Why is Croatia not in the first wave?

JANE'S FOREIGN REPORT: 

An article in "Jane's Foreign Report" asks, "Why is Croatia not in the first wave of countries due to enter the European Union in 2004?" According to most economic indicators, the article says Croatia "is actually ahead of several of the current candidates for EU accession in 2004." Several EU officials in Brussels "would rather have Croatia in the union than, for example, the ever-problematic Romania." So, the article asks, "What is the problem?"

"The answer is simple," it says: "EU politicking. In the 1990s, while other Central European countries were beginning to gear up for their North Atlantic Treaty Organization and EU membership, Croatia was otherwise engaged. There was the unfinished business of the war, which only ended in 1995. In addition, Croatia's unpopular authoritarian ruler throughout the 1990s, Franjo Tudjman, worried the international community with his expansionist designs on Bosnia. 

After Tudjman's death in 1999, Croatia began "making up for lost time" under the leadership of Ivica Racan. "It is now in the World Trade Organization and in NATO's Partnership for Peace Program.... [Since] 2000, Croatia has also been cooperating, much better than previously under Tudjman, with the international war crimes tribunal at The Hague." 

The article predicts that Racan's coalition will be victorious in general elections next year. And this "should speed up Croatia's return to favor as Southeastern Europe's top hopeful, on course for EU entry." 

(RFE/RL's Dora Slaba contributed to this report.)

http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/11/20112002172654.asp 

Prevlaka,Croatia

U.N. peacekeepers take down the U.N. flag for the last time during the handover ceremony at southern Adriatic peninsula of Prevlaka, near ancient city of Dubrovnik, December 15, 2002. After the ceremony Croatia assumed its sovereignty over Prevlaka for the first time in the past 12 years. REUTERS/Nikola Solic 


AP World Politics
U.N. monitors leave strategic Prevlaka peninsula on Croatia's south 
Sun Dec 15, 8:20 AM ET

By DARKO BANDIC, Associated Press Writer 

PREVLAKA, Croatia - Croatia on Sunday regained control of all of its borders when the United Nations ended its mission on the southern peninsula of Prevlaka. 

The U.N. flag was lowered 10 years after U.N. military observers were deployed on the tiny but strategically important peninsula to secure a de-facto buffer zone between the wartime enemies: Croatia and the smaller Yugoslav republic ofMontenegro. (Op-ed : de-jure, not de-facto, BufferZone? Please, someone should answer this with the letter)

Last week, Croatia and Yugoslavia agreed on the future of Prevlaka, solving one of the key disputes stemming from the 1991 war which erupted when Croatian Serbs, backed by the Yugoslav army, rebelled against Croatia's independence from the former Yugoslavia. 

For years, Yugoslavia disputed Croatia's right to control Prevlaka because it forms the tip of Yugoslavia's commercially and militarily important Boka Kotorska Bay. 

The U.N. recognized Prevlaka as a part of Croatia, but kept its monitors there before the two countries reached an agreement. 

The U.N. Security Council decided in October to disband the mission by Dec. 15, and the two countries subsequently agreed that Prevlaka remain Croatian territory, while Montenegro got control of the waters. 

Due to remaining security concerns, both sides of the border will remain demilitarized. 

The accord was an interim solution pending a comprehensive settlement between the countries also dealing with other issues left unresolved since the war. 


The area is still mined, and police on Sunday prevented some 150 people from nearby villages, some of whom waved Croatian flags, from reaching the peninsula. Several local families lay claim to the land there. 

Should Croatian Diaspora participate on the Board of HRT ? 

International Club of Croatian Immigrants, Returnees and Investors from the Diaspora

Public Announcement

In response to the official letter that was sent to the Government of the
Republic of Croatia, in particular to the Minister of Culture of the
Republic of Croatia, with regard to our request to having a representative
from the Croatian Diaspora participate on the Board of HRT, we received a
negative response from Mr Antun Vujic. From the response signed by Mr Vujic
one can conclude that the Diaspora should not have any influence on the
programming orientation of HRT as if the media house is someone's private
company, not a public entity serving the needs of Croatians at home and
aboard.

The stance of Minister Anton Vujic unfortunately did not surprise us, rather
it just went to prove that no-one is concerned with the Croatian Diaspora or
their needs, nor in uniting Croatians abroad and at home. The Croatian
Diaspora is, obviously, experienced as a foreign body that needs to be
eliminated, of whose interests and requirements its not necessary to pay
attention to, because they do not live in Croatia, but who might have some
influence on the political program or the country's social and business
arena.

However, the nation's memory is a lot longer than those who think they speak
in the name of the people but who, however, work against its real interests.
They are forgetting, as does Mr Vujic, that in the creation of the Croatian
nation, the immeasurable contributions of those which today they coldly
ignore, not wanting, in any way in the field of their activities, tooffer
to finally unite Croatians abroad and at home to become on body, one soul.

The Minister points out how it is not necessarily needed to include two
representatives from the Diaspora on the Board of HRT - and would require a
change in the laws that he does not even want to consider. In an era of
many significant changes to the law, changes and additions to the laws of
HRT would be a painless activity that would have the support of both the
Government and Opposition parties. In short, the proposed changes would be
supported by those who breathe Croatian. We don't know how the department's
minister breathes, however its clear that something is not OK with his
breathing. Likewise, its forgotten that the Diaspora, in defiance of the
UN's embargo, and with that defiance armed the Croatian army and police, and
before that act didn't doubt that it needed to do it. It was not a question
of the legality of, but the moral responsibility to the country from where
they came and to the people they belong to. The Croatian Diaspora does not
deserve that kind of response from a Government official, if not for any
other reason than that she is not Albanian, Italian, Irish nor Israeli
rather she is the Croatian Diaspora. We hope that nationalistic signage is
not what is bothering Mr Vujic, which would humor us even more!!!

The fact is also forgotten that a large number of Croatians in the world
follow the programming of HRT and for that spends not a small sum. And that
is one reason why the Diaspora, the Croatian Diaspora, wants their own
representatives and its own influence on the Board of HRT. We want quality
programs and broadcasts that would be for the Diaspora, we want our voice to
be heard by the numerous Croatian souls across this entire planet who live
their dreams, who work hard to earn their crusts and who dream their dream
to return to their homeland, their hearth.

Its because of them that we ask this for, and not because of anything else.
We hope that we have in this communication in some way directed attention
publicly to the facts and that the Minister will nevertheless rethink and
take appropriate measures to engage representatives of the Croatian Diaspora
on the Board of HRT. Also the number of representatives (and the talk is of
2 representatives from the Diaspora) should not be the balance in any
weighting, but can be regarded as a constructive force inside the Board that
would openly speak for and protect the interests of the Diaspora in the
national media house.

With personal respects,

Club Coordinator
Niko Soljak

Letter to and from Lord Robertson

Dear All, 

I don't know if I should laugh or cry - this is the ridiculously brief
reply I received form NATO. It certainly does not address any of the
issues I raised.
Hilda

Op-ed

All these contacts are valuable. Thank you Hilda.

NB

Dear Ms. Foley,

Thank you for your letter to Lord Robertson with regard to the current
strategic situation. Lord Robertson has asked me to write to you and 
thank you for taking the time to write to him. He wishes to assure you 
that he takes all correspondence most seriously.

Yours sincerely,

Annette Willacy
Personal Assistant 


My letter: 
Lord Robertson
NATO Secretary General
NATO Headquarters
Blvd. Leopold III
1110 Brussels, Belgium
Nov. 10, 2002


Dear Lord Robertson,

It is rather perplexing that NATO wishes Croatia to accept total regional
cooperation with the very nation that has subjugated it and led a brutal
war against it in the past century - Serbia. Why should Croatia be
closely associated with nations with which it shares no common cultural
or historical ties except ones by force and decisions in the last century
- again by the Western Powers? Croatia is a western-oriented, 
central European nation, not Eastern European or Balkan. Certainly NATO 
members Greece and Turkey are in the Balkans and cannot be considered
Western European, yet Croatia, right across from Italy is being
designated as an East European, Balkan country. Why this difference?

Croatia's army is far more experienced and ready for NATO membership than
any of the others lately considered for acceptance. It is simply a lame
excuse to say that Croatia is not ready for NATO because its army
is"politicized". Croatia's army never influenced elections, yet Turkey
has been in NATO in spite of a strong military influence in its nation. 


In turn, NATO is already accepting Yugoslavia/Serbia into some of its
policy groups, SEEGROUP and SEECAP, a country which has far more indicted
war criminals than any other of the recent wars in former 
Yugoslavia and which it still refuses to extradite. One of them, Seselj, 
is still a member of Parliament! In addition its army is still communist
and not under the government's control. That fact was clearly illustrated
recently as repeatedly military equipment and intelligence was
transferred to Iraq. 

Croatian authorities caught the latest shipment in full cooperation with
NATO and other Western intelligence. What has Croatia earned for such
full cooperation? - A push into Serbia's arms with the SAA nonsense and
no foreseeable date of admittance into NATO. In view of the Iraq
scandal, Serbia should be removed from SEEGROUP and SEECAP as it has no
place in determining any NATO policies. 

Furthermore, are you aware that Yugoslavia's president Kostunica has 
made public statements during the recent election campaign that
"Republika Srpska" in Bosnia is only temporarily separated from Serbia
and will eventually be part of Serbia? In that case it would border
Croatia's "Krajina" region that Serb rebels and Yugoslav army occupied
during the war. How long before Serbia tries to take also that region? 
It is obvious that Serbia is not a peace-loving nation but one always
looking for expansion into others' lands by any means. 

It is wrong to plan any "mini-NATO" in Eastern Europe that only divides
nations into East and West again. Croatia should have the right to join
NATO on its own merits, not in some "group setting" that does not
naturally exist. Croatia does not want to be pushed into associations
with countries like Albania and former Yugoslav republics Serbia ,
Montenegro, Bosnia and Macedonia, which have been repeatedly cited as the
worst countries of Eastern Europe in regard to smuggling, especially in
human beings and drugs, lawlessness and other criminality. ( See Jane's
Intelligence Review, Nov. 04 2002). Note that Croatia is not cited in
any such reports. It simply does not belong in such company. There has
been too much injustice and unfairness toward Croatia and hopefully NATO
will recognize this and correct it. 

Very truly yours,

Hilda M. Foley
Public Relations
National Federation of Croatian Americans
13272 Orange Knoll
Santa Ana, Va. 92705 USA

ZAGREB, Croatia - Parliament gave Croat soldiers the green light Thursday to serve in the U.S-led peace mission in Afghanistan.

Although some critics expected stiff opposition, the initiative to send 44 Croat policemen to the war-ravaged country won support from 104 lawmakers in the 151-seat legislature. Twenty-one were opposed, one abstained, and the rest were absent.

The soldiers will depart after New Year's day and serve in a German brigade in the capital Kabul, helping to "develop security structures," said Deputy Minister of Defense Zlatko Gareljic.

The six-month mission will cost the government some 22.5 million kunas (US$3 million).

A member of NATO's Partnership for Peace, Croatia is eager to show that it supports the U.S.-led war on terror and is militarily equipped to deserve NATO membership.

Some smaller nationalist parties opposed the decision, arguing that the country, which emerged from a bloody war for independence in 1995, had a moral obligation not to expose its soldiers to possible further suffering.

President Stipe Mesic, the army's supreme commander, has the right to veto the parliament decision, but he has previously voiced support for the move.

Letters To The Editors

Mr. Ephraim Zuroff
1 Mendele St.
Jerusalem 92147
Israel via fax 011-972-2-5631-276

Dec. 12, 2002

Dear Mr. Zuroff:

In your recent interview in the Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija
several questions were asked to which you replied with statements that
are not accurate. We are certain that you would understand our concern,
as no nation wants to see any misrepresentations carried forth in
people's minds. 

For instance, you claimed that of the 40,000 people attending the
Thompson concert in Split, 1000 were wearing Ustasha hats! That would indeed have been tragic, but fortunately it was totally untrue. Upon our inquiring, the information we received from the people who were present at the concert, there were some ten people wearing such hats. These people should be ashamed, as they only harm Croatia's image and give support to those still influenced by Serb propaganda lies, believing that
Croatia is a fascist state. We cannot allow the whole Croatian nation to be accused. It would be as incorrect as identifying all the Jewish people with the extreme Right in Israel. Actually, one can find more skinheads-neonazis in the Western world that one would find in Croatia.

Please realize, Mr. Zuroff, that the Croatian Tricolor and the
checkerboard coat of arms have been Croatia's symbols for over one thousand years and consequently must be differentiated from the Ustasha symbols. To give you an example, the checkerboard was used as part of the coat of arms of the first Yugoslavia under the Serb king Alexander and was also as part of the second Yugoslavia under Tito. Each government added a different symbol over the checkerboard, a royal crown, a communist red star or a "U" for Ustasha. Governments came and went, but
the checkerboard remained. The Croatian national symbol can be compared to the national symbols of the Jewish people, as for instance the Star of David. 

Your statement that practically half of Croatia's population supported the Ustashas totally belies the facts. In truth, before WWII by far the strongest political party in Croatia was the Peasant Party led by Stjepan Radic who was assassinated by a Serb in the Parliament in Belgrade in 1928 and was then led by Vladko Macek. Even during WWII only 2% of the
total population supported the Ustashas. Furthermore, Croatians were the first to organize the antifascist partisan forces in June 1941, establishing eleven divisions, barely two months after the Ustashe took power. (The Serbs in Serbia, while at least double the population, had only two.) 

Why do you have the impression that Croatians do not know anything about the Holocaust? We know about it very well indeed, because it is constantly thrown into our faces - and only ours, for over fifty years. Croatia never denied what happened in Jasenovac when it came to light after the war, in contrast to the Serbs who do not want to admit the truth about their concentration camps of Sajmiste, Banjica and others, where they killed thousands of Jews during their own Nazi regime under
general Nedic. Serbs have been convincing the world that it was not the Serbs but only the Germans doing the killing. In fact no Church in recent history has been more antisemitic then the Serb Orthodox church. While Croatia erected a memorial in Jasenovac, the Serbs paved over their camps so no one would remember. 

Croatia's President has publicly apologized to the Jewish people and there is an impressive list of Croatians who received the "Righteous Among Nations" recognition, among them also the father of the signer of this letter. This is our contribution about which we never hear anything and the young generations know very little of. Even Croatia's late Cardinal Stepinac, who has openly criticized the Ustashes' concentration
camps and killings and has personally saved hundreds of Jews, is being vilified. Keep in mind that Croatia, in all its thousand-year history, except for the four years as a Nazi puppet regime under Pavelic, has never been known as antisemitic. 

Finally, regarding your commentary about the Sakic trial: Croatia as a newly independent state since 1991 has confronted its past and convicted Sakic within eight years of its existence, most of it war-time, while this did not take place during the 42 years of existence of communist Yugoslavia. 

We hope you will receive this letter as it is intended - a well-meaning critique directed toward some of your false perceptions regarding the complex nature of Croatian-Jewish relations.

Sincerely,

Hilda M. Foley
National Federation of Croatian Americans
13272 Orange Knoll
Santa Ana, CA 92705 USA

Vedran Deletis MD, PhD, New York, N.Y.

PS. We have taken the liberty to send you a few articles that might give you some additional insight.

Nothing much has changed

To: letters@ocregister.com 
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:05:29 -0800
Subject: Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Re: "Low Turnout Again Foils Serbia Election" (Dec 9) 
The media keeps referring to Yugoslavia's president Kostunica as "a
moderate nationalist with pro-democratic views". They are ignoring that
during his campaign speeches he said that the part of Bosnia-Herzegovina
given by the Dayton Agreement to the Bosnian Serb entity is "only a
temporary situation, as it will eventually be part of Serbia" - in other
words, taken away from the sovereign country of Bosnia Herzegovina. Does
that sound like a "moderate nationalist"? Does this national leader sound
like a person committed to peace with his neighbors? "Moderate" - I don't
think so! Nothing much has changed, Serbs will always try to take over
other people's lands.

Sincerely,

Hilda M. Foley
13272 Orange Knoll Dr.
Santa Ana, Ca 92705

Internet Genocide How the New York Jasenovac Research institute (JRI) disseminates hatred of Croatians

Written by Josip Kljakovic
translation by Hilda Foley

On the list of \"Jasenovac victims\" are also names of Ustashas.
Accusation against JRI. The most dangerous fact is that the Institute, established in 1998 by the Jewish and Serbian societies in New York is entering into the school systems of the U.S. and Canada with the help of American authorities, thus creating prejudice against Croatians as a genocidal nation. Therefore I am looking for lawyers in order to file a suit.
From every monument in Dalmatia the names of the dead are \"transferred\" to Jasenovac.
On the Internet pages of the JRI are names of 266 persons who died in refugee camps of El Shatt and in southern Italy, 75 victims of Chetnik crimes in Gata, 63 victims of the German Nazis in the village of Zezevica, 79 victims of Allied bombing of Kastel Sucurac....

History is that which is written. \"That which has occurred and is not written is not history\" (Ivo Andric), but history is that which is written by big nations and powers, which is written in encyclopedias of Israel, USA, Great Britain, Russia... that which is written in The Hague and not that which is we hear parroted daily by our puppets on the Hague strings.

Our Constitution and Mesic declare: Croatia was antifascist in the Second World War and Croatians gave a great contribution to NOR. This is the great truth of a small nation, written in blood, transcribed, carved into monuments, in registry books of the dead, in archives... There, 41.7% of all who perished in Sutjesci in 1943 were Dalmatians. The one who writes, carries the \"U\" or puts Pavelic next to Gotovina is putting a noose around Gotovina and Croatia. Because the \"U\" is equivalent to destroying Croatians and Croatia.
Because the \"center of the world\" New York (MMF, WTC World Bank etc.) writes a different history (and Jerusalem,-Yad Vashem, Brussels and The Hague repeat the same story.)

On the list are 647,250 names

Precisely in New York, the Jewish and Serb societies have established in 1998 the Jasenovac Research Institute (JRI, PO Box 10-0674-Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210) which is committing genocide against the Croatian history because of the Croatian \"U\", proving it by the \"list of Jasenovac victims (Victims list on www.jasenovac.org - open and find your \"Jasenovac victims\"). Since the establishment of this Institute, the monstrous falsifications on this list of victims are pointed against Croatia and Croats, circling around the planet, inflaming national, religious and political hatred against Croatians worldwide. The most dangerous fact is that the Institute, with the help of the New York authorities, is entering with its \"truth\" into the school systems of the USA and Canada with unforeseeable consequences in the creating of prejudice against Croatians as a genocidal nation, and Croatians will most likely be also viewed as \"bad guys\" by the armed forces of the USA and Canada.

I am convinced that Carla Del Ponte is also obsessed with genocidal Croatians. JRI has also recently erected a monument \"Jasenovac\" in Brooklyn on which it states that \"from 1941 to 1945 hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies as well as antifascists of many nationalities were killed in the death camp of Jasenovac which were run by Croatian Ustashas\". The National Federation of Croatian Americans (NFCA) objected and protested to the New York authorities, citing the Holocaust Museum USA in Washington estimates the number of victims being between 56,000 and 97,000. Mr. John Kraljic (NFCA) has correctly stated that the numbers of victims were exaggerated because it is in the interest of Greater
Serbia to blacken Croatia\'s name as a genocidal nation by nature, so it would hide the collaboration of the Serb Chetniks in the Second World War, deny the participation of hundreds of thousands of Croatians on the side of the antifascist coalition and deny the right to independence of Croatia\'s state. (As well as its efforts to admission into the EU and NATO. op - JK)

Falsification and negation of Croatians\' antifascist battle ( as a forerunner to negation of the homeland defensive war and the sovereign and democratic Republic of Croatia as a whole) I am proving by the investigation of the lists of victims on www.jasenovac.org : the list of victims contains altogether 3248
pages, from A to Å˝ (200 names/pages except the last one:
1) A-94; B-282; C-38; -46; -28; D-138; -60; E-20; F-41; G-132; H-63; I-52; J-146; K-295;
L-111; M-358; N-83; O-45; P-255; Q-1; R-182; S-254: Å -117; T-116; U-19; V-176; W-4; Y-1;
Z-56; Å˝-36; (Look , record, find your dead as - victims of Jasenovac\"!)
2) The total number of \"Jasenovac victims\" is around 647,250 (last name, first name, father\'s name, place and year of birth)
3) I have discovered among the names the following \"Jasenovac victims\" (which I am ready to disclose in the suit against JRI for their spreading national and religious hatred in the USA and the world):
-266 persons who died in the Yugoslav refugee camp in El Shatt and southern Italy from 1944/45 among them four children, born and died in El Shatt (according to documents from state archives). Monstrous.
-75 victims of Chetnik crimes in Gata near Omis, occurring on Oct. 1, 1942 with the assistance of Italian fascists. (Here, a monument is erected)
-63 victims of German Nazis i the village Zezevica - 1943, (near Split);
-29 victims from Zrnovnica by Split. This refers to Croatian Partisans dying in NOVJ in the battles on the Neretva and Sutjeska and wider area. (born and died in Zrnovnica)
-57 victims from the memorial monument of fallen partisan fighters -1941-45 i Kastel Sucurac; 79 victims of bombing of church in Kastel Sucurac by the RAF mistake, on 12.05.1943. (Memorial plate)
-75 (from 95) killed - victims in NOB from Vinisca-Trogir (monument) and 15 from 18 who perished - from the monument in Tugarami near Split.
From every monument in Dalmatia 1941-1945, the dead were \"transferred\" to Jasenovac!

Take a look at your monuments!

The above mentioned is evidenced by names. Reviewing the List of Victims (it is larger than the number of soldiers of Napoleon\'s army during its campaign in Russia 1812) the impression is that on the List of Victims are around 70 percent of all who perished from 1941 to 1945, Croatians, Serbs, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Muslims, all Jews on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia and even on the territory of that time Italy (Istria, Rijeka, Zadar, the islands).On the list are almost all the victims of the terror of the German/Italian occupation and of the Chetniks as well as killed Chetniks on Yugoslavia\'s territory. - All in Jasenovac! Really monstrous .

I even found some Ustashe as Jasenovac \"victims\". That\'s why the warning to all on ex-Yugoslavia\'s territory to take a look at their monuments, names of the dead on graves from 1941-1945. They will find many of them transferred to Jasenovac and \"killed by the genocidal Croats\".

Victims\' lists are full of duplicated, invented names, false years and places of birth of the victims. The JRI ,
on its web site, is demanding restitution for the \"victims\" as the condition for Croatia\'s admittance to the EU.
What a satanic chauvinism!

The author, Major General JNA oko Ivanovi writes in the Encyclopedia JNA (published 1967,T-4/627):
\"On the Yugoslav territory the best known concentration camps were: The Banjica camp, Sajmište camp, Šabac camp, Red Cross near Niš, Jasenovac, Sremska Mitrovica and Jadovno. The internal administration of the Banjica camp was in the hands of the Germans. In that camp were about 100,000 detainees, of which 80,000 were killed. The camp on Sajmiste under the administration of the Gestapo was at first exclusively for Jews, but was by the middle of 1942 primarily for NOVJ fighters and antifascists. Through the camp passed around 90,000, and 40,000 prisoners were killed...\" (primarily Jews, op. JK) \"All concentration camps on the territory of Yugoslavia in the Second World War were under the supervision of the occupator.\" At the same time Croatia had 76 partisan detachments, BIH 53, Serbia 45...(excerpt from the same Encyclopedia JNA).

Masters of chaos
A person who lies with evil intentions is the misfortune of his surroundings, an Institution of your rank in New York which lies with evil intentions deliberately provokes or could provoke great calamities in the future, especially in these regions, where the wounds of war have not yet healed. If it is the intention, then this is the preface to the creation of the chaos of hatred in the Balkans and conditions for new conflicts. JRI and its masters of chaos from New York should know that \"We owe the dead only the truth\" (Voltaire) and that
\"Our world is already tired of hate\" (Gandhi).

If to the Greater Serbs the lie is affirmation \"it is our inborn intelligence, we lie creatively, imaginative, inventive...\" (Dobrica osi in \"Deobama\") I am deeply puzzled and worried by the participation of the New York Jewry in this monstrous anti-Croatian Internet attack regarding the history of the Second World War in the Balkans, in the digging up of our dead antifascists, war victims and especially refugees of the Yugoslav refugee camp in El Shatt and in southern Italy. Can you imagine someone touching Yad Vashem,
the Arlington Cemetery...? Quo Vadis America? You, who in Seattle pay $15,000 for emotional pain to the owner of a cat that the neighbor\'s dog killed, must pay at least 15,000 dollars for the emotional pain to everyone whose dead family member, Serb, Jew, Croat and other from the territory of ex-Yugoslavia you deliberately \"killed\" in Jasenovac, proving that our dead are worth at least as much as your dead cat in Seattle.

I am looking for lawyers to file a suit because I believe that the United States still has sufficient democracy to punish an Institute that is disseminating hatred in the USA, Canada and worldwide and is in contradiction to the U.N Declaration. The JRI should learn that honoring the dead strengthens the friendship of the living, that exaggerations remove every belief in the truth. To you who have forgotten the Prophet Isaiah: Remove from my eyes the wicked deeds, stop doing evil. Learn from good deeds and yearn for justice - give help to the downtrodden, help the poor to receive justice, take care of the widow...\"

A Hiroshima Institute
You who excuse the Balkan murderer Milosevic, you who were not in Jasenovac, tens of times I have placed a wreath there in memory of the father and family of my Jewish wife, affected by the proportion of crime and holocaust against Jews as a whole. I still think that Jews are \"our elder brothers\" (Pope John
Paul II), but in contrast to the Israeli relations toward Palestinians, I believe that the Muslims are also our brothers.

Knowing the history from Cheops to Hiroshima - nothing surprises me. Here is my advice. Organize Hiroshima Research Institute for the fastest (3+3 min.) genocide in human history. Some 300,000 dead in an instant cry for - the truth. The ones who died from radiation afterwards will wait. It is better to be among the persecuted than among the persecutors. (Talmud).

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