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The former Croatian president Stjepan Mesic is just one of some 6,000 Croatian retirees receiving pensions from Serbia, the Serbian press has reported. These people used to work in Serbia and have paid contributions to the country’s fund for pension and disability insurance (PIO Fond). The director of public relations sector of the PIO Fond Jelica Timotijevic says that all of those who had worked for the presidency of the former Yugoslavia, for example – and have later become state officials and politicians in their own countries – have a right to a Serbian pension based on individual agreements between...

Hagan’s American Journal: The United Nation’s takes one step closer to world governance By William John Hagan October 14, 2005 The Houston Home Journal Warner Robins, Georgia The United States of America The United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has been a questionable entity since its inception. On the surface one would find it hard not to support an international court based on the Nuremburg Tribunal which tried Nazi Leaders after World War II. Few people on the world stage have had the fortitude to stand up and point out that the ICTY’s...

Barring a last-minute breakthrough, Croatia faces being told it cannot start EU membership talks this week as planned, because it is not fully cooperating in finding a fugitive war crimes suspect, diplomats say. Croatia, hoping to be the second former Yugoslav republic to join the European Union as early as 2007, was told in December that it could in theory start talks with Brussels on March 17 -- this Thursday. But that green light was conditional in providing "full cooperation" with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in a manhunt for fugitive general Ante Gotovina. And the...

ZAGREB : Croatian President Stipe Mesic overwhelmingly defeated his ruling conservative party rival in the election runoff, exit polls showed, securing a second five-year term in which he promised to lead the former Yugsolav republic into the European Union. After voting closed at 7:00 pm (1800 GMT), an exit poll by HTV state television gave the centrist Mesic 70.85 percent of the ballots, against just 29.15 percent for Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The first partial official results were not due until after midnight. In the first round on January 2, Mesic won 48.92...

Every few months, the Hague prosecution likes to call former or current presidents to testify against Milosevic. Today, it was Stjepan Mesic’s turn. The former Croatian president was actually glad to be able to enter the court room and confront the Accused, but the question many had in mind, since he could dish it out, could he take it? Enter Mr. Mesic Ironically, the first stage of the trial of Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, which was devoted to Kosovo, concluded on September 11. Mesic is the first head of state to testify at the tribunal. He was president of...

May. 8, 2003 Croatia plans to build monument to honor its Nazis By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - ZAGREB, Croatia The Croatian government announced Thursday it plans to buy land in southern Austria to build a monument honoring thousands of Croat Nazi troops and civilians who were killed in the aftermath of World War II. The announcement came just a few days ahead of Sunday's anniversary of the 1945 killings of tens of thousands of Croat soldiers and civilians who fled to Austria in fear of reprisals from antifascists. They gathered in Bleiburg, a small town near the then-Yugoslav border, waiting...

THE VAMPIRE NURSE OF VUKOVAR VESNA BOSANAC http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/war_crimes/vukovar/vukovar9d.html Involuntary blood taking from Vukovar Serbs In the Vukovar Hospital, which was between 30 July and 19 November 1991 managed by Dr. Vesna BOSANAC, many serious abuses of medical ethics and international law of war have been committed - from refusal to provide adequate medical treatment to wounded Serb civilians and members of the Serb territorial defense to physical liquidation. Among the gravest crimes committed in the Vukovar Hospital, which are that more serious since some perpetrators were physicians, is involuntary blood taking from Serb civilians, who were for this particular...