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It's fairly common knowledge that Croats always espoused a so-called 33/33/33 "solution" for kraina Serbs, i.e. kill a third of them, convert a third to catholicism, and deport/ethnically cleanse/remove the remaining third.

Common knowledge? Puh-leeze! With whom is this common knowledge? This is racism pure and simple. You're saying that it's common knowledge that Croats are "genocidal". Please retract this statement.

I can't help the truth appearing as racism to racists. How many sources would you like on this one? For instance:

http://www.tenc.net/docs/backin.htm

[Start Quote] "Slavko Kvaternik explained [in a radio program on April 10, 1941, the day the 'Independent State of Croatia' was formed] how a pure Croatia should be built - by forcing one third of the Serbs to leave Croatia, one third to convert to Catholicism, and one third to be exterminated. Soon Ustasha bands initiated a bloody orgy of mass murder of Serbs unfortunate enough not to have converted or left Croatia on time. "The enormity of such criminal behavior shocked even the conscience of German commanders, but Pavelic had Hitler's personal support for such actions which resulted in the loss of the lives of hundreds of thousands of Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina." [End quote]

'Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations,' Europe, edition 1995, page 91, entry: 'Croatia.'

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2594/pavelic.htm

When Hitler conquered Yugoslavia, he set up a puppet government in Croatia called the Ustachi, headed by Roman Catholic Ante Pavelic.Pavelic immediately set about establishing an ethnically and religiously pure Catholic Croatian state. Along with the Jews and Gypsies, all non-Roman Catholics were to be purged from the land.

The largest unwelcome group was about two million Eastern Orthodox Seths. Stepinac and other Catholic leaders gave their blessing to the 'ethnic cleansing.' The leaders bragged that they would kill a third of them, convert a third to Roman Catholicism, and run the other third out of the country.

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/mar/croserbs.htm

Ustase leader Ante Pavelic launched anti-Serb policy of massacres, expulsions, and forced conversions to Catholicism against Serbs under Croatian control -- population of the Croatian state was about 6,300,000, about one third of them Serbs. Croatia= own admitted policy towards Serbs was to convert one third, deport one third, and >eliminate= the remaining third. All Serbian Orthodox schools were closed, the Cyrillic alphabet was outlawed, and Serbs were ordered to wear colored armbands. Estimates o number of Serbs killed range from 300,000 to over a million, with numbers between 500,000 - 700,000 being generally accepted. About 50,000 Jews and 20,000 Gypsies were also killed under the Ustase

[crazykatz]

According to a report in April,1946 from the US Army Counter Intelligence Corp, one Mile Budak a utashi cabinet minister, publicly announced the fate of two million Serbs in Croatia: "one third were to be killed, another deported and the rest forcibly converted to Catholicism."

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I think that a Croatian woman that I know who are married to a Serb said it best....when she said,

"I was treated like dirt by my fellow Croatians, including my own parents, when I married my husband, 22 years ago....but my husband's family and friends greeted me with open arms."

She and her husband and the 3 kids are here in the USA now because when the war came they had to flee from Dalmatica...they were told leave or die!

This family is one of the biggest supporters of the new Serbian Orthodox in our city...that lady is a great cook and is ALWAYS helping at the fund raisers. And, one more thing....about 40 of the families are mixed, Serbian and Croatian....the other 60 families are Serbs from Bosnia.

It is an impressive group of refugees!!