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HDZ is not Croatian religion, Sanader is not Croatian God
The conspiracy against Croatia, Europe?
HDZ’s
forgery or not?
– Bilaver and Bush in Croatia’s electoral
campaign
ICTY & VUKOVAR: Licence to Murder, Licence to Betray
Former Yugoslavian capital Belgrade moved to Zagreb and The Hague CICAK’S “rather large” heroism made public ARCHIVE
Croatia & Bosnia -Herzegovina in
War of Words (propaganda on Operation Storm)
VoC's Column (archive)
Dubrovnik after Yugoslav Army /Serbian Destruction (Photo VoC/I.A.)
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VoiceofCroatia.net BACK TO THE PAST
“I am hungry, I am looking for job, I am doing everything”
History in Communism
(“Gladan sam. Trazim posao. Radim sve.”)
27 April 2008
The Canadian media/readership response to the appearance of Gen Andrew Leslie against Croatia (Storm) at the ICTY (The Hague) was rather negative - and pretty fair. It transpired that he should not have gone there in Canadian military uniform and tarnish it with a false testimony and his suspicious medal issue.
In contrast, Croatia imposed the ignorance and silence on this theme - a couple of journalists excepted. Even the “mainstream” media blogs in Croatia prefer to avoid the issue, given that almost every media outlet falls under governmental control, while the government pledged to send to Afghanistan more Croatian troops – against whom Leslie “testified” in The Hague. The silence is preferred also because the government has robustly practiced an “unconditional cooperation” with The Hague’s tribunal for a long time, while it is regularly shown that the ICTY’s indictments against Croatian generals – General Ante Gotovina in particular – are annoyingly absurd, and entirely forged.
So, what Croatian top leaders and media were busy about over these critical days for Croatia, its partnerships and international cooperation?
Croatian readers can follow only Pukanic case. The owner of Nacional weekly is accused by his spouse and her supporters that he used the state infrastructure so to put her in a mental hospital when she tried to speak out about his putting her on, and supplying with cocaine, forcing her to admit other people in their bedroom, and about his corruption and infidelities. Croatian public, human right groups, government ministries and political parties are divided – taking the side either of his spouse who proved positive for cocaine, or her husband who has been at the core of assisting, through his domestic and international media networks, the government activities in Croatia for years. The rest would not interfere with Pukanic’s “private life.” And that’s all that the Croatian public should make up their mind about.
And yes, there is a new priority for Croatians, after the “unconditional cooperation” with the Hague and Croatia’s entry into the NATO and EU. “The most important is that the people appease their hunger,” announced Croatian prime minister.
Of course, the NATO missions take a lot of energy and resources…
It recalls the communist Yugoslavia “spirit.” My generation remembers the communist history book for the primary school in the 1970s and 1980s showing the picture of the working class, so dear to the communists, that is, the man from the early communist Yugoslavia standing sadly and holding a poster with his both hands, saying: “I am hungry. I am looking for job. I am doing everything.” Croatian government is trying to re-introduce it, although under their title, "It's time for the future."
Perhaps, not the food is a problem. Croatia was occasionally registering the surplus as soon as it got rid of the communist Yugoslavia, even in the wartime 1991-1995 years. But the national economic base is being depleted by insatiable politicians and their allies.
It has to do with Croatian international and domestic politics, especially at The Hague, unless Croatian politicians have the same masters as the communist Tito did. Like in the past, the people are impoverished and should only worry about the hunger; it’s all still important that remains.
The economy in Croatia has crumbled in consequence of continued treason and sudden materialism, in spite of so much readiness for sacrifice by the Croatian people in the defense war.
We can conclude the “reconciliation” in Croatia which was frequently promoted by both Croatian leading politicians and their supporters has failed. Croatians were not supposed to “divide” around The Hague issue, but to unite around the treason, while Croatians can freely divide now over their support for either the mighty journalist close to the government or his wife, and worry only about not being hungry….
An atheist would say it more elegantly than the head of the Croatian government: The need for food is primary… Or, more poetically: Food is the primary need for hawk and human.
Croatian people is entitled to the most primitive needs only. As for Croatia’s elites, they can afford cocaine even. And yes, there’s a lot of most primitive pornography in all Croatian media and campaigns. But it is all their entirely “private” thing, even when made public. They remain in power and choose who will replace them so to assure their “continuity.”
In Canada, however, we still discuss Leslie’s misadventure in The Hague. We can even say, the Canadian government and Leslie should not have believed their sources in Croatia and The Hague, and shouldn’t have sent the latter over there to “testify”… And we’ll say it, even if we should be hungry for it.
In Croatia, where the government and media decide what is important, the people are becoming both hungry and forbidden to voice their opinion on this issue.
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VoiceofCroatia.net
"OR-OR"
Ivana Arapovic
29 Mar 2008
4 persons killed under tragic and unclear circumstances in Zagorje, Croatia: Ret. Gen Korade’s war-time friend, the man who stabbed Korade prior to the war and Croatia's independence, and an elderly woman with her grandson; 300-500 members of special police are looking for the general Korade (Ret.) for he “might know” something about these crimes. So far, no other indication about his involvement has been provided, nor the connection between these crimes shown. The neighbor countries are offering to “help” hunt the man who was not found at his residence. He did enjoy a disputable reputation after the war and proved to be a handy media “tool” to denigrate all Croatian volunteers. The media fires against all that wore Croatian military uniform in the war at the high ranks, Croatian volunteers are being stigmatized as never before.
The crime that happened and the way it was executed by firearms and knives, in an atrocious way, was actually the everyday manus militaris of the Yugoslav army and Serbian paramilitary units (Chetniks) against Croatian population in 1991-1995 but it wasn’t proper to write/speak about it ever after, for we would be “spreading the hatred”, “the past had to be forgotten”, “we should turn to the future”, the peace with the Serbs is a must. But when it’s to denigrate Croatian volunteers, every incident is translated onto entire Croatian volunteer population.
It cannot be serious. If the connection of the Homeland war and all that goes wrong in Croatia may be established so irresponsibly (even if the former Croatian war volunteer decided to take “justice” into his own hands in a private encounter), then, one can also speculate about the link between the general media campaign against ALL Croatian war-time generals (who were on the battlefield) and the arrival of Mr Bush to Croatia.
But let’s not speculate like Croatian media. Let’s turn to the “bright side” and to the NATO. Mr Bush says he will not install permanent military bases in Croatia and media translates it into “There will be no military basis in Croatia” (so to calm the population who also wants to preserve the most beautiful coast and islands in Croatia as well as their own military basis under Croatian control). So there will be the military bases, yes or no? Permanent or not? [2]
The government refuses to hold a referendum about this issue. The NATO entry does not have an impact on Croatian sovereignty, the prime minister explains.
Hence, although there will be no “PERMANENT” bases, the government and Mr Bush are promising to Croatians the investment influx and prosperity. Croatian economy will flourish according to them. But, all studies in defense economics, empirical and all other research, show elsewhere in the world that the positive spillovers of military activity on domestic economy are occurring only in mid and long run, that is, if there’s a CONTINUED/permanent development/investment in the defense sector and, I would add, a good coordination between civil and military sector. However, such reasoning is pushed into the cheapest political polemics (and please don’t make us open the books, Mr Bush doesn’t like to read, it would be depressing), while the media and government brain-washing in Croatia won’t accept any rational. Our government and diplomacy know what is best for Croatia better than most Croatians and western experts…. They defy all science and practice.
Croatians should get the access to the agreements Croatia is signing all these years. But it’s not possible nowadays. There was still some transparency in 1998 and we could ask some questions about the NATO, but not now.
I recall asking a simple question on Croatian responsibilities and duties vs. those of foreign parties to which I have never received a response. Precisely, please, I have been wondering all these years what the “or” means in the articles stipulating the terms of Croatian international cooperation: “the stipulations of this agreement remain in vigor until the end of operation OR if the parties agree otherwise.” (Croatia MOD -NATO meeting of 1 Jun 1998) [3]
It would be too much to ask which operation, when it ends, who the parties are, and whose interests they represent. Who benefits from the investments. Croatian responsibilities and concessions are a must, and truly endless, all the rest is “or”, “or.” This is a trademark of Croatian diplomacy (esp. in Dayton agreements etc.). Croatia is the country of wonders, indeed. A strange experiment.
So far, the “or-or” in Croatian politics means: “Croatian war veterans or NATO/Mr Bush”, “Croatia or EU.” No Croatia.
Who wouldn’t become wary of all this? Croatia still has not moved forward a single step since 1998. Backwards only. No transparency whatsoever. No objective facts. No truth. Just the lynch against Croatia for all occasions.
If we recall that Yugoslav general Kadijevic, the Serbian war criminal, was offering the services to the NATO for the Balkans until just recently, we might get an idea what is going on. Or - we might never find out, to be sure.
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[1] Uniforma s mrljom - generali u ratu s pravosuđem Slobodna Dalmacija, 28.03.2008.
[2] George Bush: Neće biti [STALNIH] vojnih baza na Jadranu, Jutarnji list, 27.03.2008
[3] “Odredbe ovog sporazuma ostaju na snazi do završetka operacije ILI ako se stranke drukčije dogovore”, clanak 22 Sporazuma, NATO dokumenti. NATO-RH, 1. lipnja 1998. _____________________________
Ps. HDZ's Frank Bilaver might finally get a snap...
Voiceofcroatia.net
Gentlemen, message to The Hague, please?
Ivana Arapovic
02 Mar 2008
During his official visit to the US in 2006, Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader tempted Mr. Bush to come to Croatia for its splendid coastline – and we won’t argue about the attraction of this proposal even when it’s made to the president of the largest military force in the world, or especially not then. Croatia is beautiful.
There’s an entire media hassle of the announced security preparations that are already wheeling heavily onto Croatia and its fast-stirring deficit. Thus Croatia should be all agitated to receive Mr Bush so to forget the men who made it possible, in 1991-1995, by permanently defeating the Greater Serbia threat.
No peaceful separation of Montenegro or Kosovo from Serbia would ever be possible either without Serbian capital defeat served by the Croatian Armed forces during the Storm 1995.
Hence, shouldn’t Croatia be preparing to receive its heroes back? If they’re not good enough to be in Croatia, how Mr Bush could possibly be. He’s involved in quite controversial wars, unlike Croatia who only defended its soil. Why is Croatia tried still?
Croatians supported many times Mr Bush and his political party, but he remained deaf par rapport of ridiculous accusations by the ICTY. His government had even put the price on the head of the most innocent western-trained Croatian soldiers against whom the ICTY pointed – based on the hardship of creating the accusations by the Serbian terrorists and criminals. Mr Bush has one last chance to correct it during his visit to Croatia.
But it’s quite strange that this information on Mr Bush's visit was leaked by the “Western diplomatic sources” only to learn a little later that the former Croatian diplomat Ivan Grdesic expects Serbia to receive the message… What’s the message? Perhaps, “Serbia, if you don’t change, we’ll go on with Croatia?” Mr Grdesic is the same “Croatian” diplomat who argued over the past years in Washington D.C. that Serbia should take the lead in the region as Croatia was "strategically irrelevant." It cost him some protests from the Croatian American Association, and from many others.
It’s possible that the traitor government of Croatia wants to send some message to Croatia too. Should the trial against Croatian generals build on the current of events preceding it, little good is to be expected. The government of Croatia might be only using Mr Bush to scare off the opposition that might upraise against the government when the unjust trials commence, and justify the huge security expenses in the wake of the trial against the Storm.
All together, the timing of The Hague’s trial against Croatia and the Storm heroes (March 2008) and the fashion of announcing Mr Bush’s visit to Croatia (April 2008) leaves little space for optimism, unless the message is sent first and foremost to The Hague. Croatia wants its heroes back to Croatia, first and foremost. Otherwise, yet another paradox in Croatia would be a capital testimony of cheep domestic public relations and betrayal, as usual. Finally, the best message to Serbia – if that’s what the “western diplomatic sources” are honestly aiming at – would be bringing back home the innocent Croatia’s heroes from The Hague - and not only from The Hague. But they cannot even visit Croatia – although they freed Croatia. It would be only just and fair that they welcome foreign visitors in Croatia. _____________________________
Voiceofcroatia.net Love of power has no bounds in post-electoral Croatia
Ivana Arapovic
28 Nov 2007 [HRVATSKI] Croatian elections offered an empathic political landscape with only two parties in arena - HDZ and SDP - and there was no real contest during entire electoral campaign. HDZ scared off the voters by ideological revival in SDP so that the voters were put on general alert against a “greater evil” (SDP) and were invited to vote, in spite of all betrayals, for the lesser evil, HDZ. Apart from some isolated incidents with communist and Ustashe songs in the electoral camps of SDP and HDZ respectively, this “ideological battle” served as a smokescreen that wiped out all right-center parties from Croatian political scene, which lost their voters due to this false alarm. If the ideological battle were real, HDZ’s leader Ivo Sanader would remove Tito’s name from the most beautiful square in Croatia’s capital instead of Budak’s and Francetic’s monuments. On 14 Dec 2005, the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted resolution 1481, entitled “Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes,” but Sanader has never pronounced himself on this issue, not to mention putting it in place in Croatia. On other issues in this supposed ideological conflict, such as Croatian Diaspora’s votes and Catholic education in public schools, HDZ’s leader only washed his hands by saying these themes were “less important” right now so there was no real conflict here either. But it was somehow assumed that HDZ would be inclined to the Diaspora and to the Church (Tudjman’s heritage), that SDP would be against them, so the voters (not only from HDZ’s electoral base but also people that I used to know as rational) started proclaiming HDZ as our Saviour even! There’s little of Catholic spirit in all this, given that no man can be godish to such a point, but it sells well in a post-communist country without challenging this new HDZ’s doctrine! As for real themes and HDZ’s real accomplishments, there was no contest of different views whatsoever. HDZ carefully suppressed all opposition to his foreign policy not only from Croatian media but also from his opposition through the deal stipulating that those issues wouldn’t be a subject of discussion during the elections. While Sanader was entirely centered on, and directed by the “unconditional cooperation” with The Hague’s tribunal throughout his entire mandate and his only visible accomplishments in the field of foreign policy were pleasing everyone but Croatians, and sending Croatian soldiers to The Hague’s prisons and to Afghanistan, he somehow managed to marginalize these controversial and contradictory themes, until they completely disappeared at the peak of the electoral campaign, exactly when the majority of the voters were making up their mind. If we were deprived of the real contest, we get it at the end of the elections, at last! HDZ beats SDP by 10 seats but it runs equal chances as SDP for forming the government with the left-center parties, the only ones that still preserve some influence in Croatia’s political design. President Mesic refuses to give the mandate to either party until they prove that they can form the government. While he’s not in rush to make decision, our God-given Saviors are finally sweating to earn the position. The only coalition partner Sanader was able to secure so far is the representative of the Roma minority of Croatia, who is also favorable to the same-sex marriage legislation. It’s not a big surprise; however, a supposed conservative Sanader should have remembered his “ideological” color that was promising to secure him an ultimate victory over SDP’s liberal ideas. Love of power has no bounds though. There’s even the threat of rallies from HDZ’s ranks against Mesic’s hesitation to proclaim the winner, and SDP’s refusal to concede the victory to HDZ, even though Sanader put quite many limitations to such manifestations of people’s will since he distanced from General Norac, betrayed General Gotovina and other war-time commanders in Croatia’s war for independence. Meanwhile, the news from The Hague is bad. General Gotovina wasn’t approved awaiting his trial in home custody even though it’s been 2 years since he’s in prison with entire Croatia falsely accused. He's the man to whom our candidates should thank for having the opportunity to run electoral campaigns in free Croatia. And this reveals Sanader's accomplishments abroad: He's listened to only when he betrays his country, its heroes and liberation war, while he has built no other credentials or alliances for Croatia on the international scene. On the other hand, the Catholic Church in Croatia is not happy with the “lesser evil” and overall elections: The right-center parties completely disappeared, while there’s no real difference in HDZ’s and SDP’s agenda, and democracy deteriorated. The Church activists are considering the ways of making political parties accountable for their electoral promises to the voters, given their inherent tendency to betray them. While the egos keep escalating, and show what the entire contest is about (power and nothing else), we can only thank God Croatian politicians, Ivo Sanader in particular, are finally fighting hard for something in their life, and that something still doesn’t fall in their hands from heaven. They've never put an effort in fighting for some Croatian cause as fervently as for their positions now. Everything else remains the same anyhow. I’m not Mesic’s fan, God forbid, but he too did something good, for once in his life. Although, no one likes the fact that Croatian elections are in his pity – Croatians deserved at least as much as to see the real face of their prime minister or would-be prime minister, and some contest, at least after the elections. _____________________________
Voiceofcroatia.net UN Lesson Learned on Ivo Sanader: There's no such statesman-traitor in the world...
Ivana Arapovic
17 Oct 2007
[HRVATSKI]
No statesman in the world would have ever sent his country's highest-ranking soldiers to the prison on demand of an international tribunal and then state that he is “pleased that the tribunal appreciates his cooperation…”
No statesman in the world would take pride in the fact that his country “established” an international tribunal which tries its liberation military operations (Storm) for a “joint criminal enterprise” and “war crimes,” and furthermore, state that the “Tribunal’s mandate and mission have been achieved,” that “the peace has been restored and confidence is growing” – and especially not when the peace was achieved by the very operation (Storm) his tribunal put on its trial bench…
No statesman in the world would have ever find in it a “precious lesson,” especially not at the moment when the only lesson learned in that Tribunal is that there is no justice. His tribunal – the ICTY - couldn’t even punish the worst Yugoslav Army and Serbian Chetnik butchers in Vukovar.
If Vukovar – a symbol of Croatian suffering – received such “justice” – what "mercy" can we expect for the winning Operation Storm that ended all such sufferings in both Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and permanently defeated the aggressor?
No statesman in the world would still promise a “full support” for an international tribunal that wronged his country as badly as the ICTY wronged Croatia, and thus block every action by other countries against its injustices by promoting it as a “vehicle for justice and for asserting the values of humanity.” The only “value” his tribunal asserted is the occupation, murder and destruction of Croatia and its people.
Thus, the only concrete “value” that Ivo Sanader’s “vehicle for justice” (ICTY) accomplished” is a false indictment against Croatia and its liberators, General Gotovina in particular, who ended Milosevic’s, Karadžić’s, Mladic’s, and other butchers’ wars. The guilt was individualized only for Serbian war criminals, and for so few of them, while Croatia is on trial for “joint criminal enterprise” of ending their occupation.
No statesman in the world would fail to bring up the issue of false accusations against the brightest and cleanest military operations that ended the horrible war (Storm, of course!), and its most honorable commanders, and even claim that the justice would be “fully served” just by "extraction" of only few Serbian war criminals ("Karadžic and Mladic as well as Goran Hadžic"), and only for “war crimes committed in Vukovar and Eastern Slavonia.”
Such Sanader's "fully served justice" does't serve justice at all.
No statesman in the world would prosecute, or let be prosecuted, its countries highest-ranking officials who defended not only parts of the country but most of the country that was under 4-year occupation by the 3rd or 4th largest military force in Europe (Yugoslav Army and Serbian paramilitary units), even if an international tribunal demands so. The justice would be fully served only when the innocent Croatian liberators, wrongly accused by the ICTY, would be liberated.
Indeed, there’s no such statesman in the world.
But, there’s such "statesman" in Croatia, whose words from his speech at the UN General Assembly I just quoted above. His name is Ivo Sanader. Asking justice after all his praise for the tribunal that he endorsed, once again, upon Croatia, defies all justice. Nothing obliges the ICTY to serve justice for Croatia, given that its prime minister is so full of gratitude to it!
Indeed, there’s no such traitor in the world who would be so “decisive” to save a Tribunal but not his country's innocent, wrongly accused, generals whom he seeks to ruin. Ivo Sanader is indeed the only such statesman in the world. That’s the only lesson learned from his speech before the UN General Assembly, and that there will be no justice soon for Croatia.
Hence, wonder not that Ivo Sanader opened his speech by acknowledging the President of the ICTY, H.E. Judge Fausto Pocar, even though the latter, just a few days before Sanader’s speech, had tried, via an unofficial document, silence every criticism against the ICTY (Vukovar case). But Ivo Sander is “pleased” with him from the outset.
"We spoke about further cooperation between Croatia and the ICTY, but I cannot tell you more about it at this time,” states for the journalists Ivo Sanader at his official vlada.hr website. But he told us everything.
Croatia can be confident that its prime minister has blatantly betrayed it, once more.
If president Mesic let his prime minister go and give this speech instead of him (about which they initially had an argument), Sanader couldn’t have disheartened him.
After all this, what can we expect from the UN's Mr.President, Distinguished Representatives, and excellencies. Nothing. No justice.
_____________________________ Majorca Daily Bulletin December 18, 2005 (Edition 1853)
By Meb Cutlack CELEBRATION over the capture of Croatian General Ante Gotovina should be tempered by the consideration that he was unquestionably a victim of Croatian internal politics. Because of his popularity through ‘Operation Storm' he was considered a ‘threat' to politicians of both parties and particularly a threat to the current President of Croatia, Sepic Mesic. The UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services is examining whether the War Crimes Judge, Carla Del Ponte, ignored evidence of forged documents which showed Gotovina was set up by officials working for Sepic Mesic. The forged documents at issue concern transcripts of a meeting on 31 July 1995 between former Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and senior members of his military leadership, including Gotovina. In the transcript, Tudjman is recorded to have urged his military commanders to “hit the Serbs so hard that they will disappear forever. Shortly after this date Croatian forces under Gotovina's command, assisted by US and UK advisors, launched a massive military operation known as Operation Storm to recover the Croatian province of Krajina. Anticipating this action the local Serb commander in Krajina ordered all his military, and Serb civilians, to leave the province. This resulted in the flight of over 200'000 Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia. Del Ponte, alhtough she knew of the forgeries, argued to the tribunal that the transcript proved Gotovina's primary objective in Operation Storm was to ethnically cleanse the Serb population from Croatia. There is not an iota of proof that Gotavino carried out any of the war crimes he is accused of. To suggest that Gotovina's arrest will solve Croatia's problems about EU entry disregards the real problems the country faces. Lurking just beneath surface of business and economic life throughout the country is an octopus of corruption with its tentacles reaching into government itself. Chop off one arm and the creature grows another, making its insidious way through cement and chemical factories, shipyards, hotels, fish factories and every form of previously state-owned company. It started with privatisation when, to encourage free enterprise after the fall of communism and the collapse of the Yugoslav state, the government sold off huge chunks of its former industries. It is reflected today in the skeletons of these rotting enterprises, deliberately bankrupted and sucked of all life and flesh, which litter the coast and business world of Croatia. The buyers, many ex regime managers and former party bosses, weren't after the businesses - but the real estate to sit on - and they remain today an ugly barricade to genuine investment in Croatia. Gotovina had a reputation of not tolerating corruption and, had he aspired to politics and succeeded, there is little doubt that his first battle would have been against the ugly realty of today's Croation mafia - the octopus! _____________________________ VoC, Dec 2005 BETRAYAL OF THE CENTURY
Who will investigate:
Are the arrest of, and false accusations
against Croatian General Ante Gotovina a joint criminal
enterprise against him put in motion by (1) the corrupt Croatian
government (and especially its diplomacy and HDZ); (2) Belgrade/Serbia
and Savo Strbac in particular); (3) Carla Del Ponte.
_____________________________ Voiceofcroatia.net
Again?
Serbian criminal Savo Strbac would be a “liberator,” HDZ’s PM Ivo Sanader a porno correspondent?
June 13, 2006
Asked by Globus what he thought about Gotovina as warrior, Strbac replied. “I don’t know. I have no opinion about it. If he was in Foreign Legion, as he really was, he was obviously trained to engage in war, and trained to kill. I was recently asked if I had the witnesses who would confirm that Gotovina killed someone. I have none. But he was a commander and the command responsibility…. He either ordered, or didn’t prevent [the crimes], or didn’t punish [those who were responsible for the crimes], that’s his responsibility.” Savo Strbac also said he “believes Gotovina would appear [before the ICTY] – unless he encounters a tragic accident.” [more]
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Canadian army chief grilled at war crimes tribunal, CBC News, April 24, 2008 Se also: Story comments
Ante Gotovina et la bave des crapauds CROATIA UNCENSORED - new book by Dr. Jerry Blaskovic Hilda M. Foley on Marco Polo in FT Brenda Brkusic's film available for purchuse online Crimes de guerre... et + Gotovina : vraie capture ou reddition camouflée ? Hrvatska povijest Ivan Šarić, svećenik, pjesnik i domoljub
L'histoire croate: Mgr Ivan Saric The siege of Siget
With his 2500 brave soldiers, mostly Croats, Nikola Subic Zrinjski was defending the fortress of Sziget in southern Hungary against 90,000 Turks. ... Cardinal Richelieu, the famous French minister at the court of King Luis XIII, wrote the following: A miracle was necessary for the Habsburg Empire to survive. And the miracle happened in Sziget. (more) CROATS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAQueen Katarina
National Post, Sept 8, 2006 Pope Benedict sparked a debate about the place of religious beliefs in Canadian politics Friday, telling Ontario bishops Canada has excluded “God from the public sphere” with laws supporting same-sex marriage and abortion.
The Croats, re-armed and coached by U.S. advisors, counterattacked at the same time as a joint Croatian-Muslim offensive. These actions reclaimed much of the land that the Serbs had taken, forcing Milosevic to the bargaining table at Dayton. The ICTY is Dead, CWA, March 11, 2006
Milosevic once described himself as the "Ayatollah Khomeini of Serbia," assuring his prime minister, Milan Panic, that "the Serbs will follow me no matter what."
Milosevic to Moscow?, CWA, February 17, 2006 GEN GOTOVINA-KNIN 06/08/1995
VIDEO TAPE OF KNIN MEETING REFUTES ALLEGATIONS FROM GOTOVINA INDICTMENT (Hina 7.4.2004.) VIDEO FILE MADE AVAILABLE BY IVICA GRGIC AT LIJEPANASADOMOVINA WEBSITE (CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO FILE) Ex-Croatian General Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes, NYT, 13. 12. 2006
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“IT'S TIME FOR THE FUTURE” (Science fiction in vivo!)
PM Sanader should have organized Mr. Bush's visit in Serbia
Ivana Arapovic
5 Apr 2008
“Serbia, too, is entitled to its place in Europe and the world. It paid the price for its past failed politics and I’m convinced that it will be ready for a new future.”
“I reiterate the message to our neighbors: Don’t give up! Integration of the entire European southeast (region) will continue. It’s time for the future. Our partners are with you,” said Sanader. [1]
Given that PM Sanader brought 2000 HDZ members, his 1000 government officials, and only 1000 other Croatian citizens to greet Mr Bush [2], we must wonder why HDZ did not organize Mr Bush’s visit in Serbia, and not Croatia.
Mr Bush greeted and took a snap with the soldiers who participated in his mission in Afghanistan. [3] Croatian government representatives (or rather Serbian!?) nor Croatian president haven’t, of course, taken a single photo with the veterans who participated in Croatian defense missions during Croatian Homeland war against Serbia. They are of course, mostly, in prisons, from Croatia to The Hague, unless they were killed by the Yugoslav army and Serbs in the 1990s war, or committed suicide because of the Croatian politics towards them ever after the war.
Same as before Mr Bush’s visit, Croatia falls back into Korade discussion following his departure. Tragically and absurdly, as in the rest of story, one policeman died at the end of this strange operation, because the policeman wasn’t timely provided with the first aid. Out of nearly 4000 policemen hunting the man who was gravely affected by PTSD, there was only one assigned to accompany the wounded policeman and he died in the car on his way to the hospital for bleeding out. [4] Therefore, the hunt after a sick retired general (he has lost his arm in the war, and suffered from various diseases, diabetes etc.), served to liberate the pathological hatred against Croatian soldiers on Croatian soil in general, and nothing else. As for pathological lies that came out of this case in all mainstream Croatian media, they are only to be cleared up. A strange way to mark Mr Bush’s visit to Croatia, isn’t it? But it’s “time for the future”!?!?!? Science fiction in vivo!?
_______ [1] Stojimo na pragu NATO-a i EU, nastavio je Sanader, a snaga tog uspjeha potiče Hrvatsku da nastavi podupirati svoje susjede u njihovim naporima. "I Srbija ima pravo na svoje mjesto u Europi i svijetu. Platila je cijenu svoje promašene bivše politike i uvjeren sam da će pokazati da je spremna na novu budućnost." "Ponavljam poruku našim susjedima: Ne posustajte! Uključivanje cijelog europskog jugoistoka u euroatlantske integracije će se nastaviti. Vrijeme je za budućnost. Naši su partneri uz vas", poručio je Sanader. (Jutarnji List, 5.4. 2008.) [2] Sanader organizirao publiku za Busha, Jutarnji list, 5.4.2008.
[3] U 13.35 s Plesa je uzletio Air Force One kojim su George W. Bush, Laura Bush i Condoleezza Rice napustili Hrvatsku. Prije odlaska su se fotografirali s pripadnicima Hrvatske vojske koji su sudjelovali u misiji ISAF-a u Afganistanu. (Jutarnji List, 5.4. 2008.)
[4] Policajac umro zbog lošeg plana akcije?, Sutra, 5.4.2008.) _____________________________ VoiceofCroatia.net Homeland war, Korade, Bush, HDZ, communists… who’s the monster here…
Croatia: Monstrous politics, monstrous results
Ivana Arapovic
3 April 2008
The statement in Croatian media that “tolerance produced a monster” recalls the US anonymous source saying that they created a monster when they trained the Croatian armed forces. Is it really so? In many larger-scale joint US-Croatia operations following the war, the Americans were pulled out by the Croatian forces; a Croatian officer become famous for commenting the American briefings (he participated in the Storm previously): I knew it but I didn’t know it was termed so… Simply, the conventional warfare is different from simple bombing and no one will argue about it.
But, of course, the story here is focused on the retired general Korade and the monstrous terms assigned not only to him but to the entire homeland war population in the wake of welcoming Mr George W. Bush to Croatia. Croatian media is lusting after criminal-depicting words and deeds! (E.g.: Killer General Korade Kills Himself in His Summer House, CroatiaPress, 3 apr, 08, en; The system’s tolerance towards the retired Gen Ivan Korade produced a monster, Index, 3 apr 08, hr)
Obviously, the police operation surrounding the fate of the retired Gen Ivan Korade, who was the case in itself, ever after the war, gave rise to the darkest propaganda ever against all Croatian volunteers. Should 3,600 police members now surrender and attack all other generals and officers from the wartime? It would recall Tito’s visits when Croatian patriots were interned until his sejour was over. But this is worse.
Glancing at Croatian media, should the readers believe Croatia had no heroes at all during its liberation war? That would be insane to say as it is insane what Croatian media writes over the past 8 days, and actually for a very long time. Their general hatred talk is no less devious or psychotic than what happened in the recent Korade case, and will hardly end in a healthy way.
Let’s put some facts straight. Quite a number of the HDZ’s generals and officers (same as politicians) from the wartime Croatia were not up to their titles and ranks at all. Many medals concerning the war period distributed to the politicians, especially over the peacetime period of the past 12 years, have been extremely absurd and insulting.
Let us think logically, if we may: If all of the awarded, either by high military rank or lucrative political position, were truly great, there would be a successful strategy devised so to end the cheep and dangerous play with false accusations, the endless trade of secret documents (often forged!), and the games and blackmails affecting, if not ruining human destines o | |||||
Although
such visits are announced 1-2 weeks prior to taking place (our media
says), Croatian public has the honor of learning the news somewhat early:
For
those who waited with impatience for the message to the “region” that
would mark the preeminent visit of Mr George W Bush to Croatia, they could
hear it from PM Ivo Sanader instead:
