Posted on 09/23/2005 2:43:59 PM PDT by joan
Zagreb. 15 victims who were recently exhumed from a mass grave in Croatia and were reported Croatian, were in fact Serbian, AFP reported, citing a publication in the Croatian Globus Weekly Newspaper. The mass grave was discovered nearby Okucani, which is located 100 km southeast of Zagreb. 11 of the 15 victims have been identified as women. The issue reminds of Vice Premier Jadranka Kosor’s statement at the end of August, when he said that civilian Croatians, killed by Croatian Serbs in the war (1991-1995) were buried in the mass grave. Analysis of the remains show that the victims could possibly be Serbian, Globus newspaper wrote.
Vice Premier Kosor has stated for AFP that for now the nationality of victims is still unknown. “We will know for sure after they are identified”, she added.
Publicly claiming the bodies as a certain ethnicity before any are identified is propaganda. The Muslims do this a lot in Bosnia but often never follow up on the identities. They will be silent if the bodies turn out to be Serbs.
The former Yugoslavia-land of mass graves. Does anybody like anybody over there??
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The thing is that outside powers have always supported the non-Serbs in the wars, and now the U.S. is the current torch-carrier in all this: supporting the Croats and Balkans Muslims (and other separatists) against the Serbs.
Former major powers/players - the Ottomans, Austria-Hungary, Germans, and more - have wielded "divide and conquer" strategies on the Balkans peoples for centuries, and so by Europe and the U.S. supporting separatists, starting around 1990, things fractured around old fault lines.
And the "reconciliation" talk and policies of the international community involvement today is very fake - there's another agenda going on then their claims of being for multiethnic and multicultural communities. The peoples came together after the bigger wars of WWI and WWII much, much better and more natural than what is happening now with continued occupations and involvement by NATO.
But everyone knows only the Serbs killed civilians. The MSM said it, so it must be true.
It is as true as Islam being a religion of peace..
"Analysis of the remains show that the victims could possibly be Serbian, Globus newspaper wrote."
How would anybody know the difference between Croats and Serbs, aside from personal artifacts?
Our media must be controlled by the Muslims.
There were probably personal artifacts in the grave..such as rings, necklaces, earings, and so on.
Also, married Western Christians-such as Catholics or Protestants, including Croats-wear their wedding rings on their left hands, whereas Orthodox Christians, like Serbs, wear their bands on their right hands.
For much of the post-WWII years of the 20th century, the peoples of Yugoslavia lived and worked together, not in perfect harmony, of course, but strong enough to create an identity in which many were proud. Tito gave the new Yugoslavia its identity: one that could say "No" to Stalin, while receiving the favors of the US. It was the time of the building of the modern Yugoslavia and ethnic tensions could be controlled and sometimes transformed in the great work of rebuilding and creating. The mass graves generally are found after war. During times of relative peace, people may simply "disappear," only rarely to be found, as in the Central and South American countries (too numerous to list) that killed its own citizens during the 1980's. There you could look for mass graves and ask the same question. War unleashes horrifying atrocities; ethnic conflict can be worse but not always: see the American Civil War.
Don't you think anything like jewelry would be in a pawn shop somewhere? Or melted down and recast?
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