Ćirilica Zoran Blagojević, Nedeljko Mitrović i Zdravko Jorgić at a press conference A horrific crime which has all elements of genocide was committed against Serbs on Mt Ozren but unfortunately, no one has yet been prosecuted for them, says Nedeljko Mitrovic, the head of the Association of Families of Detained and Fallen Veterans and Missing Civilians of Republika Srpska. “No one in Bosnia and Herzegovina has yet been brought to justice for those crimes, except for the deceased commander of the so-called Army of BiH, Rasim Delic, who was sentenced by the Hague war crimes tribunal to three and a half years in prison,” Mitrovic told a press conference in

Ćirilica An hours drive into Croatia from the Serbian border along the A3 (E-70) motorway is a turning south to the village of Brocice. A few minutes drive beyond on the north bank of the river Sava is the site of the WWII Jasenovac concentration camp, burial ground, memorial and museum. The camp was set up by the Ustasa led wartime Independant State of Croatia and was active between August 1941 – April 1945. The estimated number of people murdered at Jasenovac vary up to 700,000 with ethnic Jews, Serbs and Roma being  the main victims of horribly sadistic extermination methods. Despite the fact that the Jasenovac victim numbers are

Photos by Nenad Obradović ([email protected] see www.obradovic.co.uk) The Jasenovac and Holocaust Memorial Foundation (JHMF) has tabled a proposal to the European Parliament to mark 21 August as International Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) during World War II. Through a network of concentration camps, killing of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies was conducted on an industrial scale in the Nazi puppet regime which encompassed all of modern day Croatia and Bosnia. 21 August 1941 marks the date that the killing machine started. All British parliamentarians have been invited to support this initiative and a special request for support was also sent to the chairman

Ćirilica Veliku priču o stradanju u Jadovnu nisu otkrile i obznanile institucije kojima bi to trebala biti dužnost, već pojedinci i udruženja, svojim novcem i velikom energijom Predsjednik UG Jadovno 1941., dr Dušan Bastašić Razgovarao: Željko Svitlica Šokantno je i opštedruštveno porazno samo saznanje, da većina Srba danas ne bi znala ama baš ništa reći, kada bi ih pitali: Šta je Jadovno? U pitanju je kompleks logora smrti na potezu Jadovno – Gospić – Pag, u kojem su vlasti Nezavisne Države Hrvatske  1941. godine za 132 dana ubile i u more ili kraške jame pobacale preko 40.000 ljudi. Uglavnom Srba, njih oko 38.000. Zbog tog genocida je i buknuo srpski

Ćirilica “….whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester,” Pope Frances in St Peter’s Basilica / April 2015./ April 2015. was marked by the anniversaries of the Armenian/1/ and  the Serbian genocide/2/. The first commemorated the centenary of deportations that culminated in the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenian Christian citizens of the Ottoman Empire/1//3/. The second commemorated seventy years from escape of imprisoned from Jasenovac/1941.-1945/ Croatian NDH-ustasha death camp. Jasenovac was part of the system of numerous concentration and death camps, in which more than a million Serbs, dozens of thousands Jews and Roma were tortured and murdered in the manner that disgusted even their

Ćirilica Exhibition Prebilovci opened An exhibition about the crimes committed by the Ustashe in 1941 titled “Prebilovci” opened this evening in Belgrade. The Ustashe killed 850 Serbs out of a total of 1,000 residents of this Serbian village in the Herzegovina, and this village, according to a research done by the Japanese Asahi Shimbun paper, is the place which suffered the most in WWII in Europe. The exhibition was blessed by His Eminence the Bishop of the Zahumlje-Herzegovina and the Littoral, Grigorije, who said that the exhibition is important since it is in Belgrade “where there are many people who still do not know that there is Prebilovci with such

Ćirilica More than 11,000 children from 219 Kozara small towns and villages were killed. Average age of 11,194 killed boys and girls was 6.5 By Ana Bencun The Ustasha knife designed for mass slaughter of Serb children in the Second World War incites extremely strong emotions in all visitors of the exhibition “Anatomy of Oblivion” displayed at the National and University Library (NUB) of Republika Srpska. “Only when you take the knife in your hand and ask yourself: What is this? How does this work? you realise the dread of the events that the exhibition talks about,” one of the exhibition authors, Vanja Smulja, has told Srna. The knife was

Ćirilica Both the victims and the killers have their names, but they also have roots and the reasons why they were what they were. The former were in pits, the latter were above the pits. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in Jasenovac By Nenad Tadic Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic paid a visit to Jasenovac and paid her respects to the victims of the Ustasha Independent State of Croatia (NDH) without any media escort or state delegation, as if she were going on a private visit. As a civilian, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic surely has the right to go like that to the site of one of the worst crimes (crime of genocide) in

Ćirilica A Holy Liturgy was served in the Church of the Holy Great Martyr George in the Banjaluka community of Drakulic on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the Ustashe massacre of the Serbian residents of this community. The Republika Srpska Minister of Labour and Veterans’ Affairs, Milenko Savanovic, said that this crime must never be forgotten and that Srpska’s institutions will give their full contribution to efforts to mark it. “We all should be united and ready for certain things that can be repeated,” Savanovic said. The president of the Republika Srpska Organisation of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians, Nedeljko Mitrovic, noted that the

Srpski Proud mountains, snow, rain and landslides, lush vegetation, covered the trail of tears of Serbian and Jewish victims. The Sea near the island of Pag swallowed thousands of men, women and children, Serbs and Jews. By Danka Kojadinovich Too many words have been spent in recent decades in attempts to analyze the civil wars of the late twentieth century in the Balkans. There were some analysts trying to atomize the Balkans in order to destabilize Europe, in the interest of the unilateral force, the US. There were some articles dealing with the influence of local (and less of the global) media on the escalation of ethnic and religious conflicts, attributing to them

Ćirilica – Memorial service was held on Sunday at the Church of St. Marco in Belgrade for the Serbs killed in the period 1991-1997 in Grubisno Polje and East Bilogora. After the memorial service, families of the victims laid wreaths at the monument for Serb victims killed in 1991-2000 wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia. President of Bilogora Homeland Association Milan Bastasic said that the residents of Bilogora were the first victim of the ethnic cleansing carried out by Croatian paramilitary forces in Operation “Swath” in November 1991. He recalled that 4,000 Serbs were expelled then, while 40 civilians, women, children and elderly, were killed, as well as 24

Ćirilica The Zagreb’s “Večernji list” (“Evening News”) published a four part serial by Ivo Palčić about camps on the Island of Pag, on Wednesdays from 14th May 1975 to 4th June 1975. The serial was a result of talks with Ante Zemljar whose book “Charon and Destinies” contains information which helped find these serial parts. A large contribution of Zemljar’s work in finding the truth about horrible place of genocide over Serbs and Jews is revealed in the serial parts presented here. The Ustashi camp “Slana”, in which 10,000 to 15,000 detainees, man, women and children had been murdered in only three months of the Ustashi rule in 1941, is