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24 June 2008 Zagreb _ A former US ambassador to Croatia has accused Zagreb of plotting and sanctioning the exodus of Serbs in 1995 to create an "ethnically clean" country. Peter Galbraith told The Hague war crimes trial of three Croatian generals, that the leadership headed by late President Franjo Tudjman used ‘Operation Storm’ to ‘cleanse’ Croatia of Serbs. “Croatian authorities either ordered or allowed a mass destruction of the Serb property in former (Serb-held region of) Krajina to prevent the return of the population. I consider that to have been a thought through policy,” he said, testifying at the...

Banjaluka, 21 May (AKI) – Al-Qaeda and the Muslim fundamentalist Wahabi movement's operatives have been smuggling weapons and explosives into neighbouring Croatia, Bosnian daily Nezavisne novine reported on Wednesday. Quoting Bosnian security sources, the paper said huge quantities of weapons and explosives have been smuggled into the areas of Croatia with sizeable Muslim population in recent months. The weapons were shipped to the Croatian capital Zagreb, nearby Karlovac and the Adriatic port of Split, according to a document from the Bosnian security agency, quoted by the paper. The document said the operation has been masterminded by Bosnian Muslims Vladimir Popilovski,...

What Serbia's election says about the European Union's enlargement A BRITISH tabloid set a high standard for bombast when it once took credit for the re-election of a Tory government with the headline: “It's The Sun Wot Won It”. This week European Union leaders were taking credit for another election upset: the unexpected success of the pro-European coalition led by the Serbian president, Boris Tadic, in the general election on May 11th. The Serbs had “clearly chosen Europe,” said the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner. Jan Marinus Wiersma, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, declared that the election was...

BELGRADE, Serbia-Fourteen former Serb fighters went on trial Thursday on charges that they killed 70 Croat civilians in 1991 after forcing some of them to walk through a minefield. The group includes former Yugoslav army soldiers and paramilitary fighters suspected of "torture, inhuman treatment and killing" of the Croats in a border town in Croatia during the war there. Croatian investigations have discovered dozens of bodies in mass graves in the village of Lovas, the remains of people apparently killed in October and November 1991 when Serbs controlled the area. The Serbian prosecutors charged the Serb fighters with killing 22...

Prior to the presentation of defense, the last piece of evidence was examined at the trial of generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac. It was the statement given to the ICTY by a Croatian soldier. As protected witness he gave an account of how he was covering up the crimes committed during the Medak Pocket Operation. He was burying the mutilated bodies of the Serb civilians and prisoners of war. In his statement he said he thought the first accused Rahim Ademi was responsible, as the latter was in command of the Gospic Military District at the relevant time. The...

17 April 2008 | 12:05 | Source: Tanjug ZAGREB -- Stjepan Mesic has criticized the Croatian parliament’s decision to spend more money on the commemoration for Bleiburg victims than Jasenovac victims. “The fact is, not one Jasenovac victim was to blame for the Bleiburg victims, but a lot of Bleiburg victims were guilty for a lot of victims at Jasenovac,” said the Croatian president, stressing that the excuse that Jasenovac had received money earlier and Bleiburg had not, did not wash. A commemoration for Second World War war crimes in Yugoslavia should be held in Jasenovac because it was the...

Melbourne's Katarina Zrinski restaurant held a celebration this past weekend to honor World War II Croatian leader Ante Pavelic, whose genocidal policies led to the deaths of 400,000 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. The restaurant is attached to the local Croatian club. The event honoring the head of the Croatian fascist Ustasha movement and the leader of Nazi-allied Croatia was an "outrageous affront" both to his victims and to any persons of morality and conscience who oppose racism and genocide, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter and Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff said on Wednesday. According to local press reports, a...

The soldier of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, led by Mladen Kruljac, were surprised by the fact that Bush shook hands will all 50 of them.ZAGREB, CROATIA - As a symbolic sign of support and gratitude, American President George Bush, wanted to spend last part of his visit in Croatia by taking photographs with the Croatian soldiers who are taking part in the ISAF peace mission in Afghanistan. Before taking pictures in front of the American presidential airplane Air Force One, President Bush shook hands with all 50 soldiers who, all together with the Croatian diplomatic delegation, came to Zagreb’s...

Thousands filled St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb, Croatia today to hear President Bush and their own Prime Minister Sanader speak on the second day of the president’s visit to their country. (Transcript) President Bush: Laura, who has joined me today, and I are proud to stand on the soil of an independent Croatia. (Applause.) Our countries are separated by thousands of miles, but we're united by a deep belief in God and the blessings of liberty He gave us. And today, on the edge of the great Adriatic, we stand together as one free people. (Applause.) After meeting with...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryApril 5, 2008 President's Radio Address   President's Radio Address  Audio  En Español       In Focus: NATOTHE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I'm speaking to you from Europe, where I attended the NATO summit and witnessed the hopeful progress of the continent's youngest democracies. The summit was held in Romania, one of the 10 liberated nations that have joined the ranks of NATO since the end of the Cold War. After decades of tyranny and oppression, today Romania is an important member of an international alliance dedicated to liberty, and it is setting a bold example for other...

ZAGREB, Croatia: U.S. President George W. Bush was warmly welcomed by the government in Croatia on Friday and he praised the ex-Yugoslav country as a trusted ally. But his opponents used the occasion to protest his foreign policies. Bush came to Zagreb from a NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, where Croatia was invited to join the alliance, one of the government's top goals. "We celebrate your invitation to become one of America's closest allies," Bush said in a toast to President Stipe Mesic. "We're so proud of our relationship," Bush said. Croatia's government sees Bush's two-day visit as a clear...

April 3, 1996 Ronald H. Brown, the U.S. secretary of commerce, is killed along with 32 other Americans when their U.S. Air Force plane crashes into a mountain near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn region.

Croatia’s recognition of Kosovo has more to do with a desire to please Washington than responsible regional politics, writes Marinko Čulić. In less than the two months since Kosovo became independent, Croatia has been flooded with so many wrong conclusions and theses that they have already started to create a false parallel reality. This is not to say that unforgettable political statements have not been made before, especially during Tudjman’s time, when, for example, the thesis of Croatia as the ‘bulwark of Christianity’ shook the western part of ex-Yugoslavia, and almost the country itself. We thought we had left this...

March 28th, 2008 Zagreb, March 28 (CP) – Retired Croatian army general Ivan Korade is being looked for by some 300 police special forces as he is believed to be involved in the killing of four people in Croatia’s Zagorje region. Ret. Gen. Ivan Korade, 44, known for his short temper and many incidents over the years has gone missing after bodies of people linked to him in some way had been found in two villages, one of which he has a home in. The first body was found in the late hours of Wednesday in a weekend home and...

Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary to soon recognise Kosovo: reports Three countries bordering Serbia -- Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary -- could shortly recognise Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, Croatian dailies reported Tuesday. The Zagreb government was expected to recognise Kosovo on Wednesday along with Bulgaria and Hungary, after the breakaway province declared independence from Serbia last month, said the newspaper Jutarnji List. Citing sources close to the government, Vecernji List, Croatia’s largest circulation daily, also reported Zagreb would recognise Kosovo’s independence on the same day as Budapest and Sofia. The decision was likely to be made this week, possibly at a government...

The Hague, 11 March (AKI) – Three Croatian generals went on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday for crimes allegedly committed against Serb civilians in 1995. Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak, and Mladen Markac are the first Croatian officers to be tried for crimes committed in the operation, Storm, in August 1995. More than 350 Serb civilians were killed, thousands of homes were destroyed and up to 250,000 Serbs were deported from the country, prosecutor Alan Tieger told the court. He said he would prove that the three generals were part of a “joint...

24 January 2008 | 15:19 | Source: Tanjug SARAJEVO -- The Bosnian HDZ has presented Ivo Sanader a proposal whereby Bosnia-Hercegovina would be split into 4 federal units. During yesterday’s one-hour meeting, President of the Bosnian branch of the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) Dragan Čović and the Croatian prime minister discussed the Kosovo crisis and its possible bearing on the situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina, as well as relations between the Bosnian HDZ and HDZ 1990, reported the Bosnian HDZ public relations department. “Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs should transform Bosnia-Hercegovina into a decentralized, democratic, legal and social state, made up of federal...

Zagreb /23/01/ 11:51 Abu Hamza, a Syrian-born Islamic fighter who fought in Bosnia during 1992-1995 war, faces deportation and must leave BiH within next 15 days, Croatian media said. The same sources say Hamza, the informal leader of the former mujahideen community in the central Bosnian village of Bocinja, must be handed over to his homeland Syria or deported to Croatia, the country where he stayed before arriving in Bosnia. BiH TV said Bosnian court overturned Hamza's appeal on Tuesday. The appealed the Bosnian authorities' decision not to grant him an asylum. Abu Hamza was also stripped of Bosnian citizenship....

Zagreb, 14 Jan. (AKI) – The leader of minority Serbs in Croatia, Milorad Pupovac, said on Monday the formation of the country’s new government was an historic moment in the country's 16 years of independence. Pupovac, who as head of the Independent Serb Democratic Party (SDSS), became deputy vice-premier in prime minister Ivo Sanader’s government on Saturday. He said it was an important achievement in overcoming the traumas of Croatia’s war of secession from the former Yugoslavia in 1991-1995. “It is a historic moment because it is the first time since the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and the existence...

Croatian interior minister Ivica Kirin has resigned after being pictured on a boar hunt with a war crimes suspect. "I... offer my apology to all those that might have been harmed," Mr Kirin said in a resignation letter. Croatian newspapers published pictures of him out hunting before Christmas with former police chief Mladen Markac, who is accused of massacring Serbs. ... Mr Markac, 52, is accused with several other former security figures with involvement in a plan to drive ethnic Serbs from the Krajina region in 1995, when he was commander of police special forces. More than 150 Serb civilians...

LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - England's Euro 2008 hopes finally disappeared at Wembley on Wednesday when they lost 3-2 to already-qualified Croatia having fought their way back from 2-0 down to briefly taste the draw they needed to go through. The home crowd was stunned after eight minutes when Scott Carson, controversially chosen in goal after making his debut in a friendly only last week, allowed a speculative long-range shot by Niko Kranjcar to skid off past him and into the net, and it looked all over when Ivica Olic doubled the lead six minutes later. England got level with...

The European Union wants Hashim Thaci, the former guerrilla leader who looks set to lead the government that emerges from Saturday's polls, to avoid any rash moves that could provoke Serbia and its ally Russia. Noting a December 10 deadline for ending negotiations on the future status of the ethnic Albanian-majority province, EU foreign ministers called on Thaci to let the talks run their course, and do nothing to jeopardize international support. "Kosovo should have her independence (but) it shouldn't be an unmanaged unilateral declaration," said Britain's European affairs minister Jim Murphy. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said: "We need...

DETROIT A 42-year-old Canadian accused of war crimes against civilians in his native Croatia is expected to remain in a U.S. jail cell at least until Tuesday.

Retired Croatian colonel Marko Jagetic says that 70 bodies of Serb civilians were collected after the campaign Medacki Dzep. Retired Croatian Army medical corps colonel Marko Jagetic testified at the trial of generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac. He said that, after the campaign Medacki Dzep, more than 70 corpses of Serb civilians were collected in nearby villages and that many of them had marks that indicated torture and massacre. - Almost all the executed [people] were civilians and no weapons or documents were found on any of them – said Jagetic, who was the army doctor in charge of...

... "If you stole a car today you would get a harsher sentence than what they got for the biggest crime that was committed here in the past 50 years," he said. ...

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Zagreb, 31 August (AKI) – Croatia on Friday held a day of national mourning after six firemen died fighting a forest blaze on the central Adriatic archipelago of Kornati, local media reported. The tragedy occurred Thursday night when a forest fire encircled the firemen fighting a blaze, killing six and seriously injuring another seven. The ages of three of those killed ranged from 17 to 18 years old. Another 14 firemen escaped with light burns, the reports said. Prime minister Ivo Sanader and President Stipe Mesic called for an investigation whether the fire was started deliberately and asked for severe...

<p>Nine years of shoe-leather reporting, nine years of doggedness, nine years of bucking an unhelpful bureaucracy took J. Robert Lunney to the deck of an aircraft carrier off the coast of Croatia.</p> <p>This is a Memorial Day tale, though the events occurred before the observance yesterday. It is a Memorial Day tale because it is about remembrance. And honor. And duty.</p>

11 August 2007 | 11:22 | Source: FoNet PRIŠTINA -- A Croat-owned house burnt to the ground Friday, in a village near Lipljan, Kosovo. The fire caused no injuries. Marija Palić, who owns the house, has lived in Croatia for the past fifteen years. KFOR troops helped put out the fire that completely destroyed the house. Kosovo police (KPS) spokesman Veton Elshani said the investigation was ongoing to determine whether the fire was an accident or the work of arsonists. The village of Janjevo, where the fire happened, was the largest ethnic Croat settlement in Kosovo. The mining community used...

The connection between the Islamofacists and the NAZI's can no longer be denied. They (Bosnian Muslims & Albanian Muslims) even revived the old infamous ISLAMIC-NAZI WAFFEN SS TERRORIST HANDZAR DIVISION well known for it's savage brutality towards the Jews, Christians, and Gypsies during World War. This is the same group of people the US government now backs in the Balkans. This is a pro-Al-Qaeda policy put in place by the Clinton Administration and foolishly continued by the Bush State Department.We are currently aiding and abetting the same exact genocidal side that the NAZI Germans did back in World War 2...

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recently reported about Canadian officers being frustrated by inaction over On March 27, 2006, Taylor wrote again about the Medak Pocket slaughter in Croatia: “[...] Over 200 Serbian inhabitants of the Medak Pocket were slaughtered in a grotesque manner (the bodies of female rape victims were found after being burned alive). Our traumatized troops who buried the grisly remains were encouraged to collect evidence and were assured that the perpetrators would be brought to justice.... “Nevertheless in 1995, Ceku, by then trained by U.S. instructors as a general of artillery, was still at large. In fact,...

Received this morning from Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Director Efraim Zuroff (bold emphasis added): “Wiesenthal Center Expresses Outrage At Massive Outburst of Nostalgia for Croatian Fascism at Zagreb Rock Concert”:Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today expressed its sense of outrage and disgust in the wake of a massive show of fascist salutes, symbols and uniforms at a rock concert by popular ultra-nationalist Croatian singer “Thompson” attended by 60,000 people in Zagreb last night. In a letter sent today to Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, the Center’s chief Nazi-hunter Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff noted the presence of Croatian dignities, including...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs of murder, torture and persecution Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia. Judges said Milan Martic, 52, was responsible for hundreds of murders from 1991 when Serbs in the Krajina region of northeastern Croatia rebelled and set up a breakaway ministate until 1995 when Croatian forces recaptured the area. He also was convicted of ordering two days of indiscriminate cluster bomb shelling of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in May 1995...

Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic and Mufti Sevko Omerbasic laid foundations for the building of a memorial outside the Zagreb Mosque in tribute to the fallen defenders of Muslim ethnicity. On the occasion the two officials recalled all Bosniaks who took Croatia’s side in 1991. There were almost 25,000 Bosniaks under arms, most of them citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many of them still have not been granted Croatian citizenship, 1,100 were killed and as many were wounded, including 150 disabled.

Belgrade, 30 May (AKI) - Serbia’s special prosecutor for war crimes on Wednesday ordered the detention of twelve people on suspicion of having committed war crimes against Croatian civilians in October 1991, during the war following Croatia's secession from former Yugoslavia. The prosecution said in a statement that during two and a half years of investigations more than 50 people have been questioned "and extensive material evidence has been collected". It said that four members of the former Yugoslav Army, civilians and members of a paramilitary group “Dusan Silni” were suspected of “torturing, inhumane treatment and killing 70 civilians” in...

The problem of Croats in Bosnia is that, dissatisfied with their position, they emigrated, which could happen to Serbs, says Dodik. After returning from the United States, where, together with the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, Haris Silajdzic, he held talks with American officials, the Serb Presidency member, Milorad Dodik, clearly stated that entity voting could not be annulled and the name of Republika Srpska could not be changed. -Entity voting cannot be put in question in BH because that would mean the disruption of a balance that was set up by the Dayton Agreement and would lead to...

Croat replaces nationalist as Serb parliament speaker May 23, 2007 9:46 AM BELGRADE, Serbia-Serbian lawmakers elected a pro-Western parliament speaker on Wednesday to replace an ultranationalist whose appointment earlier this month triggered outrage at home and abroad. Oliver Dulic, a 32-year-old doctor from the reformist Democratic Party, was elected by a vote of 136-98 in the 250-member assembly. Dulic's election sidelines the Radical Party's Tomislav Nikolic, who briefly served as parliament speaker two weeks ago as a deadline neared for the formation of a government following January's elections. Nikolic's election to the country's No. 2 post sparked fears that the...

By Vivien Schweitzer and Matthew Westphal 21 May 2007 A member of the Dubrovnik city council broke into a concert by the city's symphony orchestra earlier this month, threatened the guest conductor, and attempted to strangle and then head-butted the orchestra's chief executive, reports the website Javno.hr. The incident happened on May 11 outside the Knezev Dvor, the 15th-century Rector's Palace whose atrium is often used for performances. The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kristijan Rista Savic of Wiesbaden, Germany, was playing for about 235 guests, when Marko Vuletic, a city councilor for the HSP (Croatian Party of Rights, a...

The SNSD suggested that Bosnia-Herzegovina be divided into three federal units, with one of the constitutive people dominant in each. The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), a Bosnian party with Milorad Dodik at the helm, has suggested the following: Bosnia should be organised as a federal state, divided into three federal units, they being Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzeg-Bosnia. The proposal was presented by Rajko Vasic, member of the SNSD main committee, at yesterday’s news conference. Ethnically cleansed regions The Bosnian federal unit would encompass the Una-Sana, Central Bosnian, Zenica-Doboj, Bosnia-Podrinje, Tuzla and Sarajevo cantons. Herzeg-Bosnia would get the...

NewsweekBosnia: Digging Up the Secrets of the Dead By Ginanne Brownell Web Exclusive May 11, 2007 The genocidal massacres of Srebrenica took place more than a decade ago, but Kathryne Bomberger relives them every day. As the director general of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), Bomberger spends a good portion of her days visiting mass graves. Another grim stop: the Podrinje Identification Project (PIP) in Tuzla, Bosnia. Specially built to house recovered remains of Srebrenica victims, it is filled from floor to ceiling with body bags and thousands of bones. There are also poignant personal items like clothing,...

I didn't find a great picture of these on the Web. The couple below are a start. The link describes them a bit. Apparently the waters are charged with calcium and carbonate, so that the mineral is precipitating and forming dams while at the same time the water flow is eroding the dams. Very interesting! Historically, this is where the first shots of the Yugoslavian splintering war were fired. Plitvice Lakes are a UNESCO World Heritage site. This last one is reduced size (and the left side is clearly taken from the same vantage point as the one above). Click...

Canberra/Zagreb, 12 April (AKI) - An Australian Court has decided to extradite Dragan Vasiljkovic, also known as Captain Dragan, accused of having committed war crimes in Croatia during the 1990s. Vasiljkovic, a Serb, has 15 days to appeal the decision in Australia's Federal Court, where his lawyer Bradley Slowgrove said proceedings were already under way. "There’s more litigation to come. There’s already other litigation afoot in the federal court which embraces essential issues in this case”, Slowgrove told reporters in Sydney. Croatia holds Vasiljkovic, 52, responsible for torturing and killing Croat soldiers and civilians, as well as killing a foreign...

Bosnia arrests two Muslims over war crimes Reuters AlertNet, UK The two men are the first Muslims arrested in connection with crimes against Croats in wartime detention camps in Bugojno, where dozens of Croat civilians ...

Veljko Kadijevic, became an advisor to the military coalition in Iraq, for which he allegedly gained immunity from the Hague Kadijevic does not have a permanent function in Pentagon, Blitz's source close to BIA (Military Security Agency) said. - The information that he offers is not of a crucial importance. But still, such kind of service can bring profit of up to million and half euro – Blitz writes. The daily claims that Kadijevic has since 2003 been living on Florida and that he was supposed to help the coalition forces to find secret, military bunkers of the former Iraqi...

March 05, 2007 9:44 AM ZAGREB, Croatia AP -Croatia's Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court decision convicting eight former soldiers for torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime prison. The high court said in rejecting the appeal that the defense's demands, that the men be liberated, shown leniency or granted a retrial, had no grounds. Last year, a southern district court sentenced the men to six to eight years in prison for war crimes, including the torture and killings of ethnic Serbs and Yugoslav army officers at Split's Lora military prison during the Serbo-Croat war here in 1991. That...

ZAGREB -- Legal representative Ivan Šimonović says Croatia should swap charges against FRY for settlement. “My personal opinion is that if the key claims in the lawsuit can be obtained with an out-of-court settlement, we should not press further with the trial�, said Šimonović, Croatian representative before the International Court of Justice in the Hague. He said these claims primarily pertained to clearly defining responsibilities for the plight and suffering in Croatia, punishing all who are guilty of committing war crimes, determining the truth about the fate of missing persons and returning Croatia’s cultural treasures. Croatia filed charges against the...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the most spectacular soccer players ever, comes from the infamous, Muslim dominated area of Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden's third biggest city. He presently plays for the major European club of Inter Milan and has formerly been contracted by Juventus, Ajax and Malmö FF among others. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, known as "Ibra" to Italian soccer fans, is one of the very few Muslim immigrants from the Malmö region who've made major success in any area of life (another exception is Hip hop artist Timbuktu - not especially well known in the US though). Many Rosengård Muslims strive to...

UN judge reaffirms 3 Croat generals to go on trialFebruary 11, 2007 1:53 PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands-A judge at the U.N. war crimes tribunal reaffirmed at a hearing Friday that three Croatian generals will go on trial on May 7, unless requests for the dismissal of the cases are granted before then. The suspects are Gen. Ante Gotovina, formerly the top officer in the Croatian army, and generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac. Prosecutors accuse them of involvement in a "joint criminal enterprise" to drive Serbs from the Krajina region of southern Croatia in a campaign of murder and persecution....

Released : Friday, February 02, 2007 2:47 PM LONG-simmering tensions over the maritime border between Croatia and Slovenia have resurfaced over the last week, writes John McLaughlin. Slovenia has lodged a formal diplomatic protest over Croatia's extension of an offshore drilling contract for state-controlled oil company INA, and Croatia has sharply rejected Slovenia's position. In its diplomatic note, Slovenia protested strongly against the award on January 5 of a five-year extension to INA's existing oil and gas drilling contract in the northern Adriatic. Slovenia argued that the move amounted to a unilateral grab by Croatia of a sea area that...

Jan. 26 events will commemorate attack by Croatian nationalists By Jeff White Staff Writer, The Prague Post January 24th, 2007 When Zdenko Kubík thinks about the day of the crash, what he remembers most is the sound the bodies made as they fell to the earth — a rustling overhead, like wind snapping at canvas. "I was outside, and it was just after 5 p.m.," he recalls. "I heard the engine of the plane, and then some banging. Then the sounds got louder." Today, in a grove of birch trees outside the small village of Srbská Kamenice, north Bohemia, a...