The Croatian government of Franco Tudjman, the erstwhile supporter of Tito's
communist regime and the current racist President of Fascist Croatia which
parades itself as the successor of the Nazi-created Independent State of Croatia
of World War II infamy, has embarked on a program of that of the Nazis in 1939.
Croatia alone is responsible for the recent violent outburst of bloodshed in
Slavonia. A truce was brokered by the UN after the bloody warfare OF 1990-1, and
the Serbs, the true victims in the Bakans, observed it scrupulously.
The Croatian Fascist government, however, utilized the truce to rearm and to
prepare for attacks against the Serbian peasants in Slavonia. In 1993, they
attacked and murdered the Serbs along the Adriatic coast, and now they have
attacked the Serbs in Slavonia. At the same time, the Bosnian Muslims have begun
attacks against the Serbs in violation of the truce agreements that thay made
under UN auspices. This is the result of the false policy of the embargo against
the Serbia which was instituted upon the demand of the U.S. The bloody strugle
in Yugoslavia has been exacerbated by that embargo. The Croats and the Bosnians
have been encouraged by the embargo to attack the Serbs.
- Enourmous amounts of money are being expended in public relations campaigns
to create a distorted picture denying the Croatian treachery and the resort to
violence. Thousands of innocent Serbs have been forced to flee their homes in
Slavonia to save their lives because of the "ethnic cleansing" by the Croatian
Fascist army. If there has not been the same extensive butchery as occurred in
1991 and in 1993, it is because the vast majority of Serbs, knowing what to
expect , fled for their very lives. Only those terrified Serbs who were too old
or too feeble were left behind in the Sebian flight, and the number murdered by
the Croats has not yet been counted.
Within the areas controlled by the Muslim Bosnians or the Croatian Fascist,
Jews are also attempting to flee. There is no flight of Jews from the Serbian
controlled areas of former Yugoslavia, only from the Bosnian and
Croatian-controlled regions. Yugoslav Jews are aware that Bosnian Muslims
provided troops for Nazi armies, and that the Croatian Ustashi, the spiritual
founders of Tudjman Croatian Republic, participated in every way possible in the
Holocaust.
Today Ustashi murderers are being rehabilitated and are being extolled as
national heroes by Tudjman despite the fact that they were among the most brutal
villains. Those villains killed Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, while conducting a
religious war against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Judaism during the Second
World War, in the name of "ethnic cleansing". Croatian cruelty during the Second
World War beggars the imagination. It equalled that of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen
in Soviet Union. They murdered innocent man, women and children with the utmost
cruelty and without remorse, and now they compound the crime by attempting to
excuse it. Indeed, they glory in their murderous conduct.
Franco Tudjman stands convicted by the words of his own mouth and by his
writings of being a vicious racists and anti-Semite. He is an unregenerate
Fascist racist and monster. Franco Tudjman is the inheritor of the infamy of
Ante Pavelic, the Poglavnik or Fuhrer of the abominable Fascist Croatia created
by the Axis after their conquest of gallant Yugoslavia.
For those who doubt the truth of the Ustashi atrocities, it is only necessary
to read the horrendous accounts by Allan A. Ryan, Jr, entitled Quiet
Neighbours. Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America, about the vile
Croatian Minister of the Interior under Pavelic, the Ustashi leader Andrija
Artukovic whom Ryan called the "Dean of Nazis" in this country. Additional
information of unbeleivable cruelty may be gleaned from Vladimir Dedijers`s book
The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican. The Croatian Massacre of Serbs
During World War II.
The horrors of Jasenovac concentration camp must not be concealed. The blood
of the hundreds of thousands who were tortured and murdered there cries out from
the ground. Tudjman is trying to destroy all evidence that such a camp ever
existed and is attempting to eliminate the graves of the martyrs. The
Jewish-Serbian Friendship Society of America, a group composed largely of
survivors of the persecution in Croatia and Bosnia, participated in the
candlelight vigil in Chicago in commemoration of the murdered Serbs, Jews and
Gypsies. Serbian Orthodox priests and Orthodox Jewish rabbis prayed for the
murdered innocents. This was organized by the newly created Jasenovac Memorial
Committee. Members of that group participated in the Yom Hashoa March of
Remembrance on April 30 and attended the memorial service at the Museum of
Tolerance.
The Jewish-Serbian Friendship Society of America, located at 283 Trino Way,
Pacific Palisades, California 90272, deserves support from all Jewish
federations and charitable individuals. They are trying to keep the memory of
the martyrs of Yugoslavia alive and to prevent a new seizure of power by the
Croatian and Bosnian Fascists who want to resume persecution. We should be
grateful to them for recalling the persecution and martyrdom of one of the most
valuable Jewish communities of the pre-Holocaust world.
The current Croatian fascist regime is actively attempting to obscure or to
belittle the murder of the Jews and Serbs. The president of the Jewish
communities in Croatia, at the ceremony held in the Jewish communal center in
Zagreb, condemned, in the strongest terms, the Croatian attempt to deny the
Holocaust. Tudjman's Croatia, the successor of the murderous Ustashi Independent
State of Croatia established under Pavelic and Artukovic, would like to erase
the very memory of Jasenovac and the other concentration camps at Stara
Gradiska, Koprivnica, Gospic, Jadovno, Kruscica, and on the Island of Pag.
Reborn Fascist Croatia, torn from the heart of Yugoslavia, is bloody reminder
of the Nazi hatred of democratic pre-War Yugoslavia and Serbia. The Germans, led
by Heinrich Genscher and Helmuth Kohl, played the leading role in the
disintegration of Yugoslavia. That was a war aim of the Nazis during the Second
World War. They achieved it in 1991. Americans must no longer be silent about
the destruction of Yugoslavia. It was a crime to destroy the Yugoslav state
which had a democratic tradition before the Nazi invasion. It was the Serbs who
rose successfully in rebellion against the puppet, royal government that wanted
to serve the Nazis. For that act, the Germans took vangeance, and
Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to memorialize the Serbian
heroism.
The fragmentation of Yugoslavia has been disaster that has resulted in rivers
of blood being shed. Perhaps it is time to concede the failure of the
destruction of Yugoslavia. Perhaps we should act to preserve the unity of the
largest possible part of Yugoslavia. We might then restrain the atavistic
brutality of the Croats Ustashi who are even now trying to erase the physical
remains of Jasenovac camp where hundreds of thousands were brutally
slaughtered.