FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO PLACE THE
DESTRUCTION OF YUGOSLAVIA ON THE SERBS

 

In 1991 before the war broke out in Croatia a dozen Serbian churches were blown up...the Church of St. Spiridon in Peterinja, Church of St. George in Marinci, St Geor...ge in Gornji, among them...at the same time 8 businesses in Zagreb were blown up but what most Croats wish to gloss over, or worse, sweep under the nearest rug. The media simply ignored the fact that Ante Markovic, the Croatian Prime Minister of Yugoslavia was the man who ordered Serbian troops to attack Croatia. Markovic then fled to Croatia knowing full well he had opened Pandora's Box on Balkan violence. This is the same media who promoted Serb aggression on their own territory and made claimed of Serb domination when the Serbs ranked in 4th place of all government and ambassadorships in former Yugoslavia in spite of the fact that the Serbs were the majority of the population. Markovic was a mere example of ethnic representation as Bosnian Muslims, Slovenes, Montenegrians, Macedonians, and Croatians held high ranking positions in Yugoslavia. Albanians who represented less than 10% of the population also held major positions. The "domination" lie was a ruse used by the media and the various ethnic minorities who wanted their own country. How for instance can 650,000 Montenegrins have their own country with the costs of running a government without massive foreign debt?

In February, 1991, anti-Serb text appeared in local papers and anti-Serb statements began to be heard every day on local radio in towns of Western Slavonia. During 1991 a number of posters appeared and lists of "unwanted" ethnic Serbs, alleged "enemies of Croatia." The largest list of "enemies" was published by the Croatians in Duravar it contained the names of 35 Serbian settlements and a list of over 6,521 names. Liquidations began within weeks of those lists being posted.

The number in front of the name is an example of where they appeared on that poster list. (1) Ilija Sasis, ((20 Veljko Vukelic, (4) Nikola Dopudja, (9) Radovan Buldalic, (24) Milan Stulic, (36) Milan Dejanovic, (56) Dragoljub Ljubcic, (83) Bosko Momcilovic, (110) Milenko Stefanovic, (212) Jovan Grkinic, (329 Vlado Stepanovic...over 6,480 additional names appeared on this list...93% were killed within a year of the list being posted.

October 29, 1991, Croatian radio gave the Serbs "48 hours to leave their homes with the barest of necessities." The Croats called it a "Depopulation Plan." A hideous term considering Serbs were the first to be accused of "Ethnic Cleansing." What followed on November 2nd and November 3rd (All Saint's Day and All Souls Day) was the mass destruction of over 250 villages in which 58,000 Serbs were "cleansed", 10,000 Serbian homes went up in smoke and in the end 96 Serbian churches were destroyed. A few of the villages razed include: Bastajski Brdjani, Batinjska Rijeka, Donje Cjepidlake, Dobra Duca, Kip, Mila Klisa, Pakrani Potocanim Removac...

This level of civilian destruction followed by the total ethnic cleansing of 230,000 Serbs from the Krajina in 1995 is Genocide by every definition but not a single Croat has been brought to justice for these war crimes.

Why my passion on this issue? Because I am a double victim of Croatian Genocide. In 1942 in the village of Vojnic, Croatia where my father was born, 99 Serbs were called to their church to be converted to Catholicism. The church was locked from the outside and burned to the ground...17 of those victims were my relatives. In 1995 when 230,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed from Croatia the last 5 relatives of my name were too old and too sick to flee...The Red Cross notified me a month later they were found with their throats slit. The images below show the massive ethnic cleansing of 230,000 Serbs from Croatia in 1995 and the ruins of the church where my relatives were murdered that President Franjo Tudjman bulldozed in 1995 to erase this hideous massacre from Croatian history.