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Tuesday, 19.04.2011.

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Ex-U.S. envoy: No ethnic cleansing in Croatia

Former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith said that former Croatian president Franjo Tuđman allowed a crime to happen during the 1995 Operation Storm.

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DD

pre 13 godina

And ALL the houses they left blew themselves up?

Insane amounts of denial and whitewashing of statistically speaking the greatest forced movement of the entire civil war. Also one of the least debated. Sick!

Niall O'Doherty

pre 13 godina

Appearing on the Croatian state television, he reiterated his position that there was no ethnic cleansing in operation Storm, Hina agency reported.

"In my opinion, this was not ethnic cleansing, because that means an army expelling people from a territory," said he.

Yes Peter, the Serbs were simply going on vacation. They even brought along their earthly posessions so that they could go on the Mother of all vacations which has gone on non-stop for the last 16 years this August. Wow amazing isn't it Peter? Wow what a party..

Seriously, why does Zagreb feel the need to wheel out goons like Peter Galbraith?

Jesus wept.

Aleks

pre 13 godina

Poor old deluded 'Nia' along with all those others who rely on 20 year old debunked propaganda I post once again, with feeling, this piece from the croatian newspaper 'Feral Tribune':

Mysterious Flier 'Spearheads' Storm:

http://www.ex-yupress.com/feral/feral156.html

"Two Chains

Thus, it can be concluded that even in the "propaganda" part of he war there was a double chain of "command". One, the official one, went via the Croatian TV and broadcast Tudman's message to the Serb civilians to stay in their homes, while the other, unofficial and secret chain of command "ordered" the Serb civilians via fliers to pull out of Krajina scaring them with the arrival of "the Ustashe army". Inasmuch as in the "ordinary" war the Croat leaders on several occasions exceeded the necessary self defense, it is obviously to be expected that they did the same in the conduct of "special" warfare.

Instead of causing panic and confusion in the Serb units by propaganda-psychological tricks, which is allowed by the Geneva Conventions under the category of "wartime trickery", panic and confusion were provoked among the civilians in order to prompt them to run en masse. And that mode of special warfare could clearly be named special ethnic cleansing."

Nia

pre 13 godina

Galbraith is right. The "Krajina" Serbs were not expelled at gunpoint. They were ordered to evacuate by their own leadership three days prior to Operation Storm. Anyone can view Martic's evacuation order online.

Furthermore, most of the Serbs in the area had not lived there for long. A great many of them had moved there from elsewhere in Bosnia. They lived in the houses of the 200,000 Croats that had been forced at gunpoint to leave their homes.

When will the Serbs be held accountable for the ethnic cleansing they committed against the 200,000 Croats they forcibly expelled in the "Krajina" region?

And speaking of justice - when will Mile Novakovic be held accountable for the many deaths of Serb civilians his tanks ran over as they evacuated? This monster still remains at large in Serbia. http://tinyurl.com/3njuyrb I wonder if Serbs consider him a hero like Mladic or Seselj too despite the fact that Novakovic probably horribly slaughtered more Serb civilians than died in the whole of Operation Storm.

Croatia for the Croats

pre 13 godina

Now I do not believe that Peter Galbraith can be so naive! No ethnic cleansing only people running away of their own free will! Sure, we all leave our homes of our own free will to go on holiday but not for ever and not during a dirty war. Appart from bias dare I say people like Galbraith would be better of not making a statement at all otherwise people would see the size of his brain.

mr rae

pre 13 godina

according to our esteemed american's opinion it would seem evident that his opinion would be that there was no ethnic cleansing of ethnic albanian population in kosovo either. afterall, every video i saw was of a caravan of civilians leaving the besiged area. the caravan wasn't being constantly bombarded (as were those of ethnic serbs leaving croatia). these people too left on their own. however, these people also returned shortly afterwards.
and when once considers the statement at a more general level, one could wonder how usa could even justify anything according to humanitarian actions. consider libya for the moment. those people who are in danger could simply run away and everything is fine. why is nato there then when civilans could run from danger instead of waiting to die. nato is running countless bombing missions from the air, hitting targets from all sides of the conflict (as per usual).
infact, had all the jews left germany like they were told to do, there would not have been a genocide of jews in ww2 either, so then shouldn't the fault of the jewish for not running away to saftey, community mr american minister?
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PEOPLE of a seperate ethnic group who once lived in a region left under duress, and have not returned. the region was effectively cleansed of this ethnic group -- hence the term ethnic cleansing. seems obvious. perhaps he should pick up a dictionary once in a while instead of trying to invent his own definition of words and terms.

Milan

pre 13 godina

Peter Galbraith was riding along on a Croatian tank so of course he is trying to downplay everything to save himself and the US. Here is an interesting link.

http://mprofaca.cro.net/operation_storm.html

XXX

pre 13 godina

"In this case, the people ran away, and maybe they were justified, but in any case they left the territory before the arrival of the Croatian armed forces,"

He's right.
I don't know why they are always talking about 7,000 people being executed in Srebrenica, when only less then 300 surrendered when Bosnian Serb Army came. The rest fled towards Tuzla, being ambushed along the way, and even figthing, as they never surrendered.

"In this case, the people ran away, and maybe they were justified, but in any case they left the territory before the arrival of the Bosnian Serb armed forces,"

highduke

pre 13 godina

This guy was directly involved in illegally dismantling & attacking Yugoslavia, which more & more Croats are recognizing as a mistake along with Ustashoid Operation Storm because they're a big ZERO to the EU, whereas they could've been #2 in Yugoslavia and they will be by the end of this decade.

Jovan

pre 13 godina

Peter, ...you should really shut up and stay quiet. you´re just making it worse, ... the once so glorious US of A are are losing more and more respect because of not only these shameless officials who have obviously lost their minds, ...it´s the totally deranged foreign policy that has made the US a rogue state in the eyes of pretty much all of the world, except their "allies" who are more or less rather servants than allies.

Washington, Lincoln and other great Americans of the past would be ashamed of the current regime in the white house.

sj

pre 13 godina

Another US scumbag trying to make his pathetic Washington masters look clean. Of course the Serbs0 left under their own power and free will; why they even murdered their own people just to spite the Croatians.
There is no coming back from this because in the past the Court has been accused of being a western puppet and to reverse this decision would only make it look even more ridiculous.

Jovan

pre 13 godina

Peter, ...you should really shut up and stay quiet. you´re just making it worse, ... the once so glorious US of A are are losing more and more respect because of not only these shameless officials who have obviously lost their minds, ...it´s the totally deranged foreign policy that has made the US a rogue state in the eyes of pretty much all of the world, except their "allies" who are more or less rather servants than allies.

Washington, Lincoln and other great Americans of the past would be ashamed of the current regime in the white house.

sj

pre 13 godina

Another US scumbag trying to make his pathetic Washington masters look clean. Of course the Serbs0 left under their own power and free will; why they even murdered their own people just to spite the Croatians.
There is no coming back from this because in the past the Court has been accused of being a western puppet and to reverse this decision would only make it look even more ridiculous.

Milan

pre 13 godina

Peter Galbraith was riding along on a Croatian tank so of course he is trying to downplay everything to save himself and the US. Here is an interesting link.

http://mprofaca.cro.net/operation_storm.html

XXX

pre 13 godina

"In this case, the people ran away, and maybe they were justified, but in any case they left the territory before the arrival of the Croatian armed forces,"

He's right.
I don't know why they are always talking about 7,000 people being executed in Srebrenica, when only less then 300 surrendered when Bosnian Serb Army came. The rest fled towards Tuzla, being ambushed along the way, and even figthing, as they never surrendered.

"In this case, the people ran away, and maybe they were justified, but in any case they left the territory before the arrival of the Bosnian Serb armed forces,"

mr rae

pre 13 godina

according to our esteemed american's opinion it would seem evident that his opinion would be that there was no ethnic cleansing of ethnic albanian population in kosovo either. afterall, every video i saw was of a caravan of civilians leaving the besiged area. the caravan wasn't being constantly bombarded (as were those of ethnic serbs leaving croatia). these people too left on their own. however, these people also returned shortly afterwards.
and when once considers the statement at a more general level, one could wonder how usa could even justify anything according to humanitarian actions. consider libya for the moment. those people who are in danger could simply run away and everything is fine. why is nato there then when civilans could run from danger instead of waiting to die. nato is running countless bombing missions from the air, hitting targets from all sides of the conflict (as per usual).
infact, had all the jews left germany like they were told to do, there would not have been a genocide of jews in ww2 either, so then shouldn't the fault of the jewish for not running away to saftey, community mr american minister?
-----
PEOPLE of a seperate ethnic group who once lived in a region left under duress, and have not returned. the region was effectively cleansed of this ethnic group -- hence the term ethnic cleansing. seems obvious. perhaps he should pick up a dictionary once in a while instead of trying to invent his own definition of words and terms.

highduke

pre 13 godina

This guy was directly involved in illegally dismantling & attacking Yugoslavia, which more & more Croats are recognizing as a mistake along with Ustashoid Operation Storm because they're a big ZERO to the EU, whereas they could've been #2 in Yugoslavia and they will be by the end of this decade.

Croatia for the Croats

pre 13 godina

Now I do not believe that Peter Galbraith can be so naive! No ethnic cleansing only people running away of their own free will! Sure, we all leave our homes of our own free will to go on holiday but not for ever and not during a dirty war. Appart from bias dare I say people like Galbraith would be better of not making a statement at all otherwise people would see the size of his brain.

Nia

pre 13 godina

Galbraith is right. The "Krajina" Serbs were not expelled at gunpoint. They were ordered to evacuate by their own leadership three days prior to Operation Storm. Anyone can view Martic's evacuation order online.

Furthermore, most of the Serbs in the area had not lived there for long. A great many of them had moved there from elsewhere in Bosnia. They lived in the houses of the 200,000 Croats that had been forced at gunpoint to leave their homes.

When will the Serbs be held accountable for the ethnic cleansing they committed against the 200,000 Croats they forcibly expelled in the "Krajina" region?

And speaking of justice - when will Mile Novakovic be held accountable for the many deaths of Serb civilians his tanks ran over as they evacuated? This monster still remains at large in Serbia. http://tinyurl.com/3njuyrb I wonder if Serbs consider him a hero like Mladic or Seselj too despite the fact that Novakovic probably horribly slaughtered more Serb civilians than died in the whole of Operation Storm.

DD

pre 13 godina

And ALL the houses they left blew themselves up?

Insane amounts of denial and whitewashing of statistically speaking the greatest forced movement of the entire civil war. Also one of the least debated. Sick!

Niall O'Doherty

pre 13 godina

Appearing on the Croatian state television, he reiterated his position that there was no ethnic cleansing in operation Storm, Hina agency reported.

"In my opinion, this was not ethnic cleansing, because that means an army expelling people from a territory," said he.

Yes Peter, the Serbs were simply going on vacation. They even brought along their earthly posessions so that they could go on the Mother of all vacations which has gone on non-stop for the last 16 years this August. Wow amazing isn't it Peter? Wow what a party..

Seriously, why does Zagreb feel the need to wheel out goons like Peter Galbraith?

Jesus wept.

Aleks

pre 13 godina

Poor old deluded 'Nia' along with all those others who rely on 20 year old debunked propaganda I post once again, with feeling, this piece from the croatian newspaper 'Feral Tribune':

Mysterious Flier 'Spearheads' Storm:

http://www.ex-yupress.com/feral/feral156.html

"Two Chains

Thus, it can be concluded that even in the "propaganda" part of he war there was a double chain of "command". One, the official one, went via the Croatian TV and broadcast Tudman's message to the Serb civilians to stay in their homes, while the other, unofficial and secret chain of command "ordered" the Serb civilians via fliers to pull out of Krajina scaring them with the arrival of "the Ustashe army". Inasmuch as in the "ordinary" war the Croat leaders on several occasions exceeded the necessary self defense, it is obviously to be expected that they did the same in the conduct of "special" warfare.

Instead of causing panic and confusion in the Serb units by propaganda-psychological tricks, which is allowed by the Geneva Conventions under the category of "wartime trickery", panic and confusion were provoked among the civilians in order to prompt them to run en masse. And that mode of special warfare could clearly be named special ethnic cleansing."

Nia

pre 13 godina

Galbraith is right. The "Krajina" Serbs were not expelled at gunpoint. They were ordered to evacuate by their own leadership three days prior to Operation Storm. Anyone can view Martic's evacuation order online.

Furthermore, most of the Serbs in the area had not lived there for long. A great many of them had moved there from elsewhere in Bosnia. They lived in the houses of the 200,000 Croats that had been forced at gunpoint to leave their homes.

When will the Serbs be held accountable for the ethnic cleansing they committed against the 200,000 Croats they forcibly expelled in the "Krajina" region?

And speaking of justice - when will Mile Novakovic be held accountable for the many deaths of Serb civilians his tanks ran over as they evacuated? This monster still remains at large in Serbia. http://tinyurl.com/3njuyrb I wonder if Serbs consider him a hero like Mladic or Seselj too despite the fact that Novakovic probably horribly slaughtered more Serb civilians than died in the whole of Operation Storm.

XXX

pre 13 godina

"In this case, the people ran away, and maybe they were justified, but in any case they left the territory before the arrival of the Croatian armed forces,"

He's right.
I don't know why they are always talking about 7,000 people being executed in Srebrenica, when only less then 300 surrendered when Bosnian Serb Army came. The rest fled towards Tuzla, being ambushed along the way, and even figthing, as they never surrendered.

"In this case, the people ran away, and maybe they were justified, but in any case they left the territory before the arrival of the Bosnian Serb armed forces,"

sj

pre 13 godina

Another US scumbag trying to make his pathetic Washington masters look clean. Of course the Serbs0 left under their own power and free will; why they even murdered their own people just to spite the Croatians.
There is no coming back from this because in the past the Court has been accused of being a western puppet and to reverse this decision would only make it look even more ridiculous.

Milan

pre 13 godina

Peter Galbraith was riding along on a Croatian tank so of course he is trying to downplay everything to save himself and the US. Here is an interesting link.

http://mprofaca.cro.net/operation_storm.html

highduke

pre 13 godina

This guy was directly involved in illegally dismantling & attacking Yugoslavia, which more & more Croats are recognizing as a mistake along with Ustashoid Operation Storm because they're a big ZERO to the EU, whereas they could've been #2 in Yugoslavia and they will be by the end of this decade.

Jovan

pre 13 godina

Peter, ...you should really shut up and stay quiet. you´re just making it worse, ... the once so glorious US of A are are losing more and more respect because of not only these shameless officials who have obviously lost their minds, ...it´s the totally deranged foreign policy that has made the US a rogue state in the eyes of pretty much all of the world, except their "allies" who are more or less rather servants than allies.

Washington, Lincoln and other great Americans of the past would be ashamed of the current regime in the white house.

Croatia for the Croats

pre 13 godina

Now I do not believe that Peter Galbraith can be so naive! No ethnic cleansing only people running away of their own free will! Sure, we all leave our homes of our own free will to go on holiday but not for ever and not during a dirty war. Appart from bias dare I say people like Galbraith would be better of not making a statement at all otherwise people would see the size of his brain.

mr rae

pre 13 godina

according to our esteemed american's opinion it would seem evident that his opinion would be that there was no ethnic cleansing of ethnic albanian population in kosovo either. afterall, every video i saw was of a caravan of civilians leaving the besiged area. the caravan wasn't being constantly bombarded (as were those of ethnic serbs leaving croatia). these people too left on their own. however, these people also returned shortly afterwards.
and when once considers the statement at a more general level, one could wonder how usa could even justify anything according to humanitarian actions. consider libya for the moment. those people who are in danger could simply run away and everything is fine. why is nato there then when civilans could run from danger instead of waiting to die. nato is running countless bombing missions from the air, hitting targets from all sides of the conflict (as per usual).
infact, had all the jews left germany like they were told to do, there would not have been a genocide of jews in ww2 either, so then shouldn't the fault of the jewish for not running away to saftey, community mr american minister?
-----
PEOPLE of a seperate ethnic group who once lived in a region left under duress, and have not returned. the region was effectively cleansed of this ethnic group -- hence the term ethnic cleansing. seems obvious. perhaps he should pick up a dictionary once in a while instead of trying to invent his own definition of words and terms.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 13 godina

Appearing on the Croatian state television, he reiterated his position that there was no ethnic cleansing in operation Storm, Hina agency reported.

"In my opinion, this was not ethnic cleansing, because that means an army expelling people from a territory," said he.

Yes Peter, the Serbs were simply going on vacation. They even brought along their earthly posessions so that they could go on the Mother of all vacations which has gone on non-stop for the last 16 years this August. Wow amazing isn't it Peter? Wow what a party..

Seriously, why does Zagreb feel the need to wheel out goons like Peter Galbraith?

Jesus wept.

Aleks

pre 13 godina

Poor old deluded 'Nia' along with all those others who rely on 20 year old debunked propaganda I post once again, with feeling, this piece from the croatian newspaper 'Feral Tribune':

Mysterious Flier 'Spearheads' Storm:

http://www.ex-yupress.com/feral/feral156.html

"Two Chains

Thus, it can be concluded that even in the "propaganda" part of he war there was a double chain of "command". One, the official one, went via the Croatian TV and broadcast Tudman's message to the Serb civilians to stay in their homes, while the other, unofficial and secret chain of command "ordered" the Serb civilians via fliers to pull out of Krajina scaring them with the arrival of "the Ustashe army". Inasmuch as in the "ordinary" war the Croat leaders on several occasions exceeded the necessary self defense, it is obviously to be expected that they did the same in the conduct of "special" warfare.

Instead of causing panic and confusion in the Serb units by propaganda-psychological tricks, which is allowed by the Geneva Conventions under the category of "wartime trickery", panic and confusion were provoked among the civilians in order to prompt them to run en masse. And that mode of special warfare could clearly be named special ethnic cleansing."

DD

pre 13 godina

And ALL the houses they left blew themselves up?

Insane amounts of denial and whitewashing of statistically speaking the greatest forced movement of the entire civil war. Also one of the least debated. Sick!