This is a SECOND CHAPTER in the story of unreported slaughter of the Serbs in Central Bosnia. The introduction presented at this link also contains maps showing Mrkonjic Grad's position. If you did not - please read that page first. Again, as the Western media did not want to report on the event where the Serbs were the victims we have to somewhat depart from our Library Section pledge to present Western sources only. Here we have to rely mostly on the Serbian sources. Whatever little the Western sources admit though, will be enough to support the Serbian claims.

The true genocidal nature of NATO's all out attack on the Serbian people at the end of 20th century can easily be seen in the example of the bloody orgy perpetrated on the captured Serbs in the small Bosnian Serb town of Mrkonjic Grad.

The slaughter happened in the very last two days of 72 (seventy two) days long NATO performed ethnic cleansing, of the Western Serbs. The raw military force NATO unleashed, and horror it produced, was of a kind not experienced on the European continent since the time of Hitler.

The wide sweep of Serb-cleansing started with NATO airplane attack on Serbian command centers in Krajina on August 2, 1995. The air assault was to provide cover for the American proxies on the ground - the new Croat Nazis. America not only trained and equipped Croat forces - they planned this genocide in detail. Croats did not even have to come up with the name of the operation. It will be known in history as operation "Storm" a name borrowed from American original - "Operation Desert Storm."

The result of this two and half months long NATO's relentless bombing, combined with their local proxies' ground assault, was that huge swats of historically Serbian lands (as shown on the previous page) were cleansed of the Serbs. More than half a million Western Serbs lost their houses and the lands they inherited from father to son - over centuries.

These people lost everything they ever owned.

By October 12, 1995 when the hostilities against the Serbian people (at least temporarily) ended, the Serbs suffered by far largest ethnic cleansing in their entire, long and sore history. The carnage will continue with expulsion of Sarajevo and then Kosovo Serbs.

Centuries long merciless rule of the Turkish Empire, all-out attack on the Serbian people by the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War One, mass-slaughter of the Serbian people by their Croat, Muslim and Albanian neighbors during the times of Hitler and Mussolini - all of this was surpassed by America and its Western European club of ex-colonial, genocidal nations.

There is no need to elaborate this statement. Whoever knows even the most basic history of this world knows quite well who the oppressor nations of this planet are. Germans, Turks, Americans, Brits, Spaniards and French but even little Belgium have long list of atrocities they committed over countless peoples of this planet. They murdered and pillaged far and wide - across the globe. And they glorified and justified it all. Despite everything they were always right. Despite everything they always saw themselves as people of higher culture and higher moral values.

They grabbed whole continents and far way islands - and every piece of dirt sticking out of water. At the same time they were the same ones who blamed Bosnia and Krajina Serbs for "land-grab" and now even of the "war crime".

The proof to the genocidal nature of the Western onslaught on the Serbian people lies in the fact that the Serbs were denied their inborn right to simply - exist! When the Serbs simply dared defend their very existence in Krajina and Bosnia they were called aggressors, land-grabbers even conquerors. All the Serbian leaders - anyone of importance - whether in the realm of politics or military were declared a "war criminal." They were dragged to the Hague dungeons or simply murdered on the street in front of their family.

It is undeniable that what happened in Mrkonjic Grad was a true war crime. It is also undeniable that the Western powers carry the full responsibility for it. It is they who provided airplanes, tanks and howitzers which enabled Croat knives to finish the job.

Let me repeat here that NATO openly took side in Bosnia's civil war and became aviation for Croat Nazis and pro-Al Qaeda Bosnian Muslim forces. It is frequently overlooked though that NATO also employed "Rapid Reaction Force." This force consisted of tanks and artillery which provided ground support for the proxies.

They were merciless too. Mr. Tika Jankovic, a Serb who lives for couple of decades in California reported the following:

"In May 1998 I visited Mrkonjic Grad in Republika Srpska. A regiment of English SFOR troops was based in the area. Earlier, in October, 1995, the British had bombarded Mrkonjic Grad for 24 hours, dropping 10,000 shells on a city of some 30,000 people, mainly Serbs… These were the same howitzers they used in supporting their Croat-Nazi ally when they cleansed Knin the capital of Serbian Krajina. On the Serbian population they even tested 400 mm cannons built for the ships. A month before the attack NATO's pilotless airplanes were filming the area studying every square foot. This was clearly a NATO operation targeting a Serbian town in preparation to cleanse it of its Serb population.

I talked to witnesses from Mrkonjic Grad. English SFOR troops was shelling the town for full three days: October 8, 9 and 10. It was close to impossible to escape the shelling and Croat troops encirclement. Some people - women and children included - were able to escape the encirclement at the last moment, but the Croat troops broke through. The escaping Serb civilians were hunted down, brought to the Serb cemetery in Mrkonjic Grad and then tortured there - for days. Slow death was to be their destiny.

What kind of ammunition did the English troops use is also clear now. I spoke to several residents who worked at the British NATO base. They told me that the British commander had issued warnings to the troops not to drink the water or touch the soil or purchase food produced by local farmers for fear of DU and other contamination from their bombing and spraying.

NATO troops left the town in Croat hands for a few months after the war ended. They used the time to carefully study the destructive effects of their shelling."

But let us put the events on the time line:

The hostilities supposedly ended on October 12, 1995, but month and a half later the Croats still have a free hand. Are they busy covering the atrocity they performed? No, they do not care about that. They have powerful protectors. Here is what they do:

OMRI Daily Digest, No. 229, November 27, 1995
by Patrick Moore (quote):

CROATIAN TROOPS TORCHING MRKONJIC GRAD. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 27 November reported that uniformed Croats are systematically looting and burning properties in Mrkonjic Grad and surrounding areas. Croatian forces took the region in the weeks before the peace conference but will return it to the Serbs rather than yield [sic!!!] land to them along the northern supply corridor...

As we saw in the previous page the Croats not only do not yield land in the Northern Corridor - NATO grants them more land there including the municipality of Odzak.

A week later even anti-Serb CNN has to report:

CNN report dated: December 2, 1995
Web posted at: 11:45 p.m. EST (0445 GMT) QUOTE:

GORNJI VAKUF, Bosnia (CNN) - Bosnian Croat militia forces ransacked and torched houses in areas scheduled to return to the Serbs despite earlier assurances by their leaders that the destruction would stop, the United Nations said Saturday.

An entire village was burnt to the ground near the town of Mrkonjic Grad. The town was pillaged earlier this week by Croat forces enraged that the Serbs had won back the region under the Dayton, Ohio, peace accord.

U.N. spokesperson Chris Vernon said 20 buildings were burning in the region of Sipovo at the time when the Bosnian Croat militia had deployed additional troops in the sector.

U.N. personnel said they saw other fires across the area. Some occurred while Bosnian Croat soldiers watched, belying claims of official disapproval, U.N. personnel said.

After the local Bosnian Coat militia denied they were trying to raze the area and promised to rein in "rogue" elements [sic], the burning appeared to abate.

The United Nations had assessed Wednesday that the Bosnian Croats were more interested in systematically looting the area than in burning property.

"The fact we're seeing (militia) soldiers stand by watching the fires burning is not consistent with attempts to halt the blazes," said Alun Roberts, a U.N. spokesperson. "As time goes by the pledges of increased security seem more and more feeble."

The United Nations also complained that British reconnaissance units were being kept out of Mrkonjic Grad and other restrictions were being placed on their movement.

"They (the [Croat] militia) are very nervous [sic!] of the U.N. moving around," Roberts said.

Note that anti-Serb CNN gave all kinds of excuses to Croats while not mentioning that the Serbs handed over the areas they held - without problem. Again, see case of Odzak for example. The Serbs were forced by the Dayton "agreement" to give away some strategic key areas like most of "Northern Corridor" a corridor to Gorazde, all the possessions in Sarajevo, etc.

Three days later on December 5,1995 slow to react UN representative finally makes some verbal complaint:

The UNPROFOR spokesman in Sarajevo A. Ivanko reported that members of HVO continue to plunder and set on fire Serbian houses in Sipovo and Mrkonjic Grad. "They violate the Dayton agreement with this conduct. Croatian military representatives of HVO told us they will end that vandalism, but nothing changed on the ground", said Ivanko. "UN forces continue to report that 20 buildings are burning on the territory of Sipovo although HVO deployed additional units on that territory", estimated the UN military representative Chris Vernon.

Another two days passed, another empty UN complaint:

Security Council SC/6138
3603rd Meeting (PM) 7 December 1995

SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS END TO LOOTING, BURNING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Presidential Statement Cites Acts Near Mrkonjic Grad, Sipovo

The Security Council this afternoon demanded an immediate end to the looting and burning of houses by Bosnian Croat forces in the area of Mrkonjic Grad and Sipovo...

In a statement read out on the Council's behalf by its President, Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation), the Council expressed deep concern over such actions, calling them dangerous and detrimental to implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina. It stressed the need for maximum restraint and cooperation from all the parties.

The meeting, which was called to order at 5:32 p.m., was adjourned at 5:38 p.m.

The ... text of the Presidential statement, to be released as document S/PRST/1995/60, reads as follows:

"The Security Council expresses deep concern over the looting and burning of houses by the HVO forces in the area of Mrkonjic Grad and Sipovo, which have continued for some time... The Council is also deeply concerned by reports that the HVO is moving mine laying equipment into the Mrkonjic Grad and Sipovo areas.

"The Security Council considers that such actions are dangerous and detrimental to the spirit of confidence essential for the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/1995/999, annex).

"The Security Council demands that all such actions be stopped immediately and stresses the need for all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to demonstrate the cooperation essential for the successful implementation of the Peace Agreement."

[Belgrade] Borba,
January 2, 1996

A joint delegation comprising local officials from Mrkonjic-Grad and Sipovo, visited the two towns and established that they have been practically razed to the ground and most of the buildings burned - said Mr. Slavko Kopuz - chairman of the Mrkonjic-Grad Municipal Council Executive Board. "Combined units of the Croatian Army and Croatian Defense Council (HVO), that are supposed to withdraw from Mrkonjic-Grad and Sipovo on February 2 according to the Dayton Agreement, plundered all private and public property in the two towns." - Mr. Kopuz said. He stressed that extensive damage has been inflicted to the waterworks and sewage system adding that most of the plants have been burned, and that in the remaining ones the machinery has been dismantled and taken away. Mr. Brano Jovanic - manager of the "Elektro Krajina" power company and member of the expert team that entered Mrkonjic-Grad with the help of IFOR troops, revealed that the Croats plundered power network very systematically. There are practically no transformer station left in the region. Not a single screw is left in the local screw factory and there isn't a single window left in the entire town.

USA Today,
By Susan Page

Meanwhile, in Croatia, the U.N. refugee agency condemned what it called a scorched-earth policy being carried out by Croatian forces in a Bosnian town that is to be handed back to Serbs. Houses were being burned and looted in the town of Mrkonjic Grad, an agency spokesman said.

Not much else was heard in the democratic West about this "condemnation."

In Chapter Four we talk about just how thorough the Croat Nazi destruction was. Let us quote here words of one of Serb survivors, as he returned to completely gutted house that used to be his home:

"There's not a single square foot of livable space here... They took everything and deliberately left the empty photo album. That's their message... It is my misery to have eyes and be forced to look at all this."

March 20, 1996 - Following the withdrawal of federal forces in keeping with the Dayton accord, Bosnian Serb forces (VRS) enter the region around Sipkovo and Mrkonjic Grad. The 1,000 VRS men are monitored by 2,000 IFOR peacekeepers and NATO air patrols.

For full five months the West did not care to check what happened to the local Serbs - while, at the same time digging everywhere around Srebrenica in trying to blame the entire war and all atrocities - to the Serb people.

The Serbs start digging right away.

[Yugoslav news agency] Tanjug,
March 31, 1996,
Mrkonjic Grad

Another 18 bodies of Bosnian Serb civilians and troops killed in a Muslim-Croat offensive against the west of the Republika Srpska in 1995 were exhumed from a mass grave at Mrkonjic Grad on Sunday, second day of exhumation. The bodies taken out of the unmarked 70-by-50-metre mass grave in the western Bosnian Serb town of Mrkonjic Grad's Orthodox Christian graveyard had been piled one on top of another without order or method.

On the first day, ten bodies were recovered, all showing signs of blows having been administered to the head, according to forensic pathologists.

The forensic team from the Belgrade military hospital, headed by dr Zoran Stankovic, determined on Sunday that the bodies all had crushed skulls, but the cause of death will be determined after a detailed autopsy.

The opening of the grave was attended by John Garns of the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, representatives of other international organisations, domestic and foreign reporters. The exhumation is expected to be completed by the end of next week.

[Bosnian Serb News Agency]
SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS,
April 2, 1996,
Mrkonjic Grad

The other one mass grave was opened today at the Orthodox graveyard in Mrkonjic Grad which, according to findings of experts, contains mostly bodies mostly women and elders. From the two mass graves, total 110 bodies of Serb soldiers and civilians were exhumed, while only 20 were identified. The experts will continue their work, even though the identification is made all the more difficult because documents or personal belongings were not found together with the exhumed bodies.

Borba,
April 3, 1996

Seventy-eight bodies have been exhumed from the mass grave at the Orthodox cemetery in Mrkonjic Grad, containing the victims of the Moslem-Croatian offensive on Western parts of the Republic of Srpska last autumn. The remains of the victims - mostly civilians - show that they were tortured before dying; numerous have cracked skulls, some bodies show burns, and some have been mutilated - without extremities. It is estimated that the tomb contains the bodies of about 200 Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers.

At last, Western media pays some attention - but note that none of the reports are printed. They are wire reports. Very few people have access or read wire reports. The general public in the West remains in the dark.

Associated Press, (wire report)
April 3, 1996
(AP-DS-04-03-96 0511EST)

By GEORGE ESPER
AP Special Correspondent

... Serbs, ... are publicizing alleged atrocities where they were the victims.

Belgrade's Tanjug news agency said Tuesday that digs at Mrkonjic Grad in western Bosnia have revealed the remains of 110 Serb soldiers and civilians. Exhumation began Saturday, and the mass graves are believed to contain more than 200 bodies, Tanjug said.

Bosnian Serb sources claim that at least 300 Serbs _ soldiers and civilians _ died in the Croat offensive last autumn against Mrkonjic Grad. Serbs lost the town but were ceded it in the negotiations that led to the Dayton peace agreement late last year and the end of the Bosnian war...

Notice how these are supposedly "alleged atrocities" despite the piles of clearly mutilated bodies and despite that the Western representatives were present to verify the facts.

In the next Western wire report presented here - clear instructions were given to the Western reader that Srebrenica -- and not Mrkonjic Grad -- should symbolize the horrors of the Bosnian wars. Also, this time, the Westerners are quite easily finding "proofs" for the Serbian "crime." These blunt, baseless and harsh accusations leveled against the Serbian people are not labeled as allegations any more. A scrap of cloth or even a strange smell is a "proof."

Associated Press, (wire report)
April 4, 1996
(AP-DS-04-04-96 1655EST)

By GEORGE ESPER
AP Special Correspondent

SAHINICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) _ U.N. investigators on Thursday stacked up rows of blindfolds on a muddy hillside, powerful evidence that beneath them lay the victims of an ethnic massacre.

The dozens of blindfolds, strips of cloth mostly in dark colors, support survivors' accounts that up to 7,000 men [wow!!!] were slaughtered by the Bosnian Serbs who overran the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica last summer.

In Bosnia's first spring thaw in peace after four years of war, investigators are spreading out in pursuit of human remains and other physical evidence to back up such accounts. What they find will be used by the war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands to prosecute those responsible.

Other mass graves dot Bosnia _ Bosnian Serbs have excavated more than 100 bodies near the western town of Mrkonjic Grad since Saturday. The Serbs say the victims apparently were killed by Croats.

But Srebrenica appears to be the site of the worst massacre of the war, and the fields around it have come to symbolize the horror of Bosnia's ordeal... [Our comment: Yes, thanks to Western lies and propaganda].

The war crimes tribunal has indicted the Bosnian Serbs' highest leaders, Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, for their alleged roles in the Srebrenica massacre...[Our comment: All top Bosnian Serb both military and political leadership is declared by the West as war criminals. And no-one of importance from Bosnian Muslim or Croat side. A clear - racist bias!].

Almost 100 U.S. troops with Bradley fighting vehicles, artillery and attack helicopters were in the area to provide security for the U.N. team if needed. But for the most part they were distant from the actual site. Except for a few Bradleys and humvees, they remained out of sight. [No-one guards or cares for the Serbs.]

Associated Press, (wire report)
April 5, 1996
(AP-DS-04-05-96 1628EST)

By GEORGE ESPER
AP Special Correspondent

BRANJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) _ William Haglund walked through a Bosnian farm Friday, stopping where human bones protruded from the mud. Over and over, he inserted a five-foot steel pole into the earth, pulled it out and sniffed for death.

"You can smell it when it's there," said U.N. investigator [from a NATO country] Jean-Rene Ruez, explaining why his colleague was raising the probe to his nose.

Haglund, a U.N. consultant from Seattle [United States] who works with the Boston-based group Physicians for Human Rights, recorded his observations with a tape recorder, speaking too quietly for observers to hear him.

He and his six U.N. [actually - NATO] colleagues were searching for evidence of a mass grave believed to lie beneath the collective farm in the heart of Bosnian Serb territory.

Branjevo is about 30 miles northwest of Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave that fell to the Serbs last July. About 7,000 men disappeared [according to Muslim sources] when the town fell...

Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, visited the site two weeks ago and said she believed as many as 1,000 people were buried under the farm. [Our comment: This astonishing anti-Serb bigot whose life was twice saved by the Serbs, has super-human abilities. She has X-ray vision and is able to see through dirt and gravel. She is also a born patologist and is able to recognize human bones vs. bones of a cow. Truly amazing creature which only lives in the U.S. but is actually from planet Crypton.]

The U.N. team searched Friday for evidence to back up that belief. [i.e. to back up the astonishing accusations by the bitch.] They took photographs of mounds of dirt and of human remains that protruded from them. They tagged each bit of evidence with yellow markers...

[Crap about Croat Drazen Erdemovic claims snipped... Words, and words only of this Croat were supposedly a proof of Serb atrocity... All of his verbal accusations were put in this report. ...]

Branjevo is just one of several places near Srebrenica believed to hold mass graves. Investigators are spreading out to search them for evidence that can be used by the war crimes tribunal to prosecute those [Serbs!] responsible for the slaughter.

On Thursday, the U.N. investigators found dozens of blindfolds and some human remains in the village of Sahinici, supporting survivors' accounts of a slaughter of hundreds there.

And on Friday, Bosnian Serbs said [said only!?] they had excavated 181 bodies near the western town of Mrkonjic Grad since March 30. The Serbs say the victims were killed by Muslim and Croat troops during an offensive last fall.

All but one of the bodies showed signs of violence, the head of the team, Zoran Stankovic, told the Belgrade, Yugoslavia-based Tanjug news agency on Friday. Tanjug said 74 of the 181 bodies removed so far had been identified.

Stankovic said the victims were mostly civilians, with the youngest 22 years old and the oldest over 90. There were some soldiers in the grave, and the bodies of women killed in their nightgowns.

"I never saw so many bodies with severe head injures," he later told The Associated Press. "About half of all the victims were killed with a serious blunt instrument, apparently without possibility to defend themselves."

Stankovic said international observers were present during the dig, and the Serbs filmed the procedure.

Obviously the Western journalists did not care to learn, in this case, who were the Western compatriots who were present at the site of massacre of the Serbs.

Here are names of some Western organizations present - just for your record:

Politika,
April 4, 1996

The exhumation and the post-mortem of the bodies buried in the mass grave at the Orthodox cemetery in Mrkonjic Grad is proceeding slowly. The tomb contains the remains of the civilians... killed last autumn during the Croatian-Moslem joint offensive on the western border of the Republic of Srpska. The initial findings made by the expert team of pathologists from the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade - headed by Prof. Dr. Zoran Stankovic, revealed that the graves contain the remains of both civilians and soldiers and the identification will be very difficult. The exhumation is monitored by the representative of the Hague International Tribunal for Crimes of War - Mr. John Gems, as well as by observers from the EU Mission, the International Police forces and from the Fund for Humanitarian Rights from Belgrade.

Politika,
April 5, 1996

Captain Borisa Ilic - Investigative Judge of the Banjaluka Military Court, submitted a request to the investigative bodies to gather data on the state of the family homes of all those whose remains have been identified after being exhumed from the mass grave at the Orthodox cemetery in Mrkonjic Grad. There are justified suspicions that the homes have been destroyed and that this along with the massacre constitutes a crime of war against civilian population, said Cap. Ilic. From the two mass graves, 181 corpses have been exhumed. They were all victims of the Moslem-Croatian terror during their offensive on western parts of the Republic of Srpska last autumn when Mrkonjic Grad was occupied. Many of them were civilians, prevalently women and elderly persons - said the head of the team of pathologists - Prof. Dr. Zoran Stankovic, adding that most of them have been brutally killed - usually with a blow of a blunt object in the head. There are indications that a certain number of victims were mental patients - and such individuals are protected by international laws.

SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS,
Saturday, April 6, 1996

SARAJEVO - A grave containing the corpses of two Muslims killed by the Croats following the fall of Mrkonjic Grad was discovered today at the "Mezar" Muslim cemetery in Mrkonjic Grad. Public prosecutor Vitomir Soldat explained that five more corpses were found in the grave, but were not identified because no papers were found on them.

CNN World News,
April 7, 1996

MRKONJIC GRAD, Bosnia (CNN) -- Excavations at a mass grave site in northwestern Bosnia have uncovered seven bodies so far. The remains are believed to be those of Bosnians killed in Mrkonjic Grad near the end of last year, when it was controlled by Bosnian Croats.

Officials from the International Red Cross and the NATO-led Implementation Force are overseeing the excavation.

SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS,
Saturday, April 8, 1996

BANJALUKA - Well-known Belgrade pathologist, Dr. Zoran Stankovic and military prosecutor Srboljub Jovicinac announced that after eight days of work, 104 Serb corpses, exhumed from two mass graves in Mrkonjic Grad, were identified. Dr. Stankovic explained that 181 corpses were from the Orthodox graveyard, and another six from the Muslim gaveyard. The investigating judge, Borislav Ilic, said that the crime was committed by the Croatian Army and the HOS.

Notice how the phrase "Serbs say..." was used in the title as if this was only a Serbian allegation.

Associated Press, (wire report)
April 8, 1996
(AP-DS-04-08-96 1616EDT)

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) _ Mass graves uncovered in western Bosnia contain dozens of civilian Serb victims of Croat massacres, including women apparently slain while still in their nightclothes, Serb forensic experts said Monday.

A representative of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, international police and European Union monitors were present as Serbs exhumed 181 bodies in two mass graves at the Serbian Orthodox cemetery in the town of Mrkonjic Grad, 75 miles northwest of Sarajevo.

The tribunal representative refused to comment on the Serbs' findings from an eight-day investigation at the cemetery. [Not even a comment!!!] Bosnian Croats never have answered the Serb charges.

Serbs have been eager to show that, although blamed [thanks to Western lies and manipulation] for most of the atrocities in the Bosnian war, they, too, suffered at the hands of Croats and Muslims.

In any case, Serb officials said Monday that the evidence they unearthed in Mrkonjic Grad left little doubt that Croats killed Serb civilians.

Zoran Stankovic, a Serb forensics expert, told reporters that 102 of the corpses unearthed had smashed skulls, fractures, bullet holes at the back of the head from shots fired at close range, and other signs of non-combat death.

"The head injuries alone say a lot about those who killed those people," he said.

Bosnian Serbs had control over the town and parts of western Bosnia for most of the war, [or more precisely - since seventh century when the Serbs settled in Bosnia] which began in 1992. Last fall, Croatian army and Bosnian Croat forces teamed up with the Muslim-led Bosnian army to take the town and adjacent territory.

It was returned to the Serbs as part of the Dayton peace agreement.

Serbs have claimed that along with extensive looting and burning of the area, Croats killed up to 300 Serb civilians and captured soldiers.

The Serb officials said [as all of the present Western monitors were born mute and could not say it themselves in the same way] 27 of the dead were more than 60 years old, and four corpses were decapitated. Slightly more than half the bodies were in military uniform, but among those in civilian clothes were women in nightgowns, Serb investigators said.

Dozens of relatives of missing people came to the town, and stood nearby as officials exhumed the bodies.

Serbs also have said they found the charred remains of elderly people in houses in the Mrkonjic Grad area.

SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS,
Wednesday, April 10, 1996

Yesterday, in the village of Suvjan, close to Mrkonjic Grad, eight civilian victims were identified, mostly old people. Entire Serb families of Grmas, Rozic and Jorganovic were found - burned to death - in the house of [69 years old] Pantelija Grmas.

The victims of this Croat Ustashas' atrocity perpetrated during their offensive last October, were identified as:
- Pantelija (Stanka) Grmas - woman born in 1926,
- Sava (Jove) Grmas - man born in 1928,
- Branko (Simeuna) Rozic - man born in 1926,
- Nevenka (Stanka) Rozic - woman born in 1932,
- Radojka (Branka) Rozic - woman born in 1961,
- Radojka (Sima) Jorganovic - woman born in 1926,
- Jela (Jova) Jorganovic - woman born in 1934,
- Branko Kudra - man born in 1938

Notice the age of the victims. How would the Western press react if it was Serbs who were found to murder old, helpless people? Would that not be the front page article for New York Times and the like?

What could be the point of purposely murdering a 90 years old person? Just because the person was born as a Serb? What is the message of such atrocities? And yes - Croat Nazis clearly wanted the leave the message as they left bodies of their victims unburied for everyone to see. The murderers were in the area months after the crime - but did not care to try to hide it.

What is absolutely shocking is this blunt repetition of the horrible history. It is the worst nightmare becoming true. The very same people who somehow survived appalling atrocities of the original Ustashas - during WWII and the time of Hitler, did not manage to survive this time and the second onslaught of revamped Ustashas during the reign of one Bill Clinton!

How appalled would the world be if Germans resumed burning the Jews? Why is the world not appalled when the victims are the Serbs?

Remember the sentence Encyclopedia Britannica repeated for almost two decades?
(Quote):

"...IN BOSNIA...THE CROATIAN FASCISTS BEGAN A MASSACRE OF SERBS WHICH, IN THE WHOLE ANNALS OF WORLD WAR II, WAS SURPASSED FOR SAVAGERY ONLY BY THE MASS EXTERMINATION OF POLISH JEWS"!!!!!!!!

(End quote)

There you have the Serbian suffering in Bosnia in 1940's.

Here you have the Serbian suffering in Bosnia in 1990's.

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After 12 days 123 out of 181 identified!!!

SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS,
Thursday, April 11, 1996

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MRKONJIC-GRAD - Out of 181 exhumed Serb corpses from the mass grave in Mrkonjic-Grad, 123 victims had been identified.

(End quote)

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Politika,
April 22, 1996

MASS GRAVES IN MRKONJIC GRAD - THE LARGEST ONES IN BOSNIA

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The international observers who were present at the exhumation of the victims from the mass graves in Mrkonjic Grad, confirm that these are the largest mass graves discovered so far in Bosnia, Reuters reports. Serbs knew that the area of Mrkonjic Grad was burnt-down and plundered during the offensive of the Croat forces, but no one was ready to face what has actually been discovered. The experts have found 181 bodies in the shallow graves. Croats, who have conquered this town in their offensive of October last, claim that they have buried some Serbian soldiers, but the autopsy finds, however, are raising serious doubts as to such claims, states Reuters. From the exhumated victims, 102 are having serious scull injuries, four are beheaded and 11 are the bodies of old and middle-aged women. The Hague Tribunal for War Crimes will examine the documentation submitted to it by the Serbian authorities, demanding for the proceedings to be instigated on the grounds of Croat crimes committed in the area of Mrkonjic Grad.

(End quote)

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SRNA REVIEW OF DAILY NEWS,
May 3, 1996

THE IDENTIFICATION WAS NOT EASY!

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SARAJEVO - "During my 15-day stay in Mrkonjic Grad I could see only sights of terror, bodies were buried in 230 meters deep [mountain] pits full of water," stated Prof. Dr Zoran Stankovic, pathologist from the Military-Medical Academy in Belgrade. "The identification was made even more difficult because we did not find personal documents. No documents were found at 171 bodies; 63 bodies were found without any personal things, and 53 without footwear," stated Dr. Stankovic.

(End quote)

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Politika,
May 4, 1996

THE METHODS OF KILLING STAY THE SAME

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At a press conference for foreign and domestic reporters held in Pale, Zoran Stankovic M.D. - pathologist of the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade - who investigated 30 mass graves in Bosnia with his forensics team, revealed that 181 bodies have been exhumed at the Orthodox graveyard in Mrkonjic Grad. The head wounds found on 102 victims, appear to be the same as those observed on victims in Mostar, Kupres Valley and River Sava Valley, and according to doctor Stankovic, this indicates a characteristic treatment of the prisoners by the Croats. The same forensics expert drew a parallel with the report on Croatian and Moslem crimes against Serbs during WW I [World War One!!!] by Dr. Archibald Rice and similar reports on crimes committed during WW II. He remarked that the methods of killing remained the same, and offered the example of the Croatian Army colonel Boris Zdilar, who stated in an interview for Croatian Television that the victims in Mrkonjic Grad were members of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) and that they were killed in action, whilst the investigation revealed that the victims were 60, 70 and even 80 years old. Mr. John Gerns - expert of the Hague Tribunal that monitored the exhumation of the mass graves in Mrkonjic Grad, confirmed Dr. Stankovic's findings and stated that the Hague Tribunal will base its investigation on them.

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SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS,
May 7, 1996

UN officials visit Mrkonjic Grad mass graves

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BANJA LUKA - Mass graves at Mrkonjic Grad undoubtedly testify a horrible atrocities, and between the victims were women, children and old Serbian people - stated at Banja Luka Elizabeth Rehn, a special UN envoy for human rights. "I met also the Muslim citizens which live here peacefully, and they confirmed that they don't have any problems, except difficult living conditions, as the consequence of recent war"- stressed Mrs. Rehn at the press release.

MRKONJIC GRAD - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata visited mass graves in Mrkonjic Grad where last month were discovered 181 bodies of Serbian civilians killed by Croats during withdrawal from this city which was allotted to RS in accordance with Dayton peace accord. Ogata visited also a city hospital and talked with the citizens of Mrkonjic Grad which returned back to their destroyed and burned homes.

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It is clear what is happening here. The U.N. representatives visit the suffering Serbs and pretend that someone cares about their destinies. But Serbian destinies are controlled by America's might and not by UN which is but a tool of American oppression and planet-wide conquest. Mrs. Rehn and Mrs. Ogata came to fool the Serbs and to give them a false sense of Western justice and care.

In the Western press we found no mention of these UN official visits or what they have said or done. Not even a trace.

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"We have detailed reports
and over 20,000 photographs"

New York Times anti-Serb bigots were the last to mention Mrkonjic Grad massacre. They were persistently outraged (front page!) when 22, 68 and 33 civilians were murdered in camera-ready Sarajevo staged atrocities. Now, that 181 Serbs (a number larger than all of the above numbers combined!) were found mutilated, murdered in cold blood - their journalist Chris Hedges puts this news in the last quoter of otherwise vehemently anti-Serb article.

The key lie that the Serbs were conquering other people's lands - and not simply defending lands and property where they lived for centuries - finds its place right in the title of this bigoted article. The title revamps Austro-Hungarian World War One anti-Serb propaganda slogan about "Greater Serbia." It reads: "Dreams of 'Greater Serbia' Live on in a Pale Bar".

Once the NYT reader swallows this elephant, the journalist can continue to make fun of the Serbian anger and despair. Almost million Western Serbs lost everything they ever owned - thanks to NATO bombing - but the article presents them as some sore, irrational losers who lost their loot; their "land-grab".

To add insult to injury and as a clear sign of bad taste, the author dares ridicule the Serbian grief over their dead and says that Nazi style murder of those 181 people is somehow magnified(!).

We do not know on what page (or if ever) this text was printed in the yellow newspaper, but you can find the integral text if you follow this link.

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The New York Times,
May 12, 1996
"Dreams of 'Greater Serbia' Live on in a Pale Bar"
by Chris Hedges
(EXCERPT):

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...[Bosnian Serb officials] had gathered to hear a talk by a Belgrade pathologist, Dr. Zoran Stankovic.

He had just exhumed the bodies of 181 Serbs found in a mass grave in Mrkonjic Grad, 23 miles south of Banja Luka. The grave was discovered after the withdrawal of Croatian troops, part of the Dayton agreement's redrawing of the boundaries between the Serbian, Muslim and Croatian entities that now make up Bosnia.

While most of the civilian victims in this war were Muslim or Croatian, [SIC!!!] there were also atrocities committed against the Serbs. And these atrocities are magnified [sic!] by the Serb leadership, while the reports of Serbian killing of Muslims, including some 3,000 Muslims captured in Srebrenica last year, are denied. Most Bosnian Serb leaders assert that the Muslims killed their own people and shelled their own markets in Sarajevo just to tarnish the Serbs' image.

"We have investigated 30 mass graves with Serbian victims since the start of the war," the pathologist said, "and we have reported our findings to the international court in The Hague. But the court has yet to investigate these graves. We have found 3,500 Serbian victims. We have detailed reports and over 20,000 photographs. "

The doctor flicked off the lights of the room and began to show slides of decapitated and mutilated corpses.

"You can see here how this man's eyes were gouged out," he said, lingering over the disfigured face of a young man. "And, look on the belly of this man, you can see how the Muslims carved in the Islamic crescent and star on the skin."

As if the slides were not enough, he also showed videotapes, most taken as he carried out his autopsies. The unease and outrage in the room grew to the desired pitch....

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Desperately searching for the "SERBIAN CRIME"

The May 17, 1996 issue of the Belgrade periodical ARGUMENT carries an article entitled: "Interview with forensic medicine expert Dr. Zoran Stankovic." The interview is centered on Dr. Stankovic's investigation of a mass grave in Mrkonjic Grad, said to contain the remains of 181 Serb civilians killed during the capture of the town by Croatian forces in 1995.

Towards the close of the interview, however, Dr. Stankovic makes an interesting claim concerning the mine in Ljubija, said by the Western officials to have been used as a corpse-disposal site by Serb nationalist forces earlier in the war. Here is an excerpt of the article in translation:

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ARGUMENT: Mr. Stankovic, the exhumation and identification of victims' identites at Mrkonjic Grad is compelted. What is the final result of the work of your team of experts?

Dr. Stankovic: We studied two graveyard sites. The first one was Eastern Orthodox graveyard site which contained 181 victims. Out of those we identified 136 people. Among the victims 28 were older than 60 years old and 11 victims were women. The other site was Muslim graveyard. We found 6 victims there and identified 3 of them.

On victims' bodies we found wounds from fire arms and mines, then many wounds caused by dull objects. One person had an ear cut off and for two heads were cut off. 52 people had head wounds with smashed skull bones all caused by dull objects. In 170 people we found no documents on them and their pockets were cut off, their documents taken away. 67 people had no personal belongings on them and 54 people were with bare feet.

While we were working [on those two sites] another round hundred bodies were found. Some of those were civilians and women. Other team was working on those cases. The carnage is thus much greater.

In the village of Suvjan, for example, eight member family was found burned in a house. One of the victims was a paralyzed, immobile young woman.

ARGUMENT: Does that mean that the region round Mrkonjic Grad is completely researched?

Dr. Stankovic: According to data coming from [Serbian] officials there are other locations with 300 to 400 victims, especially in Jajce region [which is under Croat control].

Round village of Vinci there is a mass grave with 30 [Serbian] children. We informed IFOR about it.

ARGUMENT: There is a team of Finnish experts in Srebrenica. How do you cooperate with them?

Dr. Stankovic: They are just another prove of the bias of so called "international community". They expose their arrogance as they are searching only the truth that fits their daily political correctness. We were accused of blocking the work of the international teams. That is simply not the case. We demand only the very basic respect of procedure and order. You cannot dig without even informing authorities of where you plan to do it. Also, I believe, we should have our expert team present at Srebrenica locations. It is only fair that if the "international community" demands a cooperation from us - they should offer us some cooperation too.

ARGUMENT: What was the result of the Ljubija diggings?

Dr. Stankovic: Well there, a few months ago, top team of American experts and divers got to the site of the Ljubija mine. They came there with the best, cutting edge technology, to supposedly find 3,000 [!!!] Muslims killed by Serbs. They worked there for a long time but came back only with a skeleton of a dog! I do not think they published the results of those findings either.

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Are the Serbs so much better???

Teams of top Western forensic experts were sent by Western politicians to dig (and sniff) around Srebrenica and elsewhere in Bosnia and to search for the forecasted Serbian crime. After years of digging the teams came with far fewer bodies then claimed. Even worse - overwhelming majority of the bodies found by the Western teams were never identified.

The fact that Western experts can not identify most of the victims they found, while refusing to cooperate with the Serbs colleagues, quite probably means that many of the victims they found are - Bosnian Serbs. Some other impossible to identify bodies round Srebrenica could easily be of Al Qaeda volunteers who came to help Bosnian Muslim cause - the one of subjugating majority Christian population of Bosnia to an Islamic rule.

In the case of small Bosnian town of Mrkonjic Grad, though, there is no dispute who the victims were. Finding identity of town victims, despite the fact that they were purposely left without any documentation, turned out to be far from impossible for the Serbian experts who seem to be the only ones interested in dealing with this massacre.

Are the Serbs so much better than their Western colleagues? Or do we have a case - once and again - where Serbian "war crimes" alleged by the West are stagged (or simply invented - like in the case of Srebrenica) while the crime that Western proxies (Croat Nazis and Bosnian Islam fundamentalists) committed on the defenceless Serb population (men, women and children; young and old) is obvious and too painfully real.

If one is not simply a new type of racist - the one trained to hate the Serbs - then a parallel between Srebrenica hoax and Mrkonjic Grad reality has to be drawn.

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