:

�� 1. Walter Gorlitz (German military official) in his book "Der Zweite Weltkrieg 1939‑1945",

�� Stuttgart, 1952. Band 11. on page 125 writes the following:

�� "...Unfortunately, one of the first measures undertaken by the Catholic Ustashi regime was a

�� terrible military venture of extermination of the Serbian Greek‑Orthodox parts of population

�� which has come under the Croatian rule. The horrors that had taken place at that time had

�� thrown the young country into a predestined civil war..."

�� 2. Karlheinz Deschner� (German writer, Catholic and a professor of philosophy) in his

�� book "Mit Gott und den Faschisten", Stuttgart, October 1965 and "Abermalsrahen der

�� Hahn", Stuttgart, December 1962, writes the following:

�� "...The Serbs have become slaughterhouse material. In accordance with this doctrine the

�� Ustashi started actions against Serbs, the people of the highest cultural level in the Balkans

�� but not of the Catholic faith..."

�� "...Catholics were urged from the church pulpits to persecute Orthodox Serbs and especially

�� arduous in this were the Franciscans whose monasteries have for a long time served as

�� meeting grounds for the Ustashi..."

�� "...Furthermore it is understood that from the total of two million Orthodox population, almost

�� 600,000 was killed..."

�� 3. In 1953 Italian military authorities have made available to the press several documents

�� from their archives, pertaining to the Ustashi crimes perpetrated over the Serbian people.

�� Thus the daily "Il Tempo" of September 10, 1953, published the following excerpts from

�� the report of the Commander of the Italian "Sasari" division:

�� "Population in some places was completely exterminated, after having been tortured and

�� tormented...

�� The horrors that the Ustashi have committed over the Serbian small girls is beyond all words.

�� There are hundreds of photographs confirming these deeds because those of them who have

�� survived the torture: bayonetted hits, pulling of tongues and teeth, nails and breast tips (all this

�� having been done after they were raped), were taken in by our officers and transported to Italian

�� hospitals where these documents and facts were gathered."

�� 4. Curzio Malaparte, one of the most famous Italian writers who attained world fame,

�� wrote the book "Kaputt", Roma‑Milano 1948 (Decima edizione). The book was published

�� in New York, London, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Belgrade... In his book

�� Malaparte describes his visit to Ante Pavelic, the leader of Ustasha:

�� "...While they were talking I noticed a cane basket on the left hand side of the Pavelic's desk.

�� The cover was slightly raised and I could see that the basket was full of sea fruit. At least, that

�� is what I thought it was. It looked like oysters but extracted from the shells, like the ones that

�� you sometimes can see served on large plates at Fortnumm and Mason, in Piccadilly in

�� London. Casertano looked at me and gave me a sign with his eyes:

�� 'How would you like to have some oyster soup?'

�� 'Are they Dalmatian oysters?' I asked Pavelic.

�� Ante Pavelic took the lid off the basket and showed me the sea fruit, that sticky and jelly‑like

�� mass, and then said, laughing with his frank and tired laughter: 'This is the gift from my faithful

�� Ustashi, twenty kilos of human eyes.'"

�� 5. Source: Letter written by Privislav Grizogono, a Croat and a Roman‑Catholic,

�� ex‑member of the Yugoslav Diplomatic Corps, addressed to Dr. Aloisius Stepinac,

�� Roman‑Catholic Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia, February 8, 1942. Published in

�� translation by the �American Srbobran�, a Yugoslav paper in Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A.,

�� February 24, 1943:

�� "These atrocities do not amount to killings alone. They aim at extermination of

�� everything Serbian, including women, children, and aged men, and in terribly wild

�� tortures of the victims. These innocent Serbs were stuck on poles alive, and fires were

�� built on their bare chests. Literally, they were roasted alive, burned to death in their

�� homes and churches. Boiling water was poured on live victims before mutilation; their

�� flesh was salted. Eyes were dug out of live victims, ears amputated, noses and tongues

�� lobbed off. The beards and mustaches of priests, together with their skin, were ripped

�� off rudely by knives. They were tied to trucks and dragged behind them. The arms and

�� legs of the victims were broken and their heads were spiked"

�� "They were thrown into the deep cisterns and caves, then literally bombed to pieces.

�� Crowbars smashed their heads. Their children were thrown into fire, scalding water,

�� and fed to the fired lime furnaces. Other children were parted by their legs; their heads

�� crushed against walls and their spines dashed against rocks. These and many other

�� methods of torture were employed against the Serbs‑tortures which normal people

�� cannot conceive. Thousands of Serbian bodies floated down the Sava, Drava, and

�� Danube rivers and their tributaries. Many of these bodies bore tags: "Direction ‑

�� Belgrade. To Serbian King Peter". In one boat on the Sava river there was a pile of

�� children's heads, with a woman's head (presumably the mother of the children) labeled:

�� "Meat for John's Market ‑ in Belgrade" (meaning meat for the Serbian market)"

�� "Then, in Bosnia, a huge pile of roasted heads was found. Utensils full of Serbian blood

�� were also discovered; this was the hot blood of their murdered brothers that other

�� Serbs were forced to drink.

�� Countless women, girls, and children were raped ‑ mothers before daughters and

�� daughters before mothers ‑ while many women, girls, and little female children were

�� ushered off to Ustashi garrisons to be used as prostitutes. Rapes were committed even

�� before the altars of the Serbian Orthodox Churches. About 3,000 Serbs were murdered

�� in the Serbian Orthodox Church at Glina, and the massacre of Serbs before the altar at

�� Kladusha Orthodox Church with sledgehammers is something never mentioned in

�� history....

�� There are detailed and official reports about these unheard‑of crimes. They are so

�� terrible they have shocked even the Germans and Italians. Many pictures were taken of

�� these massacres and torture orgies. The German soldiers and officers claim the Croats

�� did these same things in Germany during the Thirty‑Year War and that, since then,

�� there is a proverb in Germany: �God save us from cholera, hunger, and the Croats�.

�� Even the Germans from Srem (Syrmia, a province in Northern Serbia) hate us and act

�� friendly toward the Serbs. The Italians have photographed a vessel holding 31.5

�� kilograms of Serbian eyes, and one Croat decorated with a wreath of Serbian eyes

�� came to Dubrovnik with two wreaths of Serbian tongues.

�� Though we Croats shall never be able to erase this shamefulness which we brought

�� upon ourselves with these crimes, we can at least lessen our responsibility before the

�� world and our consciences if we raise our voices in protest against all these crimes.

�� This is the last hour for us to do so. After all the great crimes in history, punishments

�� follow! What will happen to us Croats if the impression is formed that we participated in

�� all these crimes to the finish?!"

��

�� At Zemun, Feb. 8, 1942

�� There are passages in this document relating to Croatian atrocities which are

�� unprintable.

�� Source: A legal affidavit, signed and sworn to by Hilmia Herberovic, a Mohammedan

�� resident of Croatia, in regard to the Glina massacres:

�� "On the day of the bombing I was in Belgrade, and I left on the same day to report to

�� my command in Susak in accordance with my mobilisation orders.... I cannot remember

�� the date, but I think it must have been the 17th or 18th of April 1941. The unit

�� commander on that date called all soldiers together and informed us that the war was

�� over and everyone should proceed home.... I arrived home in Bosanski Novi (a small

�� town in Bosnia) about the 24th of April, 1941.... Then I received an order from the

�� military command in Petrina to report there.... At the beginning of June my unit was

�� ordered to Glina to establish order and peace in that district and to collect all the arms

�� and ammunition from the people....

�� On our arrival in Glina we searched the houses of that town and then went to the

�� neighboring villages. When the searching was over, the Ustashis arrived from Zagreb

�� and Petrina and we were then ordered to round up from the villages all men from twenty

�� to forty five years of age.... At the beginning we arrested only the men. We collected

�� them from the villages and shut them in the Court gaol. There they remained several

�� days, until the gaols were filled, and they were then put to death. The killing was done

�� in several ways. Some were locked up in the Orthodox Church in Glina, which could

�� contain 1,000 men. Then the unit officer chose about fifteen men to do the killing. They

�� were then sent into the church with knives.

�� During the butchering, sentries were placed before the church. This was necessary

�� because some of the Orthodox Serbs climbed up the bell tower and jumped into the

�� porch. All these were killed by the sentries in the porch. I was three times chosen to do

�� the killing. Each time we were accompanied by some officers, Josip Dobric and� Miho

�� Cvitkovich, and some Croatian Ustashi officers.

�� When we entered the church the officers remained at the door and watched while we

�� did the killing. The killing usually began at about ten o'clock in the evening and lasted

�� until two o'clock in the morning, and the cries were continued until the last Serb was

�� killed. These killings in the church took place seven‑eight times, and I took part in them

�� three times. Every time we were so bespattered with blood that our uniforms could not

�� be cleaned. We therefore changed them in the magazine and washed them later. The

�� church was washed after every killing, after the corpses were taken away in motor

�� trucks. Usually they were thrown into the river Glina. Sometimes they were buried.

�� Some we struck in the heart and some in the neck. Some we struck haphazard. During

�� the killings there were no lights in the church, except that some soldiers were specially

�� appointed to light our way with electric torches. It happened on several occasions that

�� some Serb rushed us with his fists or kicked us in the stomach, but he was butchered

�� immediately. There was always much noise during the killing. The Serbs used to shout

�� proudly "LONG LIVE FATHERLAND SERBIA!", "LONG LIVE SERBIAN PEOPLE!",

�� "DOWN WITH PAVELICH!", "DOWN WITH THE USTASHIS!", "DOWN WITH CROATIA!"

�� etc.

�� My unit's task was to round up the Serbs in Glina and in the Glina district, but orders

�� were also given that all Serbs in the districts of Topusko and Vrgin. Most as well as

�� Glina should be rounded up and killed. I do not know exactly how many Serbs were

�� killed, but I have heard it said that about 120 thousand Serbs from the above

�� mentioned districts have been killed, including children and old people.

�� I have nothing more to add. These notes have been read out to me, and all my

�� statements have been correctly written down. I can read and write.

�� HILMIA HERBEROVIC

�� Vatican and Ustashi Croatia

�� "...The revival of a policy of forcible conversion assumes an even more portentous significance

�� when one remembers that it occurred with the tacit approval of the Vatican. Had the Vatican

� ��disapproved not a single priest could have taken part in the massacres or forcible conversions

�� of Orthodox Serbs. A village priest can act only with the approval of minor Hierarchs who

�� themselves cannot move without the permission of their Bishop, while the Bishop, in his turn,

�� must act according to the instructions of his Archbishop; the Archbishop only on those of the

�� Primate; the Primate on the direct instructions of the Vatican. The Vatican is the personal

�� dominion of the Pope. The Pope being the central pivot of the vast Hierarchical machinery, it

�� follows that the ultimate responsibility for all members of the clergy‑or, to be more precise, for

�� the collective action of any given national Hierarchy ‑ rests with him. This cannot be otherwise.

�� For policies of great import must be submitted to him before their promotion by all Hierarchies

�� the world over, the Pope being their sole authority. If the responsibility for the monstrous

�� persecutions of Orthodox Serbs rests with the head of the National Hierarchy‑i.e. Stepinac‑it

�� has automatically to rest also with the Head of the Universal Church, without whose consent

�� the Catholic Hierarchy would not have dared to act‑‑i.e. with Pius XII.

��

�� Pius Xll could not plead ignorance of what was going on in Croatia by bringing forward the

�� excuse of the obstacles of war. Communication between Rome and Croatia was as easy and

�� as free in peace‑time... Political and religious Ustashi leaders came and went between Rome

�� and Zagreb... Moreover, the Pope knew what was happening in Croatia, not only through the

�� Hierarchical administrative machinery, which kept him up to date on all Croatian events, but

�� also through other reliable sources. They were:

�� (a) The Papal Legate. Pius XII, it should never be forgotten, had a personal

�� representative in Croatia, whose task was to implement Vatican policy and

�� coordinate it with that of Pavelich, as well as reporting on religious and

�� political matters to the Pope himself. The Papal Legate to Croatia was

�� Mgr. Marcone, who openly blessed the Ustashi publicly gave the Fascist

�� salute, and encouraged Catholics (e.g. when he went to Mostar) to be

�� "faithful to the Holy See, which had helped that same people for centuries

�� against Eastern barbarism"‑that is say, against the Orthodox Church and

�� the Serbs. Thus, the Pope's official representative openly instigated

�� religious persecution, as well as praying for victory "under the leadership of

�� the Head of the State Pavelic," against the Yugoslav National Liberation

�� Army in 1944 ‑ 5.

�� (b) Cardinal Tiseran, head of the Holy Congregation of Eastern Churches.

�� This congregation's specific task was to deal with Eastern Churches.

�� Cardinal Tiseran received detailed reports of every forcible conversion and

�� massacre in Croatia. Between April and June, 19 over 100,000 Orthodox

�� Serbs were massacred; yet Cardinal Tiseran on July 17, 1941, had the

�� audacity to declare that Archbishop Stepinac would now do a great work

�� for the development of Catholicism in "the Independent State of

�� Croatia...where there are such great hopes for the conversion of those who

�� are not of the true faith."

�� (c) Ante Pavelich, who, by his representative to the Vatican, through whom

�� Pius XII sent "special blessing to the Leader (Pavelic)," forwarded regular

�� reports, at times straight from the Minister of Religions, about the "rapid"

�� progress of the Catholicization of the New Croatia.

�� (d) Last but not least, Archbishop Stepinac himself, who in person visited

�� Pius XII twice, and who supplied His Holiness with figures of the forcible

�� conversions. In an official document, dated as late as May 8, 1944, His

�� Eminence Archbishop Stepinac, head of the Catholic Hierarchy, in fact,

�� informed the Holy Father that to date "244,000 Orthodox Serbs" had been

�� "converted to the Church of God."

�� HOLY SEE AND PAVELICH'S CROATIA

�� It was not without reason that the official Catholic press gave the public to understand that the

�� Holy See had recognized the new Croatia de facto. Another pontifical measure soon added

�� significance to the event of Pavelic's ceremonious welcome at the Vatican, usually given only

�� for the head of a government. The Pope on 13 June (Pavelic's name day, "Antunovo")

�� designated His Grace, Giuseppe Ramiro Marcone, a Benedictine of the Monte Vergine

�� congregation and a member of the Roman Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, to represent him

�� at the Croatian episcopacy. But in the matter of attributions His Grace, Marcone, singularly

�� surpassed those of an "apostolic visitor," that being his official title. So, according to the

�� protocol of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Zagreb, he was classified, with his secretary,

�� Masucci, another Benedictine, under the heading: "Delegation of the Holy See," and in official

�� ceremonies he was placed ahead of the representatives of the Axis, being considered the Dean

�� of the diplomatic corps. Furthermore, His Grace, Marcone, in his correspondence with the

�� Ustashi government, called himself "Sancti Sedis Legatus" or "Elegatus," but never "apostolic

�� visitor."

��

�� The Croat hierarchy, as well as the press, referred to Ramiro Marcone as the Pope's Legate,

�� giving him the title of "His Excellency," and never specifically mentioned him as the Pope's

�� observer or envoy to the Croat Catholic Episcopacy. During the ordaining of the new Bishop,

�� Janko Simrak in Krizevci, on August 18, 1942, "the Pope's legate to the Independent State of

�� Croatia, Mgr. Ramiro Marcone was present with his secretary. In reporting on the Pontifical

�� Requiem which was held in Zagreb after the death of Maglione, Secretary of the Vatican, on

�� August 24, 1944, the "Catholic List" wrote that Mgr. Ramiro Marcone, the delegate of the Holy

�� See in the Independent State of Croatia,27 was also present. Another article published in the

�� Christmas issue of the "Katolicki List" mentions again that "the Honorabe Fra. Ramiro

�� Marcone, was the delegate of the Holy See in Zagreb." In an article on apologetics, which

�� appeared in the Katolicki List in connection with the "celebration of the name's day of the

�� honorable legate," it is clearly seen that Mgr. Ramiro Marcone was the "legate of the Holy See

�� in the Independent State of Croatia.

�� "Catholic List" wrote how the clero‑Ustashi group looked upon Fra. Marcone, and said the

�� following in that regard: "This was more than was needed for establishing the recognition de

�� facto since as the name indicated, it was not conferred by international law, or by any explicit

�� declaration, but was deducted from an ensemble of facts, which in themselves were amply

�� significant. His Grace, Stepinac, understood this perfectly when he noted in his journal on

�� August 3rd, the day the Pope's representative reached Zagreb: 'By this act, the Holy See has

�� recognized via facti the Independent State of Croatia.'

�� "Catholic List" also wrote the following regarding Ramiro Marcone's position and mission: "We,

�� the Croats, see in Fra. Marcone a high diplomatic representative of the Pope, our Holy

�� Father.... May the Lord bless his sacrificing work, may it bear the richest fruits to the benefit of

�� the Holy Church and the State of Croatia."

�� It is natural that such a political introduction given to Fra. Marcone was bound to affect the

�� Catholic masses in the Fascist Independent State of Croatia, as well as the Ustashi

�� government. It must have reflected on the religious feelings and political orientation of the

�� Catholic masses. By interpreting Fra. Marcone's role in such a manner, a conscious and

�� intentional influence acted on the Catholic masses invoking in them the desire to preserve the

�� Independent State of Croatia.

�� In exchange, Pavelic sent two unofficial representatives to the Vatican, Nikola Rusinovic, and

�� then Erwin Lobkowicz, the Pope's secret chamberlain. Although they had no titles, they were

�� diplomatic agents, and implicitly recognized as such, since His Grace Canali, the great

�� manipulator of finances at St. Peter's provided them with Vatican ration tickets, "carta

�� annonaria", to which all accredited diplomats of the Holy See were entitled. It can thus be

�� observed that there were close ties between the Vatican and Satellite Croatia, where Giuseppe

�� Ramiro Marcone remained until the debacle, transmitting instructions from Rome to the

�� Croatian clergy and episcopacy, principally concerning the conversions of the Orthodox Serbs,

�� and often traveling from one region to another, where the battle was raging between the

�� resistants and the Ustashi. The "apostolic visitor" can be seen in the Pavelich's intimate family

�� circle, looking most paternal and benevolent.� The cordiality of these public as well as private

�� relationships remained untouched by the assassination of the Serbian Orthodox priests, which

�� continued to multiply.

�� On May 21st, the same day that the Croat delegation returned triumphant from Rome, the

�� Orthodox Serbian Bishop of Co. Plaski, Sava Trlaic, was arrested by the Ustashi officer Fra.

�� Josip Tomlienovic, and his palace pillaged and demolished. He was taken in a truck to Ogulin

�� with three other priests, Revs. Jasa Stepanov, Milan Raicevic, and Bogolub Gakovic, and also

�� thirteen Serbian notables. All of them were shut up in a stable, beaten and tortured, and then

�� taken away to city� of Gospic. From there, about Aug. 15th, they were sent away by convoy,

�� with two thousand Serbs, to the Island of Pag where general "liquidation" took place.

��

�� Even in Zagreb, where His Grace Stepinac and the "visitor" Marcone resided, the Serbian

�� Orthodox Bishop Dositey, was beaten and tortured to such an extent that he became insane.

�� There were four Serbian Orthodox Bishops with those from Bosnia‑Herzegovina, to which

�� should be added approximately 171 priests and religious followers, who, like the first Christians,

�� met the fate of martyrs upon the ruins of their profaned churches. Others were deported to

�� Serbia. Only those of the mountainous regions, in Krayina (Serbian part of Croatia), controlled

�� by the Serbian paramilitaries, were able to escape.

��

�� The Serbian Orthodox population, thus bereft of the traditional leaders, became an easier prey

�� for the converters, as well as for the assassins. Massive massacres took place after their death

�� and torture in the bishoprics of the two martyrs, Sava and Dositey, which served as a prelude to

�� equally massive conversions. Croatian Catholic clergy was many times behind Ustashi

�� violence. For example, it happened that Fra. Viktor Gutic was none other than the Ustashi

�� prefect who had ordered the "liquidation" of many Serbian Orthodox Bishops, like Bishop Platon

�� of Bania Luka, with all the refinements of cruelty which have, heretofore, been described.

��

�� Serbian Orthodox Bishops ‑ Martyrs are:

�� 1) Zagreb metropolitan Dositey Vasic (born in 1877, ordained in 1899,

�� bishop of Nis in 1913). Interned in Bulgaria during World War I. Elected

� ��first Zagreb metropotitan in 1932, and enthroned in 1933. As the oldest

�� member of the Holy Synod, he was in charge of Church affairs during the

�� illness of Patriarch Varnava, and until the election of the new patriarch.

�� During World War II, he was severely humiliated and maltreated in Zagreb,

�� and then expelled to Belgrade. In poor health due to his sufferings in

�� the Independent State of Croatia, he died on January 13, 1945 in the

�� Belgrade Monastery of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, and was buried

�� there.

�� 2) The good white‑haired old man, metropolitan of Bosnia and Sarajevo,

�� Petar Zimonjic (born 1866, ordained in 1895, metropolitan of Zahumlie and

�� Herzegovina in 1903, and of Bosnia in 1920), one of the most eminent

�� Serbian dignitaries, remained with his flock in 1941. He was arrested on

�� May 12. There are many testimonies of his heroic stand when he faced the

�� criminals. He was innocently killed that same year. Several versions exist

�� about his martyrdom in the Independent State of Croatia. The precise

�� place of his death is not known.

�� 3) The bishop of Karlovac Sava Trlajic (born in 1884, ordained in 1909,

�� bishop in 1934, bishop of Karlovac since 1938); early in the war he refused

�� the offer made by the Italian occupiers to move to Belgrade, and remained

�� with his Orthodox people ‑ underwent many humiliations in the

�� Independent State of Croatia, and finally ended his life as a martyr. The

�� place of his grave is still unknown.

�� 4) The bishop of Banja Luka Platon Jovanovic (born in 1874, bishop in

�� 1936, and bishop of Banja Luka in 1939) died a martyr's death in the

�� Independent State of Croatia, on May 5, 1941, and was thrown into the

�� Vrbania river. He was later buried in the Orthodox cemetery of Bania Luka.

�� CROATIAN CARDINAL STEPINAC WAS PAVELICH'S HEAD MILITARY

�� CHAPLAIN

�� In the guise of a reply, or rather a challenge, to those who everywhere implored him to

�� stop the scandalous aid which the Catholic clergy lent to Pavelic's blood‑thirsty regime,

�� the Vatican made a decision: they named "His Grace" Stepinac head military chaplain

�� of the Croatian army. It is true that this nomination was made "sine titulo". On the other

�� hand, the first prelate of Croatia was not obliged to exercise, effectively and personally,

�� his new functions.

�� "His Grace" Stepinac announced his promotion to the Ordinariats by such letters as the

�� following, addressed to the Ordinariat of the Archbishopric of Sarajevo (No. 22/BK/1942

�� on January 20, 1942):

�� "I have the honor of informing the honorable Ordinariat that have been made Head

�� Military Chaplain 'sine titulo' for the Croatian Ustashe army. I have designated as my

�� substitutes the Rev. Stiepo Vuchetich, military priest of the Croatian Armed Forces, and

�� Rev. Vilim Cecelia, superior military priest at the Ministry of the Croatian Armed Forces,

�� and I have given them jurisdiction with the necessary authority endorsed by the Holy

�� See. You will eventually be given the names of the military chaplains in the territory of

�� your Ordinariat by the office of the military vicariate at the Ministry of the Croatian Armed

�� forces."

�� There is one savory detail connected with this affair. Vilim Cecelia, replacing Stepinac as

�� leading chaplain, with the grade of a Lt. Colonel, was. at the same time Pavelic's

�� confessor.

�� As soon as the new promotion of the Archbishop of Zagreb was made known,

�� approximately 150 priests applied for voluntary service as chaplains in the criminal

�� Ustashe army, and even "His Grace" Stepinac's own secretary, Stiepan (Stephen)

�� Lackovich (now in Los Angeles), was sworn in to one of the units. The official paper,

�� "Ustasa", reported in its 47th issue of November 22, 1942, as it did in previous issues,

�� some of the salient acts of these bellicose ecclesiastics and were decorated by Pavelic.

�� Stepinac, from time to time, honored the leave‑taking of the legionnaires for the front by

�� his presence. He was accompanied by His Grace Ramiro Marcone, the Vatican's

�� "apostolic visitor". As can be seen, this prelate had a great conception of his functions

�� and duties as military chaplain, even "sine titulo." Pavelic had every reason to be

�� satisfied, and he proclaimed far and wide: "I am convinced that posterity will be grateful

�� to you Roman Catholic Croatian priests for having inculcated our first soldiers of the

�� Independent State of Croatia with a wholesome spirit, a high morality and respect for

�� God, as well as with fearlessness and courage in facing the enemy both within and

�� without." ("Nova Hrvatska" ‑ "New Croatia", Nov. 26, 1941.)

�� Stepinac not only showed his warlike attitude when he was with the military Ustashi in

�� the barracks, but also when he was with the intellectuals taking charge of the

�� mobilization of the Croats for the cause of the Ustashi Croatian state, where he helped

�� to encourage and boost their drooping morale. It was, above all, among the members of

�� the Catholic organization, "Domagoj," that he was the most active.

�� "His Holiness" Pius XII remained, as always, cordially paternal toward Pavelic's

�� collaborators: "The Ustashi youth of the crusades, numbering 206, all dressed up in

�� Ustashi uniforms, had a private audience with the Pope on February 6, 1942, in one of

�� the most sacred halls of the Vatican. The reporter wrote that 'the most touching moment

�� was when the youthful Ustashi begged the Pope to bless their "Poglavnik" ("supreme

�� head"), the Independent State of Croatia, and the Croatian people. Each member

�� received a medal as a souvenir.' ("Katolicki Tjednik" ‑ "Catholic Weekly", Feb. 15, 1942).

��

�� "Nearly half of the 22 concentration camps in the Ustashi Independent State of Croatia,

�� during WWII were headed by Croatian Roman Catholic clergy..."

��

�� USTASHA MOVEMENT WAS PRO‑JEWISH

��

�� Contrary to the communist and Zionist stories Ustashe movement was, basically,

�� formed and led by the Jews and Croatian Jew‑lovers. I had mentioned some of them but I

�� didn't mention probably one of the most known Ustashi leaders and cutthroats,

�� Viekoslav Maximilian 'Max' Luburich, who was pure‑blooded Jew. Ante Pavelic's

�� godfather and deputy, Andria Artukovich, was also married to Jewess. Enough said.

�� There are no proofs that there was any organised action of Ustashi cutthroat army

� ��against Jewish population in Croatia. Moreover, in the WW2 many Jews escaped from

�� Serbia to Croatia after nationalist government, led by general Milan Nedic, came to

�� power in Serbia.

��

�� USTASHA MOVEMENT FROM 1966 to 1986 ‑ LIST OF

�� CROATIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS

�� The most important terrorist attacks organised by Ustashi (from 1962 ‑ 1984) were:

�� 1962:� Attack on Yugoslav consulate in Bad Goldberg, West Germany. Serb Momcilo

�� Popovic killed .

�� 1963:� Yugoslav citizen Andjelka Vuletina (Serb) was killed by Ustashi terrorists .

�� 1965:� Andria Klaric, Serb, Yugoslav consul in Munich wounded by an Ustashi assassin

�� .

�� 1966: Yugoslav consul in Stutgart, Serb, Sava Milovanovic killed.

�� A Yugoslav Stipe Medvedovic killed in Frankfurt.

�� 1968:� Ustashi blew a bomb in cinema theater "October 20th" in Belgrade .

�� One person killed, 85 wounded .

�� 1969:� Leader of Yugoslav military corps mission in West Berlin, Anton Kolendic, and

�� one member of the mission wounded by an Ustashi assassin .

�� 1970: Yugoslav (Serb) Niko Mijaljevic killed in Frankfurt .

�� 1971: Terrorist attack on Yugoslav consulate in Geteborg. Three Yugoslav hostage were

�� held.

�� Yugoslav ambassador u Stocholm, Vladimir Rolovic (Serb), died from gun shot

�� wounds by an Ustashi assassin. One administrator of the Embassy critically wounded.

�� 1972: A group of 19 armed Ustashi terrorist entered Yugoslavia. Thirteen Yugoslavs died

�� and 19 were wounded in clashes with these terrorists.

�� A bomb exploded in express train from Dortmund to Athens. One person was

�� killed, eight wounded.

�� Three Ustashi terrorists attempted to kill regional judge from Revensburg, related

�� to the trial of five terrorists.

�� Yugoslav (Serb) Bozo Marinac was killed in Solingen.

�� A Swedish airline SAS airplane was hijacked on a domestic flight. Hijackers

�� demanded larger sum of money and release of ambassador Rolovic's assassin. Their

�� demands were met.

�� A bomb exploded in a Yugoslav Airline (JAT) plane flying from Kopenhagen to

�� Zagreb. Twenty six people died.

�� 1975: Yugoslav vice consul in Lion, France, Mladen Djokovic (Serb), was critically

�� wounded by an Ustashi terrorist.

�� A bomb exploded in a JAT office in Shtutgart, as well as in other offices of

�� Yugoslav companies in Western Europe.

�� 1976: Four Ustashi terrorists hijacked an American TWA airplane. One American police

�� officer was killed, and two wounded.

�� A bomb exploded in front of the garage of Yugoslav General Consulate in Stutgart.

�� Yugoslav consul in Frankfurt, Edvin Zdovc, was killed.

�� A bomb exploded in front of Yugoslav Embassy in Washington, D.C. Two persons

�� wounded .

�� A bomb exploded in Yugoslav General Consulate in Melburn, Australia. Six‑ teen

�� Australian citizens were wounded.

�� An assassination attempt on Yugoslav Vice Consul Vladimir Topic (Serb) in

�� Duseldorf.

�� 1977: Radomir Medic (Serb) as United Nation mission in New York critically wounded in

�� and assassination attempt.

�� 1978: Two Yugoslav immigrants Ante Cikoja nad Krizan Brkic were killed in New York

�� City and Los Angeles, respectively. Other two Yugoslav immigrants critically wounded in

�� an attack in New York City.

�� Yugoslav Radimir Gazija was killed in Constanca .

�� 1979: Yugoslav Salih Mesinovic was killed in Frankfurt 1981.

�� A bomb exploded in front of Yugoslav Cultural Informative Center in Stutgart .

�� A Ustashi terrorist group "Croatian National Resistance" sentenced in New York

�� for a murder, blackmail and treat against Serb political immigrants.

�� A group of Ustashi terrorists were arrested in Eden, Australia. They were ready to

�� leave for Yugoslavia and execute terrorist attacks.

�� In Switzerland and West Germany, eighteen Ustashi terrorists were arrested .

�� They were found with large quantities of explosive and weapons .

�� 1983: A court in New York sentenced seven members of "Croatian National Resistance"

�� to 20 to 40 year term for various terrorist attacks.

��

�� From 1991 to now: New Independent State of Croatia

��

�� The third genocide attempt against the Serbs was took place from 1991 ‑ 1995 within the

�� borders of the internationally recognized Republic of Croatia under the leadership of late

�� Franjo Tudjman. The present day Croatian State continues the State personality of the

�� (Ustashi) Independent State of Croatia, as was said unequivocally by Franjo Tudjman at

�� the first congress of his party, Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ). "The Independent

�� State of Croatia was an expression of the historical aspirations of the Croatian people for

�� its own independent State and the recognition of international factors. Accordingly, the

�� Independent State of Croatia did not represent a mere of the Axis powers, but was a

�� consequence of certain historical circumstance."

�� Who was Franjo Tudjman?

�� In the shortest lines: Doctor Franjo Tudjman was founder of the HDZ (Croatian

�� Democratic Community) party and was the first president of the new Independent State

�� of Croatia. 50 years ago he was Tito's (Josip "TITO" Broz� was a Jewish communist

�� dictator in the former Yugoslavia. Another Croatian Jew.)� communist general but in 1990

�� he became the virulent Croatian nationalist. He was invited and has participated in the

�� solemn opening of Jewish memorial museum in New York City.

��

�� Serbs in the Croatian death‑mill... for the third time

��

�� The year of 1991. Once again Croats (this time led by F. Tudjman) wish to break away

�� from Yugoslavia and once again they are supported by International Jewry and

�� Freemasonry (EU/UN/USA). Unfortunately, they don't want just to break away from

�� Yugoslavia and form their own independent state... They want also to purge all Serbs

�� from their (Serbian) lands and make Croatia Serb‑free. On the other hand, Serbs [under

�� that circumstances] want to append their ancient territories to Serbian state. They are

�� loyal and wish to live with their brethren in one, common state... The war broke

�� out... Serbs are in the Croatian death‑mill ‑ for the third time.

��

�� * * * * *� * * * * *� * * * * *

��

�� On two nights between October 16 to 18 1991, 24 innocent Serbs were slain and burned

�� in the place called Perusic, near town of Gospic.

�� The crimes committed in Gospic

�� By Dr. Zoran Stankovic, pathologist

�� From October 16 to 18, soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms and masks on their faces

�� were abducting civilians, mostly Serbs, in Gospic and its surrounding communities, and

�� taking them to unknown destinations. Later on, the members of the JNA (Yugoslav

�� People's Army) and the Serbian Territorial Defence [unit from the village of Siroka Kula],

�� found 24 mostly charred corpses at a place called Kukin Do. Some corpses were

�� recognized as those of people taken away from Gospic in the above mentioned period.

�� There were 15 men and 9 women, and 11 corpse s could not be indentified nor was it

�� possible to detect injuries which had caused their death. All of the identified persons

�� were Serbs from Gospic, who had disappeared between October 16 to 18, 1991.

�� Bullet wounds, lashes caused by the blade of mechanical instruments, piercing wounds

�� caused by the point and blade of mechanical instruments and inward fractures of the

�� skull caused by the blunt side of mechanical implements were some of the injuries iden

�� tified. In the case of 18 corpses, it was not possible to establish reliably the exact

�� number and type of injuries, because some of their parts were missing, while the

�� corpses were charred...

�� List of identified victims:

�� 1.U‑S‑2: Branko Stulic, 54 years old, District Court Judge, Gospic.

�� The victim had been hit by at least six bullets and there was a wound on his neck

�� which had been inflicted by the blade of a mechanical instrument.

�� 2.U‑S‑5: Stanko Smiljanic, 54 years old, jurist from Gospic.

�� The victim had been hit by at least two bullets.

�� 3.U‑S‑7: Mira Kalanj, an economist from Gospic, mother of two sons.

�� The victim was found to have an inward fracture of the occipital bone and

�� fragmented (small and large pieces) parietal bone and base of skull caused by

�� the blunt side of a mechanical instrument.��

�� 4.U‑S‑11: Dane Bulj, 55 years old, office worker from Gospic

�� the victim had been hit by at least two bullets. On the right shoulder, there was a

�� piercing wound inflicted by the point and blade of a mechanical instrument.

�� 5.U‑S‑12: Duro Kalanj, 52 years old, Deputy Public Prosecutor, Gospic

�� The victim had been hit by at least nine bullets. It was not possible to establish

�� the exact number and type of injuries because the soft tissue of the both rumps

�� and left thigh was missing due to the activity of rodents and the body was in the

�� advanced stage of decomposition, frozen and mostly charred.

�� 6.U‑S‑13: Milan Pantelic, employee of the Gospic Hydrometeorological Bureau

�� The victim had been hit by at list one bullet. On the head, there were two cuts

�� with inward skull frectures on the right side of the forehead and right side of the

�� occipital bode. There were cuts on on his back.

�� 7.U‑S‑15: Milos Orlovic, 49 years old, from Gospic.

�� The back of his head had been smashed in with the blunt side of a mechanical

�� instrument.

�� 8.U‑S‑16: Radovan Barac, senior postal technician from Gospic

�� The victim had been hit by five bullets. Signs of exposure to flame were found on

�� the head, neck and front side of both thighs.

�� 9.U‑S‑18 Ljubica Trifunovic, pensioner from Gospic

�� The victim had been hit by three bullets. A piercing wound inflicted with the point

�� and a blade of a mechanical instrument was found in the occipital region of the

�� head. The inner side of the right upper arm was without soft tissue as the result of

�� expo sure of the corpse to reodents. The body [as well as all of the other

�� corpses] was in an advanced stage of decomposition, frozen and charred on the

�� neck, chest and both hands.

�� 10.U‑S‑19: Petar Lazic, 42 years old, employee of Industrogradnja, Zagreb

�� the victim had been hit by four bullets.

�� 11.U‑S‑20: Borka Vranes, pensioner from Gospic, WWII partisan veteran.

�� She had been hit by five bullets fired from a gun. Her body was almost completely

�� carbonized.

�� 12.U‑S‑22: Dusanka Vranes, senior nurse from Gospic

�� the victim had been hit by at least three bullets. A wound which had been inflicted

�� with the blade of a mechanical instrument was found on the right side of the face.

�� On right shoulder, a piercing wound which had been inflicted by a point of a

�� mechanical instrument was also found.

�� 13.U‑S‑23: Nikola Gajic, 58 years old, pensioner from Gospic

�� the victim had been hit by at least one bullet. A cut overlaying inward fractures of

�� the bones, which had been inflicted with the blade of a mechanical instrument,

�� was found on the right side of his face.

�� The statement of Milica Smiljanic, wife of the slain Stanko Smilanic

�� "...They came to get my husband at midnight on 16 October. They barged into the

�� house armed to the teeth; they were wearing camouflage uniforms and green caps, with

�� holes for eyes, pulled over their faces. They found us hiding in the cellar and then they

�� started shooting at the ceiling and shouting:"Get up, you bandits!" I recognized one of

�� them by his voice. It was Irfan Mataija, a local. They demanded from us to sign a

�� statement which stated that the Serbs in Croatia were not endangered. We refused to do

�� so, because it wasn't true. My husband and brother‑in‑law were then ordered to get

�� dressed. They tied them up and shoved them onto a truck. I was escorted at a gun point

�� to the house of Radovan Barac, where they demanded that I ask him to come out.

�� Radovan's mother came out instead. She refused to call her son. They took them both

�� away. I was visited on the same night by Luka Sulentic, who was one of the first who

�� had been picked up by the Ustashe; he was released later once it was established that

�� he was a Croat. Sulentic told me that scores of Serbs had been arrested and taken by

�� trucks to Smiljan. I spent three months searching for my husband and brother‑in‑law,

�� Milan. Several times I addressed in person Zelko Bolf, the chief of police in Gospic. I

�� begged him to find out what had happened to Stanko and Milan. He promissed to make

�� inquiries and let me know, which he never did. I managed to escape from Gospic thanks

� ��to a Croatian police officer who helped me get an ausweis (a pass), so that I was able to

�� reach Zagreb, via Karlobag, Sen, Rieka, Delnice and Karlovac. From Zagreb, I went to

�� Doboi, and from there to Serbia.

�� Stanko had no [personal] enemies. He never engaged in politics; he didn't belong to any

�� political party. He simply wasn't interested in such things. Now I now that his only sin

�� was his Serbian descent..."

�� List of missing Serbs, according to the testimony of Milica Smilanic:

�� Stanko Smiljanic, jurist

�� Milan Smiljanic, his brother

�� Rajko Barac

�� Danica barac, his mother

�� Radmila Stanic, teacher

�� Zaljko Mrkic, policeman

�� Boro Maric

�� Ankica Maric, his wife

�� Ljubica Trifunovic, pensioner

�� Duro Kalanj, deputy public prosecutor

�� Mira Kalanj, economist, his wife

�� Borka Vranes, pensioner

�� Nada Vranes

�� Mica Vranes, Nada's husband

�� Nedeljko Igric, clerk

�� Nikola Stojanovic, pensioner

�� Nikola Niscevic, guard in prison

�� Marija Niscevic, his wife

�� Branko Kuzmanovic, pensioner

�� Milan Pantelic, clerk

�� Radmila Diklic, manager of the Turist Information Bureau in Gospic

�� Boja Potkonjak

�� Mira Potkonjak, her daughter

�� Branko Draganjic, employee

�� Simo Kljajic, journalist

�� Gojko HInic, Ministry of Internal Affairs employee

�� Dusanka Vranes, head of Physical therapy department

�� Industry of Death ‑ Death Squads go on a rampage through Kraina*

�� F.T. Feral Tribune, 10/16/95, Split, Croatia

�� It turns out that the cruel crime in Varivode was only a link in a bloody chain: seven

�� elderly persons from the village of Gospic, hamlet of Borak, located four kilometers west

�� from Devrsak, were murdered in the early afternoon hours on 8/27/95. Sava, Marija,

�� Grozdana, Vasilj, Kosa, Dusan and Milan Borak were, on average, 70 years old.

�� There are no living creatures left in the hamlet of Borak. Only a strong, unpleasant

�� stench of the decomposing bodies of dead animals and inside houses old traces serve

�� as a "reminder" of a drama: blood stains on kitchen tiles, bullet holes in the walls,

�� opened portion from the humanitarian assistance package on the table, two pairs of

�� glasses, rotten tomatoes, Slobodna Dalmacija paper from August 26...

�� "On the day that happened I was taking food to the village", stated for Feral one of the

�� indirect witnesses, who because of fear wanted to remain anonymous.�� "I went to

�� finish some business in the neighboring village and upon my return, about half an hour

�� later, I found that the elderly inhabitants of the village had been massacred. They had

�� been shot through their heads. They lay on the thresholds of their houses, sometimes

�� 2‑3 of them together; body of one of the elderly women was in a chair... I was terrified

�� and frightened... On my way out of the village I passed an all‑terrain vehicle in which

�� there were people in camouflage uniforms..."

�� Another witness said that the bodies of the victims had been transported to Knin in two

�� police helicopters. Allegedly, minister [of internal affairs] Ivan Jarnjak and his deputy

�� Josko Moric appeared on the spot. However, it is still not known how far the Croatian

�� police investigation of these crimes has gone and whether the police has continued the

�� investigation after all. The victims of the crime in Gosic received at least a bit of Christian

�� respect: they were buried at the Knin cemetery; crosses with numbers 543 to 550 were

�� placed on their graves.

�� Feral's reporter was, on Friday, present when the corpse of 84‑year‑old Dusan Saric was

�� found in Kakanj, a village 4 kilometers from Varivode. His corpse had been floating in a

�� well located next to his house. Dusan Saric was se en alive for the last time when the

�� activists from the International Red Cross delivered regular humanitarian assistance on

�� 9/18/95.

�� Kraina stinks of crimes committed by Croatian death squads. In the village of Oton, near

�� Knin, R.K. (initials arbitrary) is still in a state of shock. He described a tragedy to the

�� Feral's reporter: Croatian soldiers demanded that he slaughter a calf for them. While he

�� was doing that, he heard shots from an automatic rifle from a nearby meadow. They

�� killed his mother. He buried her at the place of the crime. She was born in 1906.

�� "I was sitting in the kitchen and my son was asleep. Then a four of them barged into the

�� house. They asked where our identification cards and "domovnice" [a document which

�� proves Croatian citizenship] were. My son got up and they started to search through the

�� house; they were pulling out drawers and smashing things. Then one of them picked up

�� a gun, put the barrel on my son's neck and took him away." This is the testimony of an

�� elderly woman from the village of Zrmana‑Vrelo. Her 50‑year‑old son was killed in a

�� nearby forest on 9/29/95 at 5 p.m.; four bullets were fired at his chest. The body was in

�� the forest for two nights until the investigators arrived. "The locals covered the body and

�� guarded it lest someone took it away; they also wanted to protect it from animals."

�� Commander of the former Sector South, Alain Forand has stated that the civilian UN

�� police had found 128 corpses of the Serb civilians who had been killed after the end of

�� war operations in Kraina; they gave all the available data to Croatian authorities but

�� haven't received any information from the authorities regarding the investigations.

�� Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO), after checking, branded as false "inaccurate reports

�� that the Croatian authorities have arrested certain citizens of the Republic of Croatia

�� because of the committed crimes."

�� In Croatia, the emphasis this Fall is on the new democratic elections.

�� [*Kraina, Krajina ‑ Serbian western province today, unfortunately, witihin the borders of

�� Croatia.]

�� Soil soaked with the blood

�� Above are just a few examples of Croatian crimes against Serbs, comitted during the

�� civil war (from 1991 to 1995) in the 'former Yugoslavia'. Over 450.000 Serbs have been

�� banished, forced to leave their ancient territories, their homes and hearths. Serbian army

�� was victorious on the battlefield. Serbs won the war but the Croats get their

�� Independent, Serb‑free, state thanks to the treacherous diplomatic policy of the Serbian

�� socialist regime and thanks to International Jewry.

�� However, we will never forget. There's no surrender. Lika, Banija, Kordun, Slavonia, West

�� Srem, Herzegovina etc. are the lands soaked with the Serbian blood... the blood of our

�� brethren and forefathers. The places like Jasenovac (English spelling ‑ Yasenovaz) are

�� the eternal Serbian shrines and sanctities. Holy Serbian scaffolds and martyrdoms. OUR

�� FATHERLAND IS WHERE THE GRAVES OF OUR MARTYRS ARE AND WHERE THE

�� SOIL IS SOAKED WITHE BLOOD OF OUR KIN. The graves and ghosts of known and

�� unknown martyrs are weeping for revenge. We can hear

�� them... ��One day we will set our

�� Western provinces free again and will avenge the suffering and deaths of our brothers

�� and sisters. That is our promise and our oath! In the name of Father, Son and the Holy

�� Spirit. Amen.�

�� Dedication.

�� Author dedicates this little book to glorious duke Momcilo Djujic and all the heroes who

�� fought and died for Faith and Fatherland as well as martyrs who have been murdered by

�� Croatian criminals, including heroic duke Pavle Djurisic and Milorad Mojic (commander

�� of the Serbian Volunteer Corps.). Rest in peace brothers and sisters, the White Eagle

�� will take his vengeance. Author and publisher.��