http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/24/myth-of-croatian-fascism/.
"Recently, Croatian authorities arrested Josip Boljkovac for the mass murder
of anti-communists after the end of World War II. Mr. Boljkovac, 89, is charged
with committing numerous war crimes at the infamous Dubovec camp ".
Dear editor,
It is quite shocking to read this sort of articles in Washington Times, considered as a serious and
worldwide known newspaper. It is not the first time that your "journalist", instead of informing, spreads
a sort of unhealthy propaganda for someone, in the wrong way.
When speaking about the making of the kingdom of Yugoslavia, Mr. Kuhner is wrong about the Croatian good intentions.
My grandfather Milan Vukelic, the Serb,was one of the members who participated in making that kingdom of Slovenia, Croatia and
Serbia, with his cousin Josip Juraj Straussmeyer, the catholic bishop of Zagreb, but from the very beginning a minority of
Crotas were against that union. The result was that in 1909, some 53 were arrested and judged for the treason, which was largely described
in sptember 1909 issue of the Croat magazine "Globus" published in Zagreb which is today in my possession. ( I can send you a copy if you wish).
According to Croat magazine "Globus", then Austro-Hungarian authorities claimed that parts of Croatia where Serbs lived were completely
autonomous by the decree of the empire, but the Croats would not accept the fact. I am in possession of many documents from that period left
by my grandfather.
Later on, what happened in Marseille –France, in 1934 was the result of the "demonized" Croatian politics. King Alexander of Yugoslavia was
murdered, together with the French PM by the Croat Ustasha.
The WWII period was not like described by Mr. Kuhner, because, again because a great part of my family lived in Zagre, Osjiek and Sisak in Croatia.
Not to be murdered by the Croats and in order to avoid to finish their lives in the Jasenovac concentration camp, my grandmother, and her two sisters
were obliged to convert themselves to Catholicism, while their brother the Serbian orthodox priest, Jovan Magarasevic, wa send to Jasenovac camp,
where he was murdered and then thrown into a pit in the place named Jadovno. The Croat communist dictator J.B. Tito ordered after the war that that pit
was to be covered with concrete in order not to be known to the larger public opinion.
As far as in the first paragraph when speaking about Josip Boljkovac who was arrested for the "mass murder" of "anti-communists" after the WWII,
Mr. Kuhner does not say who were those "anti-communists". They were all Ustasha Nazi soldiers who were fighting for Hitler all around the Europe,
and who tried to escape the justice. Mr. Kuhner does not say that the same Josip Boljkovac was the Croat interior minister in 1990, who fought "Chetniks".
Chetnik is a Croat name given to Serbs before the WWII. But, knowing that the very same "Chetniks" fought Nazis and Communists, it is quite strange to read
that Milan Nedic was anti-Jew, or communist murdering Nazi Ustasha Croats. Besides, it is quite strange to say that Italinan fascist Mussolini helped "Chetniks"
in the same time Winston Churchill did it or US government.
And at the end, "creating of Great Serbia", knowing facts are that Croats exterminated some 750 000 of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the biggest Nazi concentration camp
in the Balkans during WWII, that they expelled in 1995 some 350 000 and ethnically cleansed regions where Serbs lived, and robbed their properties in those regions.
Propaganda is not in any case the history., and Mr. Kuhner is trying to remake the history in his own way. Is he paid for doing that ?
Dragan Rakic
AI member
Strasbourg
France
EU
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