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To: misterrob
Let's hope so too but I'm just waiting for the Serb apologists to come out of the woodwork and deny the whole thing happened.

Sort of pathetic that FR actually has a Slobo fan club.

At least for this one they can't trot out the "they were just a bunch of Muslims" line.

4 posted on 11/15/2005 1:21:35 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist
One of the few benefits of Communism was that it kept a lid on the blood lust of the various groups in Yugoslavia. Once that went away the feud was back on.
5 posted on 11/15/2005 1:25:29 PM PST by misterrob
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To: Strategerist
Sort of pathetic that FR actually has a Slobo fan club.

FR doesn't, actually. It only exists in the minds of the Serb-hating bigots that divide their time between giving quiet support to the Muhammedans and fluffing Mr. Soros.

6 posted on 11/15/2005 1:47:39 PM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: Strategerist
The fact the Kosovars were Moslems doesn't change the fact that Milosevic was a tyrant who was most popular when he committed genocide against Croats, Kosovars and Bosnians. Thankfully Serbs saw the light and removed him.

I'm not a bigot as another poster has suggested but I also don't buy into this "Serbs are victims of history" BS - the same sort of BS used to garner support for the Irish Republican Army.
7 posted on 11/15/2005 2:59:15 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (I hate hippies - Eric Cartman)
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To: Strategerist
Name: Mara Jovičić Popović

Date of Birth: July 1901

Place of Birth: Foča

Mara was one of six children born to Serbian parents. The family lived in the small town of Foča in the region of Bosnia. Like her parents, Mara was baptized in the Serbian Orthodox faith. She grew up in Foča and in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, where she completed secondary school. In 1930 she married Rajko Popović, a circuit court judge. The couple had no children.

1933–39: In 1934 Rajko completed a judicial tour of duty in Foča, and the couple moved to Sarajevo. Mara and Rajko were Serbian nationalists. At that time, the Serbs controlled Bosnia and the Yugoslav central government.

1940–44: The Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. In May Bosnia was placed under the rule of the fascist Croatian puppet-state. Mara’s husband feared capture by the Croatian police, and he fled to Serbia. Mara remained in Sarajevo, where she lived in the same building as her niece, Mirjana, and older sister, Jovanka.

In 1944 Croatian police arrested Mara, Mirjana, and Jovanka because they were prominent Serbian nationalists. After refusing to convert to Roman Catholicism, Mara was deported to Jasenovac, a Croatian-run concentration camp.

Mara perished in Jasenovac in late 1944. She was 43 years old.

15 posted on 11/15/2005 8:53:04 PM PST by Lion in Winter (The older I get the more I want CROATIANS/BOSNIANS TO OWN UP TO the love of THEIR NAZI PAST)
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To: Strategerist
Kosta (Kojo) Naprta

Born Podum, Yugoslavia

1892

Kosta was the oldest of five children born to Serbian Orthodox parents in a poor farming village. Podum was on the slopes of Mount Um in the Croatian part of Yugoslavia. After finishing secondary school, Kosta emigrated to the United States. But when World War I broke out in 1914, he returned to Podum. In 1920 he married Anka, a Serb woman from his village, and they raised eight children.

1933-39: Kosta would read the newspaper to his friends and neighbors who could not read. He supported his family by raising food crops on his rocky farm and by doing odd jobs. His children all attended school. Podum's Serbs attended Orthodox church services every Sunday. They had good relations with their Catholic Croat neighbors in the larger village of Otocac, two miles away.

1940-44: On April 6, 1941, the Germans invaded Yugoslavia. Four days later, Croatian fascists came to power, aided by the Germans. The Croatians began pogroms against Serbs. Many Serbs fled their villages; some joined Serbian or Communist resistance groups. Kosta remained in Podum with his family.

One evening in March 1944, a German officer was found dead on Podum's outskirts. The next day, Croatian fascists and German soldiers burned the village and killed all the Serbian men in the village they could find.

That same day, as the Naprtas stood in the snow watching their house burn, a German officer fired six bullets into Kosta, killing him in front of his family.

20 posted on 11/15/2005 9:16:20 PM PST by Lion in Winter (The older I get the more I want CROATIANS/BOSNIANS TO OWN UP TO the love of THEIR NAZI PAST)
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To: Strategerist

I'll take Slobo and the Serbs any day over the Muslims. France was being torched by these pests. Only idiots want to see more Muslims in Europe and more Muslim nations in Europe.

Never buy into Islam and the lies of Muhammad in the Koran. Caveat emptor!


42 posted on 11/16/2005 4:32:51 PM PST by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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