Posted on 02/10/2002 10:31:32 AM PST by joan
Seriously????
I understand that Croats destroyed the Jasenovac Monument, the local museum as well as the various artifacts contained within. Did any of those serve to symbolize the "communist opression of Croats"?
So I take it you don't deny that Croatian media prefaced every reference to Serbs or the Yugoslav Army with "Serbian-Communist-Chetnik-evildoer-occupation" forces from 1991 on?
You claim it wasn't destroyed by Croats? That's certainly not what Serbs living in and around Jasenovac saw. There's very little doubt given the fact that Croats destroyed over 200 churches and 20,000 homes in the republic of Croatia (80 churches in Slavonija alone) that the documents rescued by fleeing Serbs would have been destroyed. The only doubt exists in the mind of apologists for Franjo Tudjman and his effort to bury Croatian Nazi soldiers at the site of the Jasenovac memorial. In fact, visitors to Jasenovac after the most massive single ethnic cleansing operation in the former Yugoslavia could have gone to Jasenovac for years after the war and witnessed various documents sitting about the grounds of what used to be the Jasenovac memorial. Any attempt to ask why these documents were not being appropriately treated would simply have been "looking for trouble. Are you saying
Like the Jasenovac Memorial, the Nikola Tesla Museum was destroyed by Croats? How was this a symbol of Communist oppression?
Also, almost all of the Cyrillic documents in all major archives in Croatia have been systematically destroyed by the government of Croatia. How were these documents symbols of Communist oppression?
What do you think of Tudjman's plan to re-bury Croat Nazis at the Jasenovac Memorial?
You claim it wasn't destroyed by Croats? That's certainly not what Serbs living in and around Jasenovac saw. There's very little doubt given the fact that Croats destroyed over 200 churches and 20,000 homes in the republic of Croatia (80 churches in Slavonija alone) that the documents rescued by fleeing Serbs would have been destroyed. The only doubt exists in the mind of apologists for Franjo Tudjman and his effort to bury Croatian Nazi soldiers at the site of the Jasenovac memorial. In fact, visitors to Jasenovac after the most massive single ethnic cleansing operation in the former Yugoslavia could have gone to Jasenovac for years after the war and witnessed various documents sitting about the grounds of what used to be the Jasenovac memorial. Any attempt to ask why these documents were not being appropriately treated would simply have been "looking for trouble. Are you saying
Like the Jasenovac Memorial, the Nikola Tesla Museum was destroyed by Croats? How was this a symbol of Communist oppression?
Also, almost all of the Cyrillic documents in all major archives in Croatia have been systematically destroyed by the government of Croatia. How were these documents symbols of Communist oppression?
What do you think of Tudjman's plan to re-bury Croat Nazis at the Jasenovac Memorial?
Shouldn't have Serb homes, businesses and churches also remained untouched then, because they "served a purpose other than symbolizing the communist oppression of Croats"?
You still haven't answered my question though, wasn't the Brotherhood-Unity Highway similarly a Communist monument? Never mind the fact that it can be used for transport. Also, was the Jasenovac Memorial a monument "symbolizing the communist oppression of Croats" or wasn't it?
...But enough about Al Gore...
TANJUG can't be listened to. It's a press agency. RTV Beograd is defunct; has been for a decade.
Anyway, what do you have against TANJUG? It's a government-owned media house - just like BBC. You don't seem to hold any grudges against BBC...
Yeah, I am a Serbian chauvinist. So much so that three of my girflriends were non-Serb, and one of my best friends was a Slovak. I live secluded here in Canada; We Serbs have built a compound here in town and we don't let non-Serbs in, or even near. All 15,000 of us, man! It's awesome! We have a canal around the compound and we keep (hungry) aligators handy. Better safe than sorry.
We are also petitioning the City gov't to declare the zone "Serb only".
Seriously, moljac Tropoljac - I don't even know what a chauvinist is. I know the meaning of the word but have never in my life experienced chauvinism. That's a Croatian thing. You always accuse us of having some (negative) character traits so prevalent in your (Croat) society.
I've gotta go now. Band practice.
Francetica good guy
explain further pluz......
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