Post by Novus Dis on Oct 10, 2008 23:20:14 GMT -5
Professor Zivanovic: Truth About Genocide of Serbs in Fascist Croatia.
Truth About Jasenovac
Genocide of Serbs: Never Again
Interview with Srboljub Zivanovic, Ph.D, by Zlata Markovic, Istina.at. Translated by Nebojsa Malic
In just a few days, at this year’s Belgrade Book Fair, the publishing house “Srpska Knjiga” will be promoting its latest edition, “Jasenovac” by Professor Srboljub Zivanovic, Ph.D. Prof. Zivanovic, a world-renowned anthropologist, lives and works in London as the director of the European Institute for Ancient Slavic Studies and fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Q: Dr. Zivanovic, you were in the team of research scientists that exhumed the victims of Jasenovac 44 years ago, and are a member of the International Jasenovac commission. Why another book about Jasenovac?
Dr. Zivanovic: Almost a thousand books about Jasenovac have been published so far, and there’s been much written and spoken, so a question of why have another book is reasonable. Would it make sense, and how? Many of the books published are nowhere to be seen, cannot be found in libraries, and have mysteriously vanished from the memory of our people. Some may be found in private collections of scattered individuals. However, this new book about Jasenovac that will be promoted at the Belgrade Book Fair is published by Srpska Knjiga, which has a library in downtown Belgrade. The book is titled “Jasenovac,” but it is a collection of articles, essays, interviews, reviews, commentaries and lectures unavailable to the general public until now. For example, I’ve included a lecture I gave several years ago at Oxford, which had an impact in the West, but could not be found in print anywhere. Additionally, I’ve included the original report of the 1964 Commission that exhumed the mass graves in the Croatian death camp complex, unearthing Serb, Jewish and Roma victims of genocide. Although the research was done in 1964, the first publication of it was in 1992, in a splendid book called “Catena Mundi.” However, that book is next to impossible to find! It was financed by our émigrés in Australia, and the print run was very small. It may be easier to get a copy of this book in Australia, but it is impossible in Europe.
I was asked by many people interested in Jasenovac and the Croatian genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma to do something about this, so I collected all these materials I had and put them together in one book. My goal was to make these materials easily available to libraries, the general public, and most importantly the researchers.
Collective Amnesia
Q: Why is it necessary to write more about the genocide against the Serbs in Jasenovac?
Dr. Zivanovic: It is necessary to write much more about it today, because over 60 years have passed since that horrid murder of an entire people in the Jasenovac camps. Today’s generations think of it as ancient history. No one tells them about it in school, no one opens the window to their past. They live in the here and now alone. I have to say that our current government, just like the previous, have done nothing to explain these horrors to the people, to the children. It seems as if they’ve struck a bargain with the Croats to keep quiet and avoid “rocking the boat” again. Once that was done in the name of “brotherhood and unity,” now it is excused by regional cooperation and good-neighborly relations, or what have you. I remember seeing President Tadic with [Croatian] President Mesic on TV, and Mesic bluntly said that “Flash” and “Storm” (1995 military operations that resulted in death and expulsion of the vast majority of Serbs in Croatia - tr.) were part of the Homeland Defense War, and what happened in Jasenovac should just be forgotten! So, we should forget that 700,000 people were murdered, but the current Croatian government can sue Serbia to the International Court of Justice and claim “genocide” for less than 2000 dead in the 1990s wars? That is a bit much, really. And our politicians keep doing these sorts of things - not just those in charge, but those in the opposition as well. If we keep like this, generations of our people will never know about these crimes. And that paves the way for such crimes to happen again.
And they have happened again, in the most recent civil war. Some of the Jasenovac butchers came back to kill again. Sons of the Jasenovac murderers continued the gruesome work of their fathers. Croatian forces slaughtered Serbs up and down the Sava river when they illegally invaded Bosnia-Herzegovina. A man showed me a photo of his 10-year-old son; Croats had cut off his head, and took photographs of the beheaded corpse. Another man showed me a photo of his wife and two children, slaughtered by the Croats. I have a number of letters by Serb orphans from Brcko, describing the horrors visited upon their families by the Croats. Our church parish in London sponsored the orphanage, and they wrote us letters. And we keep silent about this! Why? Are we waiting for them to start killing us again?
They will, you know. As long as there is a Vatican, and its obsession with destroying the Serb nation until it is in every respect weaker than the Catholic Croatia. This is our tragedy, and this is why we must keep writing about it. But when you look at the history textbooks in Serbia, there is nothing about Jasenovac. Even when there is, it’s but a sentence or two. I’ve seen more about World War One in East African textbooks - three whole sentences. But three sentences about Jasenovac in our textbooks? Too much to hope for.
Things are different in the Bosnian Serb Republic. Children there know. I was at an exhibit of children’s art, the collected artwork the schoolchildren have drawn based on what they heard in school. I went to the exhibit, sat in a corner of the room, and as the children came by to see their schoolmates’ work, I would ask them what they knew about Jasenovac. And I was surprised, because they knew. The schools there teach about it, even in religion classes they talk about it. The perception is quite different. And there is none of that in Serbia. The worst part is that Serbia is one of the few countries in the world without a Holocaust museum. Yet one of the places where the Nazis murdered Jews en masse was the Old Fairgrounds in Zemun (under Croat rule at the time - tr.), where Jews would be taken in gas-chamber trucks, and would be dead on arrival.
No one seems to care. I had a chance to speak with Prime Minister Kostunica about establishing a Holocaust Museum at the Old Fairgrounds, inside an existing building that was already suited for exhibiting. He agreed, but it seems that those around him didn’t, and nothing was done. The Genocide Museum in Belgrade was closed. Not many people know that. There was a Genocide Museum, but the governments that came after October 2000 chose to move it to Kragujevac. But the Kragujevac memorial complex is dedicated to some 5000 Serb hostages shot by the Germans! It has nothing to do with some 700,000-plus Serbs, 80,000 Roma, and over 23,000 Jews who died in the Croat death camps in Jasenovac!
Death Camp for Children
Dr. Zivanovic: I am often asked why I use this expression, “Croat camps” and “Croat butchers”. Well, how else should I call them? It was Croats who killed, whether they called themselves Crusaders, Franciscans, Landwehr, Ustasha, or members of any other civil or non-governmental organization. Of course, there is a pressure from Croatian authorities, especially after Tudjman, to say that the murders were committed by fascists or Nazis - but there were none in Croatia. There were Croats. And Croats did the killing. Well, there were some murderers who were Muslim, and they were thoroughly indoctrinated to believe they were Croats, but many Muslims fought against Croat savagery.
Besides, and our children should know this, the “independent” Croatia and its executioners were the only perpetrators of genocide who tortured their victims prior to murdering them. Nazis did not do it. Nazis did not have a special camp for children, either. They had concentration camps, yes, and they had entire families in certain camps, but to separate out the small children and put them in a special camp? No one did that but the Croats. And what would happen to those children, four and under, “cared” for by the nuns? They would be forbidden to urinate after 6 PM. If they did, the nuns would grab them by their feet, swing them against the walls, and crush their skulls! That’s a fact.
At the most recent international conference on Jasenovac, I said that during the 1964 inquest we weren’t allowed to bring the press, or photographers, or anything, so there were no visuals for my presentation. However, I did bring an old lady who survived having her throat slit by the Ustasha. A nun named Pulcheria pulled her hair to expose her neck for the Croat butcher so he could slit it easily; she said she looked at him with her innocent child’s eyes and he flinched. He slit her throat halfway, then threw her in the pit, still alive. During the night, she wriggled out from underneath the corpses, and survived. We took her to a hospital and took photos and X-rays of her scars. She came up to the podium where I held my presentation, and showed her neck as the visual.
Forgotten Victims
Q: The aim of your book is to stop the cover-up of the truth about Jasenovac. The actual number of victims remains unknown, and many seek to minimize it. Why?
Dr. Zivanovic: My aim is just to preserve the truth. It should not be covered up. Maybe the authorities will eventually relent and stop keeping the truth from the new generations. I am against digging through cemeteries and unearthing old grudges, but the truth has to be known. Who will speak for those small children? They are martyrs, is what they are. It is not their fault they were born Orthodox, or Jewish, but that is why they were murdered. They cannot speak, no one is there to speak for them. Having handled thousands of their crushed skills, I’ve taken upon myself to speak for them. Someone has to.
There’s something worse. There is a great mass grave of Jasenovac victims in Belgrade. Those are the dead that floated down the Sava river, and washed up on the riverbank by Nebojsa tower. That mass grave is still there, overgrown in weeds and unmarked. But dig there, and you will find skeletons. Immediately after the war, in 1945, the [Communist] authorities ordered the return of bodies that floated down from Jasenovac. Two trucks with those bodies were sent over, supposedly, ending up God knows where. But when they saw how many bodies there were, no one wanted anything to do with them any more. For a while, the ? (People’s Protection Agency), and then its successor, UDBA (State Security Directorate), kept a guard in a leather jacket patrolling under the Nebojsa Tower. No one knew what he was doing, but he was there. The grave remains to this day. We ought to at least have a chapel in that spot, on the very site of that mass grave, because no one knows how many thousands, or tens of thousands of bodies were dumped in the Sava, how many washed up in Belgrade, or how many ended up in other graves along the river. Next to the Harish Chapel in Zemun, there is a number of graves marked as “Victims of Jasenovac.” I don’t know how they were retrieved or identified, but there they are. How many more graves are there? In Smederevo, bodies floated down the Danube for months.
The Croats now say, let’s have names, and we’ll recognize them as victims. But who knows the names of the unfortunate people whose bodies were dumped down the river?
One young historian at the so-called Belgrade Genocide Museum, the expert who should be educating the new generations, attended the IV International Jasenovac Conference (Banja Luka, 2007) and said he more or less agrees with the Croats that there were 70,000 victims. That’s how many names they have, he says! I’m speechless, really. If this book of mine can help even a little bit to preserve the real truth, I’ll be more than satisfied.
Q: Can you tell us more about the woman who survived the throat-cutting?
Dr. Zivanovic: She had a Croat surname, Skiba, because she was taken in by an Ustasha and raised to be a good Croat. She was personally baptized by Cardinal Stepinac, who was a good friend of the Ustasha that raised her.
Those that claim Stepinac was ignorant of the forcible conversions aren’t telling the truth. He knew all too well about the forcible conversions, he did them himself.
If the current Pope, whose predecessors all supported the Ustasha, can declare that criminals like Stepinac, Dominik Mandic, Ivan Merc and others are saints, then how can some people in our church speak of reconciliation with the Catholics? We could, but only if they renounce such “saints.” If they recognize the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of the Church, as the Orthodox do, instead of giving that title to their Pope, and then we can talk about ecumenism.
The Commission
Q: How did the Commission of court anthropologists operate, after it was established by the Veterans’ Unions of Bosnia-Herzegovina (15 September 1964) and Croatia (19 September,1964), and what was your mission?
Dr. Zivanovic: Members of the Commission were Vida Brodar of the Ljubljana Institute of Anthropology; Anton Pogacnik, Assistant Anthropologist at the University of Slovenia, and me, then member of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and Assistant at the University of Novi Sad.
We were young and naïve. We were sufficiently young and foolish not to think too much, too filled with pride to have been given such a task. We didn’t know what we were getting into, but we tried to do as best we could. I think we did well.
Pogacnik, unfortunately, died young - at the age of 41, playing basketball, felled by a heart attack. Vida Brodar might still be alive, though she is about a decade older than me.
Every evening, we filled out a log book and signed every page, so that each of us had a copy and a copy was sent to the organizers, so that no one could twist the findings. Though we were young, we were also pretty careful.
The part of the report I did was long sitting in my personal archive as I lived abroad, and then one day I realized that these documents should not be abroad with me, but published in the country. My good friend was the director of the Belgrade Archive, and I asked him if I could donate the documents to the Archive. They did, and the reports were sitting in the Archive for a while, to be eventually found by Kijuk and published. However, that is only a part of the report. I had misplaced the other part, and Kijuk had to look for it all over the place, until he eventually found it. The third part of the report was published for the first time last year. That is the forensic report I had put together. I was the only forensic expert there, the others were anthropologists, so only I could write an actual court forensic report. I wrote about the methods of killing and the efficiency of butchery by Croat and Muslim killers, describing some twenty methods of execution that they used.
Most often they used a mallet to the head, since they said one should not “waste a bullet on Serb swine”, then they used knives and bayonets, especially on pregnant women. And now the Croats ask for names of those unborn children! Then they starved people to death. They would also throw people alive into a furnace at the brick works, which burned at about 1000 C. There were many other ways to kill their victims: hanging, shooting, forcing them to build levees in the rain, and when someone would falter they would be knocked down and buried alive in the levee. Some were thrown into the Sava River to drown, but when they saw the bodies would float up, they began slitting them open. If a body is cut, water gets in and it sinks to the bottom. There were many methods of murder.
Not teaching about the WW2 genocide of Serbs to Serb students should be a crime.
Attention: People in Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro.
Is it true they don't teach this in school?
Truth About Jasenovac
Genocide of Serbs: Never Again
Interview with Srboljub Zivanovic, Ph.D, by Zlata Markovic, Istina.at. Translated by Nebojsa Malic
In just a few days, at this year’s Belgrade Book Fair, the publishing house “Srpska Knjiga” will be promoting its latest edition, “Jasenovac” by Professor Srboljub Zivanovic, Ph.D. Prof. Zivanovic, a world-renowned anthropologist, lives and works in London as the director of the European Institute for Ancient Slavic Studies and fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Q: Dr. Zivanovic, you were in the team of research scientists that exhumed the victims of Jasenovac 44 years ago, and are a member of the International Jasenovac commission. Why another book about Jasenovac?
Dr. Zivanovic: Almost a thousand books about Jasenovac have been published so far, and there’s been much written and spoken, so a question of why have another book is reasonable. Would it make sense, and how? Many of the books published are nowhere to be seen, cannot be found in libraries, and have mysteriously vanished from the memory of our people. Some may be found in private collections of scattered individuals. However, this new book about Jasenovac that will be promoted at the Belgrade Book Fair is published by Srpska Knjiga, which has a library in downtown Belgrade. The book is titled “Jasenovac,” but it is a collection of articles, essays, interviews, reviews, commentaries and lectures unavailable to the general public until now. For example, I’ve included a lecture I gave several years ago at Oxford, which had an impact in the West, but could not be found in print anywhere. Additionally, I’ve included the original report of the 1964 Commission that exhumed the mass graves in the Croatian death camp complex, unearthing Serb, Jewish and Roma victims of genocide. Although the research was done in 1964, the first publication of it was in 1992, in a splendid book called “Catena Mundi.” However, that book is next to impossible to find! It was financed by our émigrés in Australia, and the print run was very small. It may be easier to get a copy of this book in Australia, but it is impossible in Europe.
I was asked by many people interested in Jasenovac and the Croatian genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma to do something about this, so I collected all these materials I had and put them together in one book. My goal was to make these materials easily available to libraries, the general public, and most importantly the researchers.
Collective Amnesia
Q: Why is it necessary to write more about the genocide against the Serbs in Jasenovac?
Dr. Zivanovic: It is necessary to write much more about it today, because over 60 years have passed since that horrid murder of an entire people in the Jasenovac camps. Today’s generations think of it as ancient history. No one tells them about it in school, no one opens the window to their past. They live in the here and now alone. I have to say that our current government, just like the previous, have done nothing to explain these horrors to the people, to the children. It seems as if they’ve struck a bargain with the Croats to keep quiet and avoid “rocking the boat” again. Once that was done in the name of “brotherhood and unity,” now it is excused by regional cooperation and good-neighborly relations, or what have you. I remember seeing President Tadic with [Croatian] President Mesic on TV, and Mesic bluntly said that “Flash” and “Storm” (1995 military operations that resulted in death and expulsion of the vast majority of Serbs in Croatia - tr.) were part of the Homeland Defense War, and what happened in Jasenovac should just be forgotten! So, we should forget that 700,000 people were murdered, but the current Croatian government can sue Serbia to the International Court of Justice and claim “genocide” for less than 2000 dead in the 1990s wars? That is a bit much, really. And our politicians keep doing these sorts of things - not just those in charge, but those in the opposition as well. If we keep like this, generations of our people will never know about these crimes. And that paves the way for such crimes to happen again.
And they have happened again, in the most recent civil war. Some of the Jasenovac butchers came back to kill again. Sons of the Jasenovac murderers continued the gruesome work of their fathers. Croatian forces slaughtered Serbs up and down the Sava river when they illegally invaded Bosnia-Herzegovina. A man showed me a photo of his 10-year-old son; Croats had cut off his head, and took photographs of the beheaded corpse. Another man showed me a photo of his wife and two children, slaughtered by the Croats. I have a number of letters by Serb orphans from Brcko, describing the horrors visited upon their families by the Croats. Our church parish in London sponsored the orphanage, and they wrote us letters. And we keep silent about this! Why? Are we waiting for them to start killing us again?
They will, you know. As long as there is a Vatican, and its obsession with destroying the Serb nation until it is in every respect weaker than the Catholic Croatia. This is our tragedy, and this is why we must keep writing about it. But when you look at the history textbooks in Serbia, there is nothing about Jasenovac. Even when there is, it’s but a sentence or two. I’ve seen more about World War One in East African textbooks - three whole sentences. But three sentences about Jasenovac in our textbooks? Too much to hope for.
Things are different in the Bosnian Serb Republic. Children there know. I was at an exhibit of children’s art, the collected artwork the schoolchildren have drawn based on what they heard in school. I went to the exhibit, sat in a corner of the room, and as the children came by to see their schoolmates’ work, I would ask them what they knew about Jasenovac. And I was surprised, because they knew. The schools there teach about it, even in religion classes they talk about it. The perception is quite different. And there is none of that in Serbia. The worst part is that Serbia is one of the few countries in the world without a Holocaust museum. Yet one of the places where the Nazis murdered Jews en masse was the Old Fairgrounds in Zemun (under Croat rule at the time - tr.), where Jews would be taken in gas-chamber trucks, and would be dead on arrival.
No one seems to care. I had a chance to speak with Prime Minister Kostunica about establishing a Holocaust Museum at the Old Fairgrounds, inside an existing building that was already suited for exhibiting. He agreed, but it seems that those around him didn’t, and nothing was done. The Genocide Museum in Belgrade was closed. Not many people know that. There was a Genocide Museum, but the governments that came after October 2000 chose to move it to Kragujevac. But the Kragujevac memorial complex is dedicated to some 5000 Serb hostages shot by the Germans! It has nothing to do with some 700,000-plus Serbs, 80,000 Roma, and over 23,000 Jews who died in the Croat death camps in Jasenovac!
Death Camp for Children
Dr. Zivanovic: I am often asked why I use this expression, “Croat camps” and “Croat butchers”. Well, how else should I call them? It was Croats who killed, whether they called themselves Crusaders, Franciscans, Landwehr, Ustasha, or members of any other civil or non-governmental organization. Of course, there is a pressure from Croatian authorities, especially after Tudjman, to say that the murders were committed by fascists or Nazis - but there were none in Croatia. There were Croats. And Croats did the killing. Well, there were some murderers who were Muslim, and they were thoroughly indoctrinated to believe they were Croats, but many Muslims fought against Croat savagery.
Besides, and our children should know this, the “independent” Croatia and its executioners were the only perpetrators of genocide who tortured their victims prior to murdering them. Nazis did not do it. Nazis did not have a special camp for children, either. They had concentration camps, yes, and they had entire families in certain camps, but to separate out the small children and put them in a special camp? No one did that but the Croats. And what would happen to those children, four and under, “cared” for by the nuns? They would be forbidden to urinate after 6 PM. If they did, the nuns would grab them by their feet, swing them against the walls, and crush their skulls! That’s a fact.
At the most recent international conference on Jasenovac, I said that during the 1964 inquest we weren’t allowed to bring the press, or photographers, or anything, so there were no visuals for my presentation. However, I did bring an old lady who survived having her throat slit by the Ustasha. A nun named Pulcheria pulled her hair to expose her neck for the Croat butcher so he could slit it easily; she said she looked at him with her innocent child’s eyes and he flinched. He slit her throat halfway, then threw her in the pit, still alive. During the night, she wriggled out from underneath the corpses, and survived. We took her to a hospital and took photos and X-rays of her scars. She came up to the podium where I held my presentation, and showed her neck as the visual.
Forgotten Victims
Q: The aim of your book is to stop the cover-up of the truth about Jasenovac. The actual number of victims remains unknown, and many seek to minimize it. Why?
Dr. Zivanovic: My aim is just to preserve the truth. It should not be covered up. Maybe the authorities will eventually relent and stop keeping the truth from the new generations. I am against digging through cemeteries and unearthing old grudges, but the truth has to be known. Who will speak for those small children? They are martyrs, is what they are. It is not their fault they were born Orthodox, or Jewish, but that is why they were murdered. They cannot speak, no one is there to speak for them. Having handled thousands of their crushed skills, I’ve taken upon myself to speak for them. Someone has to.
There’s something worse. There is a great mass grave of Jasenovac victims in Belgrade. Those are the dead that floated down the Sava river, and washed up on the riverbank by Nebojsa tower. That mass grave is still there, overgrown in weeds and unmarked. But dig there, and you will find skeletons. Immediately after the war, in 1945, the [Communist] authorities ordered the return of bodies that floated down from Jasenovac. Two trucks with those bodies were sent over, supposedly, ending up God knows where. But when they saw how many bodies there were, no one wanted anything to do with them any more. For a while, the ? (People’s Protection Agency), and then its successor, UDBA (State Security Directorate), kept a guard in a leather jacket patrolling under the Nebojsa Tower. No one knew what he was doing, but he was there. The grave remains to this day. We ought to at least have a chapel in that spot, on the very site of that mass grave, because no one knows how many thousands, or tens of thousands of bodies were dumped in the Sava, how many washed up in Belgrade, or how many ended up in other graves along the river. Next to the Harish Chapel in Zemun, there is a number of graves marked as “Victims of Jasenovac.” I don’t know how they were retrieved or identified, but there they are. How many more graves are there? In Smederevo, bodies floated down the Danube for months.
The Croats now say, let’s have names, and we’ll recognize them as victims. But who knows the names of the unfortunate people whose bodies were dumped down the river?
One young historian at the so-called Belgrade Genocide Museum, the expert who should be educating the new generations, attended the IV International Jasenovac Conference (Banja Luka, 2007) and said he more or less agrees with the Croats that there were 70,000 victims. That’s how many names they have, he says! I’m speechless, really. If this book of mine can help even a little bit to preserve the real truth, I’ll be more than satisfied.
Q: Can you tell us more about the woman who survived the throat-cutting?
Dr. Zivanovic: She had a Croat surname, Skiba, because she was taken in by an Ustasha and raised to be a good Croat. She was personally baptized by Cardinal Stepinac, who was a good friend of the Ustasha that raised her.
Those that claim Stepinac was ignorant of the forcible conversions aren’t telling the truth. He knew all too well about the forcible conversions, he did them himself.
If the current Pope, whose predecessors all supported the Ustasha, can declare that criminals like Stepinac, Dominik Mandic, Ivan Merc and others are saints, then how can some people in our church speak of reconciliation with the Catholics? We could, but only if they renounce such “saints.” If they recognize the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of the Church, as the Orthodox do, instead of giving that title to their Pope, and then we can talk about ecumenism.
The Commission
Q: How did the Commission of court anthropologists operate, after it was established by the Veterans’ Unions of Bosnia-Herzegovina (15 September 1964) and Croatia (19 September,1964), and what was your mission?
Dr. Zivanovic: Members of the Commission were Vida Brodar of the Ljubljana Institute of Anthropology; Anton Pogacnik, Assistant Anthropologist at the University of Slovenia, and me, then member of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and Assistant at the University of Novi Sad.
We were young and naïve. We were sufficiently young and foolish not to think too much, too filled with pride to have been given such a task. We didn’t know what we were getting into, but we tried to do as best we could. I think we did well.
Pogacnik, unfortunately, died young - at the age of 41, playing basketball, felled by a heart attack. Vida Brodar might still be alive, though she is about a decade older than me.
Every evening, we filled out a log book and signed every page, so that each of us had a copy and a copy was sent to the organizers, so that no one could twist the findings. Though we were young, we were also pretty careful.
The part of the report I did was long sitting in my personal archive as I lived abroad, and then one day I realized that these documents should not be abroad with me, but published in the country. My good friend was the director of the Belgrade Archive, and I asked him if I could donate the documents to the Archive. They did, and the reports were sitting in the Archive for a while, to be eventually found by Kijuk and published. However, that is only a part of the report. I had misplaced the other part, and Kijuk had to look for it all over the place, until he eventually found it. The third part of the report was published for the first time last year. That is the forensic report I had put together. I was the only forensic expert there, the others were anthropologists, so only I could write an actual court forensic report. I wrote about the methods of killing and the efficiency of butchery by Croat and Muslim killers, describing some twenty methods of execution that they used.
Most often they used a mallet to the head, since they said one should not “waste a bullet on Serb swine”, then they used knives and bayonets, especially on pregnant women. And now the Croats ask for names of those unborn children! Then they starved people to death. They would also throw people alive into a furnace at the brick works, which burned at about 1000 C. There were many other ways to kill their victims: hanging, shooting, forcing them to build levees in the rain, and when someone would falter they would be knocked down and buried alive in the levee. Some were thrown into the Sava River to drown, but when they saw the bodies would float up, they began slitting them open. If a body is cut, water gets in and it sinks to the bottom. There were many methods of murder.
Not teaching about the WW2 genocide of Serbs to Serb students should be a crime.
Attention: People in Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro.
Is it true they don't teach this in school?