In the wake of the Balkanese political turmoil, it becomes ever more obvious that the war fought more than half a century ago is still being fought, evaluated and reassessed today. After people have been flooded with unverified atrocity stories supposedly having happened before, during and after the questionable NATO war, what do we get served up?
More bodies- bodies from way back when. NOT massacred by Nazis, but massacred by anti-Nazis.
Here is a week-old AP story, written by Ali H. Zerdin, that ought to make your blood run cold.
Zerdin:
MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) _ More than a thousand human skeletons, believed to be Croats killed by vengeful anti-fascists in the aftermath of World War II, have been discovered in Slovenia, forensic experts said Thursday.
Some 1,179 skeletons had been found by Thursday after a two-week exhumation in an old trench discovered by highway workers near Maribor, northeastern Slovenia.
Franc Podrekar, a forensic expert, told Slovene television that ``many victims had their hands or legs tied with the wire and there are bullet-shaped holes on their skulls.''
Following the exhumations, State Attorney Zdenka Cerar asked for a criminal investigation against "unknown perpetrators."
During World War II, the Croatians _ a disaffected minority in Serb-dominated Yugoslavia _ sided with Nazis who occupied the country in 1941.
Zundelsite:
There are dozens of such sites still waiting to be examined, where tens of thousands of German soldiers and civilians were massacred and dynamited into caves which were then sealed - from the inland of Raab to many other places!
Zerdin:
Tens _ perhaps hundreds _ of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats were killed in Croat-run concentration camps between 1941-45.
In 1945, the pro-fascist regime was defeated and thousands of Croats fled toward Austria, afraid of reprisals from victorious communist partisans.
But when they reached Austria, British officers there turned them over to the communists. Many thousands were killed by the Yugoslav partisans once they crossed into Slovenia, which was part of Yugoslavia.
Slovenian government has not decided yet whether it will continue exhumations. So far, bodies have been exhumed from only a four-yard-long part of the trench, and forensics experts say there are more bodies buried in the rest of the trench.
Zundelsite:
Why not exhume the bodies, identify them, and assign blame? Because the British might not like to have their complicity in these massive war crimes exposed?
Mr. Blair is gung-ho about mass graves in Kosovo - to him we say: "Let all crimes be exposed, regardless of who committed them!"
Zerdin:
Marjan Znidaric, a historian and a director of the Maribor Museum of Contemporary History, estimated that up to 8,000 more skeletons remained buried.
``The trench is 800 yards long,'' Znidaric said. ``Obviously, the victims of this revenge were falling into it one after another.'' <end>
Thought for the Day:
"It would be a strange twist, almost making one believe in a Biblical justice, if that perverse war in Yugoslavia, with a new generation of war crimes/mass graves investigators, found far more mass graves of Allied World War II atrocities than of Serbian-Milosevic misdeeds."
(Ernst Zundel)
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