Posted on 08/03/2005 8:27:29 PM PDT by zagor-te-nej
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing in which during 'Oluja' military operation by Croatian Army, during several hours only almost 270,000 Serbs were expelled from their homes in Dalmatia, Lika, Banija and Kordun. Almost 80 percents of their homes were robbed, burnt or destroyed.
The operation began in the early morning hours on August 4, 1995. It was carried out by 200,000 Croatian soldiers, 700 tanks and armoured personnel carriers, 1,800 artillery weapons, 47 combat planes and helicopters.
During 48 hours only, 2,000 Serbs were killed. From that number 1,199 were civilians, 523 women and 12 children, while 3,200 were interned and about 1,500 captured.
'Everything that was Serbian was a target, civilian objects, refugees in columns, women, children, old people', Savo Strbac, president of 'Veritas' Documentation Center says for 'Blic'.
Croatian combat jets were striking the columns of refugees on their way from Knin to Bosnia. Those not killed in air strikes died of unbearable high temperatures. The bodies of the dead were remaining along the road to Serbia.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.serbianunity.net ...
On the 04.of August 1995, Croatian armed forces, with NATO’s approval and support, in the joint forces of Croatian defense council (Hrvatsko Vijece odbrane- HVO) and BiH Army, had executed an aggression on Serb Krajina (North Dalmatia, Lika, Kordun and Banija). http://www.veritas.org.yu/avgust95en.htm
I guess you don't understand how important it was for the Clintons to see AlQaida take over Kosovo.
For the children.
False.
Around 150,000 Serbs fled before the attack, as the order was given by their own authorities to retreat with their defeated army into Serb-controlled Bosnia.
The operation began in the early morning hours on August 4, 1995. It was carried out by 200,000 Croatian soldiers, 700 tanks and armoured personnel carriers, 1,800 artillery weapons, 47 combat planes and helicopters.
Once again, False.
Around 100,000 soldiers and special police forces took part in the liberation.
There goes that word "liberation" again, yeah, private citizens were "liberated" from their private property. What a glorious victory.
Does their air force have a special medal for strafing columns of fleeing refugees, I wonder?
Dio, double your number and you have it, 200K HVO troops involved. The evac was pre-ordered but was not completed and that was what led to the chaos on the Serb side. Those RSK soldiers who disobeyed orders that came from Belgrade, if they had the supply that was prepositioned for them, would have sliced the HVO into two and halted the ground operations of the HVO. The HVO would have to redirect their focus on that group and would have bought enough time for the BSA and RSK troops to counter the offensive strike.
when you are in Glina or petrinje, see the anti-Serb destruction, it is nothing like you've seen before, even in BiH.
I wonder how the local realestate agents spun the news to their clients on how suddenly their was new property available?
A very nice place is Celinac, BiH. The small town stands alongside a small river and between two mountain ranges. Very very beautiful.
clinton Legacy Bump!
correction: there not their
There was no Croatia at that time and those Croats (ethnic mix of Avars and Slavs) that survived Muslim conquest did not control anything. And this is map of EUROPE at the death of CHARLES THE GREAT 814.
http://members.tripod.com/cafehome/gardiner814.htm
Note that Einhard the friend and biographer of Charlemagne mentions Serbs 821 as great people who control most of roman province of Dalmatia – present day Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Northey Albania.
In 15 century 3rd or 4th wave of Serbs were invited by Austrian rulers - legal owner of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia.
Right bottom corner:
http://www.spc.org.yu/Muzej/Dokumenta/dokumenta.html
Privileges and rights granted to Serbs by the Austrian emperor Leopold – 6 May 1695, for defending Christendom.
This is long story – for now let’s say that most of that land Serbs bought in gold – thus Vlaska and Draskovic Street in Zagreb and thus great envy and hatred of less capable
ROFL...
Serbinon, Serbinum, Servitium, Seruitio, Servitii, Serbitium
present day Gradiska, Republic of Srpska
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