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Merry Christmas to Mr. Slobodan Praljak and to Mr. Dario Kordic with their families
http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/10354/1/Merry-Christmas-to-Mr-Slobodan-Praljak-and-to-Mr-Dario-Kordic-with-their-families.html
By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić
Published on 12/23/2012
 
Christmas of joy and pain.

Croatian Christmas


Croatian Christmas drawn in 1932 by Zdenka Sertić (1899-1986).
Sent by Dr. Mladen Ibler from Kopenhagen. Many thanks!

Croatian Christmas tree in Berlin, near the famous Brandenburg Gate, installed in 2012, a gift of the city of Zagreb.

Christmas message by the Urbani Šokci, Croatian cultural society from Sombor, sent to us by Mrs. Marija Šeremešić. Many thanks!

Merry Christmas! Many thanks to Mr. Ante Glibota for the photo.

Sretan Božić - Merry Christmas from Mrs. Julija Vojković in Croatian Glagolitic Script. Julija, hvala Ti.

Sretan Božić! - Biograd city museum. Many thanks to Mr. Radenko Samardžić, director of the museum.

Christmas greeting card printed in Croatian Glagolitic Script, decorated by a motive
from the glagolitic Church of Sv. Marija na Škrilinah near Beram, Istrian peninsula, from 1474. Eugen, many thanks!

Christmas greeting card with a detail from the Hrvoje Missal, a famous Croatian glagolitic book, written in 1404,
kept in Constantinople, Turkey, in Topkapi Sarayi, a former Library of Turkish sultans.
Sent to us by Društvo prijatelja glagoljice - Scripturae Glagoliticae Amicorum Societas, Zagreb.

Croatian Glagolitic Christams greeting from Filip Cvitić, Zagreb, sent via his Fabula croatica.

Merry Christmas and all the best to Mr. Slobodan Praljak and his family. Portrayed by Mr. Ante Gotovina, Croatian general.

Slobodan Praljak
P. O. Box 13888, 2501 EW The Hague,
The Netherlands



Mr. Franjo Marić sent us a beautiful Christmas greeting from Žepča, a lovely small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mr. Dario Kordić with his Rosary around his neck.

Christmas joy and pain.
Mr. Dario Kordić, here with his wife Venera, was unjustly imprisoned in 2001 in Graz, Austria, sentenced to 25 years.

Dario Kordić, G-416
Justizanstalt Karlau
Herrgottwisgasse 50
A – 8020 Graz


 
...Ali vratimo se istinskim vrijednostima hrvatskog naroda. Vratimo se Dariju Kordiću i sjetimo se kako je upravo on pokazao koliko je iznad onih koji su ga osudili i iznad njihovih slugu. Dariova supruga Venera kaže ("Hrvatski list" od 23. prosinca 2004.):

"Živa je istina da mu je to bilo u istrazi ponuđeno preko odvjetnika: ukoliko optuži Tuđmana i Šuška, doći će do nagodbe sa Sudom! Da je to napravio, bio bi danas vani na slobodi kao i svi drugi optuženici. Zašto nije? Jer je, kako mi kaže, ponosan na te ljude, ponosan što je bio s njima, ponosan što ih je uopće poznavao. Ne može njih optuživati za nešto što u biti nema veze s njima. Dario nije želio nikoga drugoga optužiti jer nije želio izaći iz zatvora na grbači drugih. Rekao mi je da bi to bilo sramotno, da ne bi mogao s tim živjeti, a najbitnije mu je, što je nekoliko puta ponavljao, 'da sljedećih deset godina mogu samog sebe pogledati u zrcalu te da mogu uspravno stajati pred svojom obitelji'."

...

Akademik Josip Pečarić
Izvor www.hkv.hr

 
... But, let us return to the true values of Croatian people. Let us return to Dario Kordić and let us remember how he in person showed how much higher he is above thosed who sentenced him, and their servants. Dario's wife Venera said the following to "Hrvatski list" on 23rd December 2004:

"It is a living truth that the following has been offered to him by means of his attorney: if he accused Tuđman and Šušak, there would have been a deal with the Court! If he did this, he would have been freed, as had been the case with others accused. But why didn't he do this? Because, as he said, he was proud of these people, proud that he was with them, and proud that he knew them. He could not accuse them for something that had nothing to do with them. Dario did not want to accuse anybody, becuse he did not want to be set free on the backs of others. He told me that it would have been shameful, he could not have lived with this. And most essential for him was, and he repeated this several times, that he could view himself in a mirror, and that he could stand upright in front of his family."

...

Academician Josip Pečarić
Source www.hkv.hr



Send greeting cards to Your dearest in Croatian Glagolitic Script.

 
Poštovani prijatelji,

HRVATSKI NAROD UVIJEK PAMTI I ZAHVALJUJE SVIMA
ZASLUŽNIMA ZA SLOBODU DOMOVINE

Pošaljimo čestitke za predstojeće blagdane - BOŽIĆ i NOVU GODINU hrvatskim

braniteljima
koji nose KRIŽ ZA DOMOVINU, danas.

Pozovite svoje prijatelje, rodbinu i poznanike neka se odazovu
i pošalju što više čestitki, i time zajedno pokažimo i njima i svijetu

DA IH NISMO I NEĆEMO ZABORAVITI
i još nešto

Čestitost i poštenje mogu biti ludost u svijetu nepoštenja, ali uvijek ostaju jedna od temeljnih vrjednota koje čovjeka čine čovjekom, i ne pripadaju ovim ili onim vremenima, običajima ili 
naraštajima.

Ima još jedna osobina koju kao da smo prestali cijeniti:
dosljednost, karakternost, čvrstoća karaktera i postojanost u nevoljama.

DARIO KORDIĆ G-416
Justizanstalt  Karlau
Herrgottwisgasse 50
8020 GRAZ
AUSTRIA

SLOBODAN PRALJAK
P. O. Box 13888,
2501 EW The Hague,
THE NEDERLAND

JADRANKO PRLJIĆ
BRUNO STOJIĆ                                      P. O. Box 13888,
MILIVOJ PETKOVIĆ                             2501 EW The Hague,            
VALENTIN ČORIĆ                                THE NEDERLAND
BERISLAV PUŠIĆ

VELJKO MARIĆ
Specijalni odjel za ratne zločine
Ustanička 29
11000 Beograd
Srbija

BRANIMIR GLAVAŠ
Kazneno popravni zavod poluotvorenog tipa - Mostar
Tvrtka Miloša 27
88000 Mostar
BiH

Izvor www.viktimologija.com.hr

Zahvaljujemo profesoru Zvonimiru Šeparoviću na poslanoj poruci.


Croatian Christams carols
Singing Renata Sabljak, cundoctor maestro Alan Bjelinski. Croatian National Theatre.

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