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(E) Remembering Srebrenica
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Remembering Srebrenica Friday, July 08, 2005Source: UN High Commissioner for RefugeesSREBRENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 8 (UNHCR) – The view from Jasmin Muminovic's home across the Drina River is one of the most spectacularly beautiful panoramas in the Balkans. But the 33-year-old former soldier sees only nightmares.Jasmin was severely wounded while serving as a soldier in the national army in the very early days of a series of wars
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(E) Record compensation to Norwegian hostage
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Record compensation to Norwegian UN veteran6. Juni 2005Several thousand former Norwewgian UN soldiers may now demand compensation for occupational injury, after UN vetweran Paul Smines was awarded compensation in the NOK millions for his traumatic experiences in action.He was among other things held hostage by Serbian soldiers in Croatia, and was first offered a NOK 200,000 compensation.- An insult, Smines said, and took the case to court.
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(E) The people who saved US pilots did so under tremendous personal risk
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The people who saved aviators did so under tremendous personal riskI would like to share with you the following excerpt from the book "Partizanske veze - Kopno - Otok Krk - Srednjodalmatinski otoci od 1941 do 1945" ["Partisan Ties: Mainland - Krk Island - Mid-Dalmatian Islands From 1941 to 1945], Rijeka: Adamic, 1999. The booklet contains the proceedings of a round table on the topic held on Krk on June 25, 1997.It should be noted that Krk was u
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(H) BLEIBURG JE MJESTO PLANSKIH EGZEKUCIJA
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BLEIBURG JE MJESTO PLANSKIH EGZEKUCIJABLEIBURG, 14. svibnja 2005. (Hina) - Predsjednik Hrvatskog sabora Vladimir Seks rekao je u subotu u Bleiburgu, na sredisnjoj komemoraciji u povodu 60. godisnjice bleiburske tragedije, da je to mjesto planski smisljenih egzekucija tisuca ljudi.Nasa je obveza nositi sjecanja na neduzne zrtve krvavoga hrvatskog proljeca 1945. godine, rekao je Seks, dodajuci kako treba utvrditi istinu o svim ratnim stradalnici
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(E) Storm is a brilliant historical military and police operation
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Storm is a brilliant historical military and police operation that we can be proud of, the operation which liberated central parts of the occupied Croatia, "And nobody will qualify Storm otherwise," Sanader said. CROATIA: Sanader- ICTY Prosecution Is Crossing the Line 2005-05-11 15:00:34 Ivo Sanader Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Tuesday called on the Croatian public not to be alarmed at the proposal of the ICTY Prosecution to amend the indictm
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(E) Croatian Antifascist Movement in Istria
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Croatian Antifascist Movement in IstriaHow the Yugoslav Communists Suppressed the Croatian Antifascist Movement in IstriaSent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:38 PMSubject: Re: Miller & IstriaI wanted to respond to Rudi Arapovic's comments to give one an idea of what I meant by pointing out the positive.Unfortunately, WWII history in Croatia has been and to a great extent continues to be ideologized and remains an issue of political contenti
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(E) Healing with words: A survivor of war shares her experiences
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Healing with words: A survivor of war shares her experiencesMezetovic regrets that she didn’t take the threat of war seriously enough until it came to her front door. “When war broke out inCroatia,” she recalled, “I watched the news on TV as if it were far way. It’s as if war broke out in New Hampshire, it was that close. It didn’t occur to me that it could happen to us. I wish I had done something.”
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(E) History of Mother's Day Celebration
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History of Mother's Day Celebration By Katarina TepeshOn the second Sunday in May, many families and churches make a special point of honoring mothers, hoping that Mother's Day would increase respect for parents and strengthen family bonds.Historians claim that the holiday of Mother's Day emerged from the ancient festival dedicated to mother goddess.In Rome, too, a mother Goddess was worshipped as early as 250 BC. Historians say that t
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(E) Is Image Everything? American Stereotypes of Croatia
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Is Image Everything? American Stereotypes ofCroatia and Croatians.Text for a Talk Delivered in Chicago on April 26, 2005.James J. SadkovichLet me address two questions this evening:1. Why does Croatia have such a bad image in the United States?2. Why do Americans mourn the disappearance of Yugoslavia?Mourning the Loss of OzTo understand the second question takes us some way to understanding the first, so let me begin with it. If you have se
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