(np) Serbian trail of tears; how 'bout them Croats?

[Michael Bailey]

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/trail-of-tears-1995.html

Serbs themselves getting displaced.
Serves them right after what they did to the Bosniaks?  well, except
more'n likely it wasn't the same ones...

comment from the discussion posts in the above link:
"Correction: The Krajina Serbs were not ‘expelled’. They left on their
own accord. It is a good thing they did since the 10,000 or so that
stayed behind were slaughtered by the Croatian Army. It should also be
added that the United States aided the Croatian Army by bombarding
Serb positions."

so lemme get this straight, the Serbs were oppressing the Bosniaks, so
we helped the Croats wail on the Serbs?

the Croats and their Ustashe sound like right scary bastids imho...and
if they did kill 10000 Serbs, is that genocide?

** during WWII **
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center (citing the Encyclopedia of
the Holocaust), "Ustasa terrorists killed 500,000 Serbs, expelled
250,000 and forced 250,000 to convert to Catholicism. They murdered
thousands of Jews and Gypsies."

** historical timeline **  note - this is copied verbatim from
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Krajina/index.html
and is not meant to detract from the real sympathy I do feel for
Srebrenica victims - just wanting to include the fact that there may
be some Serbs who deserve sympathy.

Krajina is formed in 1578.  The Serbs are invited to settle.
In the Southern portions of the Habsburg Empire depopulated by Turkish
invasion the Emperor organized Military Frontier ("Vojna Krajina" or
simply "Krajina" in Serbian). This region was autonomous and directly
administered from Vienna. For centuries, the Serbs were defending
Christian Europe from the onslaught of the Islamic armies.

WWII: Subject to Ustashi (Croat Nazi) bestiality
Since the times of Attila the Hun Europe did not experience such an
apocalyptic slaughter. Even Italian fascist officers and their German
Nazi comrades were appalled seeing what their Croat allies did to the
defenseless Serbian population. Genocide that Krajina (and Bosnian)
Serbs have suffered during WWII is difficult to put in words.

1945: Krajina is incorporated into Communist Croatia
Communist Dictator Tito, himself a Croat, made the decision. He and
handfull of his henchmen asked no-one when they created artificial,
administrative, so called "Socialist Federative Republics" (Croatia,
Bosnia,...). The Serbs were not even allowed to morn or rebury their
dead.

1990: Croats resurrect their Nazi past
A year before the unilateral secession of Croatia and all out war in
the region, the newly elected President of Croatia revives the Ustashi
(Nazi) slogans. The prosecution of Serbs in Croatia (and Krajina)
starts.

Autumn 1991: Croats commit the largest ethnic cleansing since WWII.
In front of the watchful eyes of the West (European monitors, etc.)
more than 100,000 Serbs get expelled from their ancestral lands and
property. It happens in part of Krajina called Bilogora. Western media
is utterly silent about the event.

Wanton destruction of the Serbian Churches
96 Serbian (Christian) churches were destroyed by Croat Nazis in 1991.
Many of the churches were outside of the zone of war operations.
Ustashi offsprins continued the job of their fathers. We are talking
here about deliberate destruction of the Serbian culture parallel only
to what Ustashi have done in 1941-1945.

January 1992: Vance "peace" plan - a sleeping pill for the Serbs.
Helped by clumsy Yugoslav Federal Army, Krajina Serbs start regaining
the lost territories. Germany, historical ally of Croatia insists on
Croatia's recognition...
America's Cyrus Vance secures peace by assuring Serbs that they will
be protected by the neutral United Nations. All the territories under
the Serbian control are declared to be the "United Nations Protection
Areas" (UNPA zones). The West plays for time. Despite the arms enbargo
weapons pours into Croatia.

"Peace" time (1991-1995): - Croats continue mass expulsion of the Serbs.
Hundreds of thousands of Serbs get bombed out of their houses. Once
again - Western media is silent.

1993: Croats slaughter Serbs in Medak pocket.
Nazi Croats are testing the ground. They attack a part of UN Protected
Zone. True to their Nazi heritage they kill everybody... And any
living creature they lay their hands on. There is no outrage. True to
their double standard the West downplays the event.

May 1995: Croatian storm troopers attack and destroy entire UN "protected"; zone
The savagery dispayed during the attack on the Medak pocket gets
repeated on much larger scale. A whole UN "protected" zone gets
whipped out. Rivers of civilian blood are covering the roads of
Western Slavonia (the UNPA zone "West"). It is clear to both Serbs and
Croats: the lifes of Serbs are free game. To Nazi Croats everything is
allowed.

Note that these events preceded Serbian take-over of SREBRENICA by few months!

August 1995: Krajina Serbs are put on Trail of Tears
Trained and equipped by America, but also helped with their aviation,
Nazi Croat troops destroy two of the remaining three UNPA zones. After
expelling more than 500 indigenous nations in the endless "land for
peace" quest, American cowboys put yet another nation on the Trail of
Tears.

East Slavonia (1997): Slaughter of Serbs waiting to continue
Croatia is Serben-frei. Out of 600,000 Serbs that lived in its (Tito
designed) borders only 130,000 Serbs live in the last remaining UNPA
zone - East Slavonia. InterNazional community is giving these people a
"fair" choice: Either accept to become "Croat citizens" (i.e. get
Ustashi passport and live under World War II Croat Nazi flag - and
wait to be slaughtered one of these dark nights) or leave your
property and run for your life. Such is the New World Order. Hitler
gave it the name.

------- Again, not trying to detract from anything except from
mindless hatin' on Serbs.  Some of them may well be victims.  Just
like in many countries, the citizenry at large is a different buncha
folks from the military, nicht wahr?

-- 
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