by Frenki LAUSIC
The same source told us that the flier was produced by the secretive Special Warfare Department in the Croatian Defense Ministry, established during the war. The members of the department were allegedly Generals Ivan Tolj and Miro Medjimorac, Brigadier Markica Rebic, Rear Admiral Davor Domazet Loso, and a team of journalists working for the Croatian TV - Hloverka Novak-Srzic, Ivanka Lucev, and Jozo Curic. Out of the mentioned individuals we only managed to reach Ivanka Lucev, Hloverka Novak-Srzic and Ivan Tolj. All of them denied their participation in the work of the mysterious department.
Out of the three mentioned Croatian TV journalists, Ivanka Lucev and Hloverka Novak-Srzic denied any links with the activities of the Department [for Special Warfare]. "I personally was together with several journalists and General Ivan Tolj and Brigadier Dusan Vir in the Public Relations Headquarters formed specially for the Storm, and our chief task was to as frequently as possible broadcast the message of president of the Republic Franjo Tudman in which he called on all Serbs in the occupied territory to stay in their homes. I really do not know anything about that Department and that flier," Ivanka Lucev said, while Hloverka Novak-Srzic more or less said the same.
The wall of silence regarding special warfare during the Storm, the war which according to these indications also had elements of deliberate ethnic cleansing was, however, punctured totally spontaneously in April 1997 by Rear Admiral Domazet with his article in Hrvatski Vojnik [Croatian soldier] under the headline "Final operations of the Croatian Army". In the part of the article under the headline "Operations of the Croatian Army in reactions of Serb (enemy) military and civilian officials," Domazet also mentions an article by Dr. Predrag Pejcic published in the military magazine of the Chiefs of Staff of the Yugoslav Army Vojska [Army], in which, according to Domazet, Pejcic "analyzed a flier". A footnote in the article provides Pejcic's quote of the text from the filer, which is identical with the flier obtained by Feral, including the "errors" which make it obvious that the flier is a fake.
Namely, in the alleged stamp of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Serb Krajina, the first three letters of the word "Ministry" were written in the Latin alphabet which reveals a fatal mistake in the composition of this flier. However, it is interesting that Domazet in his article at no time questions Pejcic's conclusion that that flier had been thrown from airplanes before the Storm and that it was produced by the Croatian Army.
"It will be mentioned that regardless of who ordered the evacuation of the civilians, the mentioned 'trick' was obviously very successful. Therefore, according to Pejcic the flier is a total misinformation and was successfully used by the Croatian Army propaganda and the action was well prepared with the goal to exploit the expected confusion of the 'krajina army'," Domazet writes in the article. One would expect that in his article Domzet would deny the existence of such a flier, but he never does that.
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.
And really, that constitutional law, with only two articles, is at the same time anti-Serb, anti-Croat, anti-Bosniak, anti-Macedonian, and anti-Albanian...; briefly, it is against all those individuals who during the former Yugoslavia held their savings in Ljubljanska Bank, and were not Slovenians from Slovenia. Actually, this is nothing but a banal swindle which, against better customs, but totally in agreement with customary Balkan practice, was carried out in the Slovenian Parliament. The Parliament founded the New Ljubljanska Bank, and transferred all the business deals, all the property, and all the employees of the old Ljubljanska Bank to the "new" company, while the "old" Ljubljanska Bank was left with all the debts that it cannot pay back as it lacks both money and property. The law that prescribes that has the force of the constitution and therefore cannot be challenged in the Constitutional or any other court.
Probably only the Ljubljanska Bank knows how much money from other parts of the former Yugoslavia was stolen in that manner. The management of the bank has in the past claimed that half of all of its business originated from outside Slovenia. Ozura now claims that 132,000 of Croat account holders who did not transfer their accounts to Croatian banks are owed $155 million, $172.5 million including interest. That means that the Ljubljanska Bank has applied the annual interest rate of 0.5 percent for the last ten years on the accounts that it has frozen by force.
Recently, Croatian account holders (as well as the state, which claims $255 million from the Ljubljanska Bank, due to the money that has been transferred to the public debt) have received good news that the senior Slovenian officials have finally admitted that they owe anything. Until recently they persistently claimed that that money had been spent on credits to Croatian companies, so that Croats have nothing to ask for. (It is true that the Ljubljanska Bank gave about $85 million of credit in Croatia, while everything else was taken in a van to Ljubljana).
However, Borut Ozura now brings up that old empty story, claiming that they would pay money back to their customers if only the Croatian companies paid back the money they owe to the Ljubljanska Bank. But in Slovenia, the Ljubljanska Bank failed to recover all of the debts it was owed by the local companies while the Yugoslav market still existed and yet that did not prevent it from fulfilling its obligations towards individual account holders in Slovenia.
Why is Ozura again falling back on "arguments" that were supposed to had become obsolete? Because he is still defending the right of the Ljubljanska bank to steal the money deposited by its customers from other states formed after the break up of the former Yugoslavia. Slovenians got their money, and protected themselves from all the other "Serbs" by a constitutional law. However, they had to admit that sooner or later they would have to pay that money back. When? No one knows!
