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Hague Necrophilia

The digging up of the cemetery is yet another act of the perverse international "justice" and miserable sycophancy of the authorities. But, the problem is larger than the incompetence of the government. Our worst misfortune is that Croatia is ruled by those who do not love her. If they had at least a drop of patriotism, they would not allow various investigators to behave like vultures, they would not allow that Croats be humiliated, nor would they work so hard on undermining the foundations of the Croat statehood and sovereignty

by Zoran VUKMAN

Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, Croatia, April 23, 2001

The Hague necrophilia is closing a circle in Knin. The digging up of the cemetery is yet another act of the perverse international "justice" and miserable sycophancy of the authorities. But, the problem is larger than the incompetence of the government. Our worst misfortune is that Croatia is ruled by those who do not love her. Moreover, some of them unconsciously hate Croatia. Croatia is ruled by those to whom she was a painful complex ten years ago.

If they had at least a drop of patriotism, they would not allow various investigators, spies and agents to behave like vultures, they would not allow that Croats be humiliated, nor would they work so hard on undermining the foundations of the Croat statehood and sovereignty, by following the instructions of the so-called international community.

After the Hague treatment of Gospic, now we have the investigation of Knin, the other important strategic point of the liberation war. That is an attempt to inflict a blow and the final defeat at the spots of the greatest Croat victories.

Rotten Peace

When Serbs lost the so-called Krajina in Croatia, Americans compensated that loss in Dayton by the Republic of Srpska. The source of all evil in this region, after the Serb aggressive behavior, is the rewarding of Serbs as the aggressor in the post-war period and establishment of balance of power by force.

The rotten peace envisioned by the Americans in Dayton was imposed as the peace of the powerful military pacifier, the peace that introduced injustice as the lasting state and potentially additionally complicated things. The USA believes to be so powerful that she can modify reality and introduce some of her projections, or, respectively, order and organize whole nations and states according to her plans and interests.

The powerful do not care about fates of the ordinary individuals. Someone had to pay in all of this, and consequently the Croats are paying as the foreign protectors believe that we are the weakest of the lot.

They cynically draw a parallel between the former so-called Serb Krajina in Croatia and Herceg-Bosna, and hypocritically ignore the obvious fact that the Republic of Srpska is a version of Krajina that exactly they, the international protectors, created and that they refuse to give to Croats in Bosnia-Hercegovina what they already gave to Serbs and Muslims. That is why it was necessary to crank up the whole propaganda machinery for the criminalization of Croats so that they could be definitely destroyed as a constituent nation [in Bosnia-Hercegovina].

They see analogies only where there aren't any, between Croatia in 1991 with the aggressive Serb rebellion and Bosnia-Hercegovina in 2001, where according to their ideas that analogy would function with Croats as the rebellious factor. In that they totally ignore the fact that Bosnia-Hercegovina is in practice a state in creation after the wartime chaos, that she has three nations that are on paper supposed to be equal and have the same rights in their participation in the government, and that already at that level there cannot be any comparison with Croatia, where there is only one constituent nation.

Road to the Balkan Federation

Bosnia-Hercegovina is a specific state in Europe and the best solutions for its internal organization have been sought for a while, only to have the protectors decide six years after the signing of he Dayton Peace Agreement to sort everything out by force, by stomping on the rights of one nation. The attitude of the media and authorities in Croatia with respect to the persecution of Croats in Bosnia-Hercegovina is shameful. As if the official Zagreb cowardly were waiting for Petritsch to arrest everyone there and suppress Croat resistance to injustice by force and tanks. The world power brokers have been maddened by power. They think they can challenge God himself.

Actually they are gods who walk the Bosnian mountains. English tanks in Madjugorje are a defiant challenge to Croats, Catholics, a spiteful provocation and attempt to humiliate the greatest Catholic shrines at the time of celebration.

At the same time they are trying to force Croatia on her knees by economic sanctions. I fear that we are about to experience planned inflation based on the instructions of the IMF. That institution of international vultures can assume full control of Croatia only in case of hyperinflation.

Dead End Street

A jump in the price of fuel, instead of alarming the public, has left the nation indifferent and apathetic. That is the power of the media, which are now silent. If there were any increases in the price of fuel under the former authorities, the media would have skinned them alive.

For fifteen months the tragicomic Racan's government has been demonstrating incompetence and inability, and the political committee of the six is taking the country to a dead end street. Once they get the country there, they will offer the total sallout of Croatia as the only way out.

In 2000 Racan promised new jobs in this year. Instead, he has managed to strategically impoverish the country. That is the greatest achievement of his government and an indicator of the richness of his political talent.

When they reduce us to the level of Macedonia or Albania, then the Croatian path to the Balkan Federation and Balkan integration will be totally open. Isn't that the true goal of the invisible hands that are pulling the strings of Croat puppets?


Translated on August 14, 2001
SLobodna Dalmacija