Krajina:
10 Year Anniversary
By Carl
Savich
August 4 marks the 10 year anniversary of the Croat attack on the Serbian
majority region of Krajina in 1995 that resulted in the expulsion of 200,000
to 300,000 Krajina Serbs. This was the largest population displacement
during the Yugoslav breakup in the 1990s. It was the largest expulsion
in Europe since World War II.
Was it the largest act of "ethnic cleansing" since the Holocaust?
In 1997, the names of 1,542 Krajina Serbs killed in the assault were
recorded. Over 73% of the houses of Krajina Serbs were destroyed.
Was the Krajina expulsion an act of genocide not seen in Europe since
World War II?
The US and Western media referred to it as an "exodus" and an assault
to "oust" Serbian rebels, "Croatian Serbs", the oxymoron propaganda term
coined by the US State Department. It has been covered-up and deleted from
the mainstream history of the Balkan conflicts because the victims were
Serbs and because a majority population was destroyed and denied self-determination.
The Bill Clinton Administration, along with the Pentagon, the US State
Department, the CIA, DIA, NATO, Germany, and Military Professional Resources,
Inc. (MPRI), were all involved in the planning and organization of the
attack.
It is important to remember this largest act of population displacement
and "ethnic cleansing" in Europe since the Holocaust because it shows that
there were victims on all sides.
It also shows the hypocrisy and duplicity of the US policy in dealing
with the Serb plight in the Balkans.
In Kosovo, the US policy was to support the local majority and grant
self-determination to a minority. In Krajina, conversely, the US policy
was to deny democracy and prevent self-determination.
Indeed, in Krajina, the US policy resulted in the total elimination
and displacement of the local majority population, which under the Genocide
Convention, was an act of genocide. Krajina demonstrates that all sides
to the Balkans conflicts were victims.
WARNING!
Pictures
in the slide show are of a gruesome nature and may not be suited for a
young audience.
