Edmonton Journal (Letters): Less rewriting of Serb past - by Amb. James Bissett

 

Friday, May 11, 2012, 4:45 PM Note:  Many thanks to former Amb. Bissett for taking the time to reply to Srdja Pavlovic's piece of lying propaganda, published the other day.     Below is Mr. Bissett's letter:    ...  Perhaps the professor should do more research and less rewriting.   [ Amen to that! ]     http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/letters/Less+rewriting+Serb+past/6604892/story.html   Less rewriting of Serb past   Edmonton Journal May 11, 2012 Re: "Rewriting the past a bad idea; Don't use Nazi-era figures for modern agendas," by Srdja Pavlovic, Ideas, May 9. If Srdja Pavlovic thinks rewriting the past is a bad idea he shouldn't do it. His condemnation of Serbian guerrilla leader Dragoslav Mihailovic as a convicted war criminal and Nazi sympathizer is a blatant rewrite of history and contrary to the facts. Mihailovic was one of the first resistance leaders in Europe to fight the Nazi occupiers. He did this when Muslims in Bosnia were enlisting by the thousands into the 13th Waffen SS Division Handschar and the Croatian puppet leader, Anton Pavlic, and his fascist Ustashi were slaughtering the Jewish, Roma, and Serbian populations of Croatia. During the early months after the Nazi invasion, only Mihailovic's Serbs were fighting the occupiers. His communist enemies and the ones who brought him before a typical communist show trial after the war and executed him did not begin to fight the Germans until ordered to by their boss, Josef Stalin. On May 25, 1942, Time magazine featured Mihailovic on its cover, describing how the Germans placed a price of $1 million on his head and how his resistance fighters were holding down seven German divisions who otherwise could have been on the Russian front. Some war criminal! Some Nazi sympathizer! Perhaps the professor should do more research and less rewriting. James Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, Ottawa © Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal