Politics Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina--injustice

[Rastko Pocesta]

You don't seem to understand.
It still was the USA against Russia.

Your first comment was great and I wish I could give you reputation for it but I have to spread it around first before giving it to you again (although Maciano got 1 from me for Montenegro & Kosovo). You don't know the facts.

Russia recognised independent Croatia before United States did that. Russia recognised Croatia on 17 February 1992, while USA did that on April 7, 1992. Russia was 47th, while USA was 56th to recognise independent Croatia. Check out this - http://tinyurl.com/686mcb9

War in Yugoslavia was like this:
June 25, 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia secede from Yugoslavia
June 27, 1991 - Yugoslavia invades Croatia and Slovenia
July 7, 1991 - After EU intervenes with Brijuni declaration, war in Slovenia ends with a peace agreement.
August 25, 1991 - After two months of bloody fighting in Croatia, probably the worst and most painful part of that war begins - Vukovar.
October 8, 1991 - After 3 months moratorium expires, Croatia ceases all relations with Yugoslavia.
November 18, 1991 - The tragedy of Vukovar ends with Croatian surrender.
January 15, 1992 - European Union recognises independence of Croatia and Slovenia.
February 29 and March 1, 1992 - On a referendum in Bosnia and Herzegovina (there was a similar one in Croatia in May 1991), majority of population votes for independence.
April 5, 1992 - After invasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, siege of Sarajevo begins.

Rest of 1992 is decline of peace agreements by the Bosnian Serbs (directly supported by the tyrannical regime in Yugoslavia). It was the bloodiest year of the conflict, along with 1995 when it ended. On May 25, 1993 United Nations Security Council and its respective members, China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Spain, Hungary, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan and Venezuela, unanimously adopt resolution S/RES/827 hereby establishing International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia which aims to prosecute individuals responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the conflict. Earlier that same year, Bosnia and Herzegovina accuses Yugoslavia of genocide to the International Court of Justice (the case ended in February 26, 2007 with the judgement which concluded that genocide took place in Srebrenica in July 1995 and that although Serbia is not guilty of it, it was able to stop it, but it didn't).

In March 1994 Croatia, which committed crime of aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, along with Yugoslavia, ends conflict with it (actually agreement is signed by Mate Boban, president of Herzeg Bosnia, croatian puppet in Bosnia and Herzegovina, not the Croatian regime itself).

On July 11, 1995 Bosnian Serbs occupy Srebrenica and in approximately next 10 days they kill at least 8000 unarmed civilians. In August 1995, Croatian Government commits the joint criminal enterprise, the ethnic cleansing of over 150 000 Serbian civilians which flee to Serbia. On November 21, 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement is achieved and on December 14 it is signed in Paris. That agreement finally ends the Yugoslav conflict.

 

[Srbosjek]

War in Croatia (for those who dont know).
Let's get some facts straight.
Year 1991: Serbs are 11% of Croatia's population.
They support Slobodan Milosevic's pan-Serbian movement which took JNA/Yugoslav Army under Serbian control. This Army has been financed by all Yugoslav republics (Serbia plus Montenegro 36%, Croatia 28%, Slovenia 19%,..). So, Serbs literally “stole” all these planes, tanks, ships, rockets, guns, howitzers, … and, via their fifth column, Croatian Serbs, embarked upon their provincial imperial expansion: they wanted to occupy the entire Bosnia and Herzegovina & ca. 70% of Croatia. This was a combined aggression: Serbia proper + Montenegro +JNA + Croatian Serbs.
During expansionist aggression against Croatia, JNA deployed 4 out her 6 armored brigades, and 11 out 12 mechanized ones.
Thanks to president Tudjman's wise manoeuvres, Croatia has, by the end of 1991., partially armed herself, so after the truce, Serbs began their butchering in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Year 1995: Srebrenica massacre had happened & the world was fed up with Serbian savagery. Croatia, now armed & ready, launched a two-pronged assault (160.000 against Serbian para-state “Krajina”, 55.000 dug in Eastern Slavonia as the deterrent against Milosevic). The rag-tag Army of Croatian Serbs (40.000 of them) virtually collapsed in two days & fled, along with them their families- perhaps 120-150.000 people in all. In the meantime: from 1991-1995 Serbs in the UN protected zones in Croatia (the so called UNPA zones of "Krajina") murdered more than 600 elderly and incapacitated Croats, mostly peasant women- while Danish, Dutch, Kenyan and Jordanian troops just looked by; during Operation Storm, in the sector where general Gotovina was in charge- they just fled, even before Croatian troops arrived. Let's be frank: the Hague court tries to compensate Serbs, emotionally, for the loss of Kosovo. And that's all.
Just to remind people what Serbs are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SufjAxwZNQ