Archive for the 'Jasenovac' Category :

War Crime Hypocrisy

Posted by AriRusila on 30/12/10

Related to Serbia’s EU association process nearly every progress report of European Commission highlights Serbia’s cooperation with Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Although the country has demonstrated its commitment to moving closer to the EU by building up a track record in implementing the provisions of the Interim Agreement with the EU and [...]

Krajina – Victory with Ethnic Cleansing

Posted by AriRusila on 15/08/10

Thousands of people across several Balkan countries have held services last week to commemorate those who died in Operation Storm 15-years ago. Like normal in Balkans the views what happened are almost opposite to each other. One side is celebrating victory, the other side has remembrance of those who died during the largest refugee crisis [...]

Proceedings against Pope & Vatican possible

Posted by AriRusila on 15/04/10

“Less than one percent of priests are guilty of this…” ( Ratzinger) When visit of pope Benedict is coming closer in UK a wide debate has started about possibility to put pope in court due protecting paedophile priests. George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian how the case against pope rests on international law’s potential to [...]

Jasenovac – Holocaust promoted by Vatican

Posted by AriRusila on 27/01/10

The UN General Assembly chose January 27 as the official day for the commemoration, as it was on this day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp, the last such camp still functioning. Throughout Europe, tributes will be paid to the 53 million people who died during World War II, of whom [...]

Holocaust, commemoration and Balkans

Posted by AriRusila on 30/01/09

The UN General Assembly chose January 27 as the official day for the commemoration, as it was on this day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. Throughout Europe, tributes will be paid to the 53 million people who died during World War II, of whom 31 million were civilians. Commemoration has [...]

Nazi’s Funeral shadows Croatia’s past

Posted by AriRusila on 01/08/08

Israel’s ambassador to Croatia,  Shmuel Meirom,  harshly criticized on Thursday 31 July 2008 the funeral given to a head of a World War Two concentration camp in Zagreb, saying also that it insulted the memory of those killed in the camp run by Croatia’s Nazi-allied Ustasha regime. Sakic died aged 87 on July 20 [...]

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