[sui massacri perpetrati dagli ustascia croati, con l'appoggio ed il
concorso del clero cattolico, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale si
veda, in lingua italiana:
"L'arcivescovo del genocidio"
di Marco Aurelio Rivelli - edizioni Kaos, Milano 1999]
Subject: Glina Church massacre posted on the web
From: "Petar Makara"
Date: Mon, December 22, 2003 11:22 pm
Dear friends,
I am almost done (photographs and all) with study of
Glina church massacre. It can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
The stills I took from the video can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/CinePro/index.htm
I had to add much more to this documentary in order
to make the study more complete. I then added it all to:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ww2.html
Please take a look.
Regards to all,
Petar
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
---
The World Must Know about...
Glina Massacre!
BUTCHERY INSIDE THE CHURCH
In a small town of Glina, Krajina, more than two thousand Serbs were
murdered, in a single night. That August night, 1941, most of the
victims were butchered with knives -- right inside their own,
Christian shrine. There was so much blood flowing that it spilled over
the church's threshold out to the street. The appalling crime was done
with full knowledge and approval of the Vatican. It did not matter that
the victim Serbs were also Christians the same as their Croat Nazi
murderers. For centuries Catholic Church was teaching the Croats that
their Serbian neighbors were "wrong" Christians. For Vatican the Serbs
were "Schismatics" because they were sticking to their Eastern
Orthodox roots; to the branch of Christianity that did not change
their ways of Christ worship for the last two millennia.
The hand of the Vatikan, the Croat Nazis known as Ustashas, knew no
mercy. No one was to survive. No one was to tell what happened. One
Serbian peasant did survive.
The sole survivor forgives
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html%5d
In February, 1991, only months before revamped Croat Nazis are to
attack Krajina again, Ljubo Jednak, the sole survivor of the Glina
church massacre talks to the journalists. A simple Serbian peasant who
sticks to his roots and his Christian principles Mr. Jednak says: "To
no one on earth do I wish evil. I never wished evil to any one, not
even to those from whose hands I suffered so much." This Serbian
attitude and willingness to forgive is the only explanation of how
peaceful life, for so many decades after WWII, betweeen the Serbs and
their Croat tormentors was possible.
Documentary: "Something told me I will live"
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
In 1990's German and American politicians, with the intention to
conquer the Balkans, decided to reopen the terrible WWII wounds. Once
again "divide and conquer" game was to be played with the Balkan
people. Once again, deeply rooted Croat separatism and chauvinism was
to be used as a tool. Mr. Jednak, the sole survivor of Glina massacre,
gets surprised again by Croat Nazi blind hatred of the Serbs. Once
again he has to run for his life. In August 1995, almost to the day of
Glina church massacre anniversary, Mr. Jednak leaves his house and
everything he ever owned in Glina and joins endless column of Krajina
Serb refugees. In the safety of Serbia he tells, once more, the story
of how he survived the slaughter. We obtained the video documentary.
Here is the transcript.
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
There is no excuse
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-why.html%5d
No one ever tried to find an excuse for the Glina church massacre.
There is no excuse. We dared compare Glina church massacre to some
other known massacres of World War II Europe. There is no excuse that
the world did not get to know about the event, either. Croat Communist
Tito, downplayed the event in the name of declared "Brotherhood and
Unity." It was a design that was to use the Serbian capacity to forgive.
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html
KEY WITNESS TO THE USTASHA HELL
Ljuban Jednak:
"How I survived Ustasha hell"
by Ljubomir Tesic
Published in newspaper "Blic,"
on May 20, 1997
As the sole survivor of Ustasha massacre of Serbs in Glina church,
Ljuban Jednak was a key witness in a law suit against Artukovic and
Stepinac. In 1995 he was expelled from Glina.
I was with Ljuban Jednak four times. I listened to his testimonies and
wrote them down during his testimonies in the Artukovic trial, in
Glina in 1991, then in 1992, and the last time, in 1995 when he came
to Belgrade as a refugee - sad, unhappy, desperate as the evil of half
a century ago was repeating itself in similar ways. While documenting
this unheard of kind of suffering, I was guided by two things: TRUTH
and that this evil will never be repeated again.
These days all media -- electronic and printed ones -- reported the sad
news: At age eighty one, Ljubo Jednak, the sole surviving witness to
the slaughter in Glina's [Serb] Eastern Orthodox church "God-mother's
Birth" died. He survived the infamous Ustasha hell that happened in the
night between August 3rd and 4th, 1941 - on Saint Ilija's Day. That
otherwise very popular Eastern Orthodox holiday was the day when some
1,500 Serbian men were brutally murdered [inside the Glina church] -
mostly by use of [Ustasha invented knife-glove known as]
"Serb-cutter." "Serbosjek".
Their only guilt was that they were born as Serbs.
Ljuban Jednak died as a refugee in poverty and with a tortured soul. He
was particularly upset by Serbian disunity. His last wish was to rest
at the graveyard where, for centuries, his forefathers were buried in
Banija and Kordun [parts of Krajina.] That wish, unluckily will never
be fulfilled. What was not achieved by [Ustasha fuhrer] Pavelic and
Hitler was now achieved by revamped Croatia under Tudjman and with help
of USA, Germany and the Vatican. Banija, Kordun, the entire Krajina,
home to the Serbs for many centuries is now ethnically cleansed of the
Serbs.
Six years ago, during a news conference, ABC News reporter Sergey
Bodich asked then Croatian Minister of War Sime Djodan whether he ever
visited Banija and whether he was informed that the sole survivor of
1941 Glina church massacre, Mr. Jednak, is again in the same if not
worse situation. Mr. Jednak's house is demolished, ruined, burned and
he is forced again, half a century later, to run to save his bare life,
this time from so-called Croatian National Guard, the Croat army that
sports the same symbols and the same behavior of Pavelic's Nazis.
Obviously at the very edge of verbal explosion, Croat Minister of War,
Mr. Djodan said: "Sir, do not spread Chetnik [WWII Serb anti-Nazi
guerilla] propaganda here! Those gentlemen of Banija were first
Chetniks and then they joined [Tito's] partisans. That gentleman you
are talking about had a project in 1941 -- and he still has it -- whose
purpose is to destroy anything Croatian."
Ljubo Jednak talks
The name of the hero of this story is Ljubo Jednak, a Serb born in 1916
in Seliste a village near the town of Glina. Despite the untold horror
he went through, despite the path from the hell of death to life he
travelled, he was able to keep intact both his physical and mental
health.
After the war [WWII], he was the key witness in the lawsuits about the
Ustasha genocide perpetrated on the Serbian people. He was a witness in
trials of Dr. Andrija Artukovic [Ustasha Minister of Interior who spent
40 years as a free man in California] and Dr. Alojzije [Aloysius]
Stepinac [the head of the Croatian Church during the Ustasha reign of
horror, the Ustasha spiritual leader]. He was also a witness in other
trials of Ustasha war criminals.
As an introduction to the February, 1991 conversations we had with
Ljuban Jednak, we have written his words describing the situation in
Glina then.
Mr. Jednak lived in Glina all his life until his exodus in 1995.
He said, [then, in February, 1991, only a few months before the civil
wars of 1990's started]:
"I have four grandchildren. Two are here in Glina, and two are there in
Zagreb [capital of Croatia]. My daughter Dushanka was born after the
war, and she lives in Zagreb. The other two sons I have are here in
Glina. The older one, Dushan has no children. He has his own house.
Our youngest son, Stevo, lives with us, with me and my wife Stana,
who I married just before the war. Stevo married a Croatian woman. It
is a happy marriage. There is no difference between us and Croats. Our
customs are the same. Our language is the same. Only the fait is
slightly different. That slight difference was and still is the only
source of evil. Stevo and his wife have two children, my beloved
grandchildren."
"I am just preserving [smoking] the meat. I hope to eat it in happiness
and peace. I will serve it to my guests who are always welcome no
matter who they are or where they came from. I also have my plum trees.
At some point I had more cattle, some sheep and cows. I got old, and my
strength betrayed me so I cannot do it all. I have only some chickens
left. Sometimes I keep some pigs just so we have meat for some special
occasion."
"I live here in Glina, on Rinana Street, right next to the cattle
market. This house belonged to some Serbs. Ustashas slaughtered two
Serbian men during the great slaughter of 1941. Only a woman and a
small baby remained. Later on the woman died and the daughter left for
America. It was a long time ago. I do not know whether she is still
alive. This house was in ruins, abandoned. I bought it from the Jaric
family. I build it again and kept renewing and fixing it."
"I have only two acres of land outside of Glina, now. Before I had
more. After the war, I was a professional soldier. Soon, I saw I am not
good at it. I love a peaceful life tied to the land, the house and
fruit trees. If we could only live in peace. Every human being comes
to this earth, as nature granted that life, to live, if possible, in
peace and happiness. Of course - if possible."
"I am not involved in politics. To no one on earth do I wish evil. I
never wished evil to any one, not even to those from whose hands I
suffered so much."
"It is really hard for me, being so old, to tell again and to live
through that slaughter once again, the slaughter I survived only by a
miracle. I told it so many times. I was a witness. I am always upset
and shocked even when I look so peaceful and composed."
[End quote]
Translator's notice:
The photo copy of the "Blic" article we obtained ends about here. In
the continuation, we will present translation of the transcript from
the "Cine Pro" video documentary done by Pancevo author Miroslav
("Mika") Stankovic.
So, what was it that this simple Serbian peasant, Ljubo Jednak, was
ready to forgive?
Mr. Jednak starts talking about his exodus from his Glina house in
August, 1995. He ran, he left everything he ever owned during the
Croat-American operation "Storm." The Croat army with Ustasha insignia
was the ground force. The US provided air cover to the despicable
Nazis.
Mr. Jednak speaks in dense, compact sentences which teem with
information. Interestingly, he addresses his audience in present tense
even when he talks about the times long gone. For him, they may not
be. This gives the horror he went through additional power.
He speaks with a certain calm as if he were floating above it all.
This simple, warm person, so tied to the ground, the fruit trees and
the always bittersweet life of a peasant tries to describe
indescribable. . . .
I believe he found words where there are no words.
Petar Makara,
December 2003
concorso del clero cattolico, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale si
veda, in lingua italiana:
"L'arcivescovo del genocidio"
di Marco Aurelio Rivelli - edizioni Kaos, Milano 1999]
Subject: Glina Church massacre posted on the web
From: "Petar Makara"
Date: Mon, December 22, 2003 11:22 pm
Dear friends,
I am almost done (photographs and all) with study of
Glina church massacre. It can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
The stills I took from the video can be found at:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/CinePro/index.htm
I had to add much more to this documentary in order
to make the study more complete. I then added it all to:
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ww2.html
Please take a look.
Regards to all,
Petar
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-intro.html
---
The World Must Know about...
Glina Massacre!
BUTCHERY INSIDE THE CHURCH
In a small town of Glina, Krajina, more than two thousand Serbs were
murdered, in a single night. That August night, 1941, most of the
victims were butchered with knives -- right inside their own,
Christian shrine. There was so much blood flowing that it spilled over
the church's threshold out to the street. The appalling crime was done
with full knowledge and approval of the Vatican. It did not matter that
the victim Serbs were also Christians the same as their Croat Nazi
murderers. For centuries Catholic Church was teaching the Croats that
their Serbian neighbors were "wrong" Christians. For Vatican the Serbs
were "Schismatics" because they were sticking to their Eastern
Orthodox roots; to the branch of Christianity that did not change
their ways of Christ worship for the last two millennia.
The hand of the Vatikan, the Croat Nazis known as Ustashas, knew no
mercy. No one was to survive. No one was to tell what happened. One
Serbian peasant did survive.
The sole survivor forgives
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html%5d
In February, 1991, only months before revamped Croat Nazis are to
attack Krajina again, Ljubo Jednak, the sole survivor of the Glina
church massacre talks to the journalists. A simple Serbian peasant who
sticks to his roots and his Christian principles Mr. Jednak says: "To
no one on earth do I wish evil. I never wished evil to any one, not
even to those from whose hands I suffered so much." This Serbian
attitude and willingness to forgive is the only explanation of how
peaceful life, for so many decades after WWII, betweeen the Serbs and
their Croat tormentors was possible.
Documentary: "Something told me I will live"
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
In 1990's German and American politicians, with the intention to
conquer the Balkans, decided to reopen the terrible WWII wounds. Once
again "divide and conquer" game was to be played with the Balkan
people. Once again, deeply rooted Croat separatism and chauvinism was
to be used as a tool. Mr. Jednak, the sole survivor of Glina massacre,
gets surprised again by Croat Nazi blind hatred of the Serbs. Once
again he has to run for his life. In August 1995, almost to the day of
Glina church massacre anniversary, Mr. Jednak leaves his house and
everything he ever owned in Glina and joins endless column of Krajina
Serb refugees. In the safety of Serbia he tells, once more, the story
of how he survived the slaughter. We obtained the video documentary.
Here is the transcript.
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-massacre.html%5d
There is no excuse
[http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Glina-why.html%5d
No one ever tried to find an excuse for the Glina church massacre.
There is no excuse. We dared compare Glina church massacre to some
other known massacres of World War II Europe. There is no excuse that
the world did not get to know about the event, either. Croat Communist
Tito, downplayed the event in the name of declared "Brotherhood and
Unity." It was a design that was to use the Serbian capacity to forgive.
---
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jednak.html
KEY WITNESS TO THE USTASHA HELL
Ljuban Jednak:
"How I survived Ustasha hell"
by Ljubomir Tesic
Published in newspaper "Blic,"
on May 20, 1997
As the sole survivor of Ustasha massacre of Serbs in Glina church,
Ljuban Jednak was a key witness in a law suit against Artukovic and
Stepinac. In 1995 he was expelled from Glina.
I was with Ljuban Jednak four times. I listened to his testimonies and
wrote them down during his testimonies in the Artukovic trial, in
Glina in 1991, then in 1992, and the last time, in 1995 when he came
to Belgrade as a refugee - sad, unhappy, desperate as the evil of half
a century ago was repeating itself in similar ways. While documenting
this unheard of kind of suffering, I was guided by two things: TRUTH
and that this evil will never be repeated again.
These days all media -- electronic and printed ones -- reported the sad
news: At age eighty one, Ljubo Jednak, the sole surviving witness to
the slaughter in Glina's [Serb] Eastern Orthodox church "God-mother's
Birth" died. He survived the infamous Ustasha hell that happened in the
night between August 3rd and 4th, 1941 - on Saint Ilija's Day. That
otherwise very popular Eastern Orthodox holiday was the day when some
1,500 Serbian men were brutally murdered [inside the Glina church] -
mostly by use of [Ustasha invented knife-glove known as]
"Serb-cutter." "Serbosjek".
Their only guilt was that they were born as Serbs.
Ljuban Jednak died as a refugee in poverty and with a tortured soul. He
was particularly upset by Serbian disunity. His last wish was to rest
at the graveyard where, for centuries, his forefathers were buried in
Banija and Kordun [parts of Krajina.] That wish, unluckily will never
be fulfilled. What was not achieved by [Ustasha fuhrer] Pavelic and
Hitler was now achieved by revamped Croatia under Tudjman and with help
of USA, Germany and the Vatican. Banija, Kordun, the entire Krajina,
home to the Serbs for many centuries is now ethnically cleansed of the
Serbs.
Six years ago, during a news conference, ABC News reporter Sergey
Bodich asked then Croatian Minister of War Sime Djodan whether he ever
visited Banija and whether he was informed that the sole survivor of
1941 Glina church massacre, Mr. Jednak, is again in the same if not
worse situation. Mr. Jednak's house is demolished, ruined, burned and
he is forced again, half a century later, to run to save his bare life,
this time from so-called Croatian National Guard, the Croat army that
sports the same symbols and the same behavior of Pavelic's Nazis.
Obviously at the very edge of verbal explosion, Croat Minister of War,
Mr. Djodan said: "Sir, do not spread Chetnik [WWII Serb anti-Nazi
guerilla] propaganda here! Those gentlemen of Banija were first
Chetniks and then they joined [Tito's] partisans. That gentleman you
are talking about had a project in 1941 -- and he still has it -- whose
purpose is to destroy anything Croatian."
Ljubo Jednak talks
The name of the hero of this story is Ljubo Jednak, a Serb born in 1916
in Seliste a village near the town of Glina. Despite the untold horror
he went through, despite the path from the hell of death to life he
travelled, he was able to keep intact both his physical and mental
health.
After the war [WWII], he was the key witness in the lawsuits about the
Ustasha genocide perpetrated on the Serbian people. He was a witness in
trials of Dr. Andrija Artukovic [Ustasha Minister of Interior who spent
40 years as a free man in California] and Dr. Alojzije [Aloysius]
Stepinac [the head of the Croatian Church during the Ustasha reign of
horror, the Ustasha spiritual leader]. He was also a witness in other
trials of Ustasha war criminals.
As an introduction to the February, 1991 conversations we had with
Ljuban Jednak, we have written his words describing the situation in
Glina then.
Mr. Jednak lived in Glina all his life until his exodus in 1995.
He said, [then, in February, 1991, only a few months before the civil
wars of 1990's started]:
"I have four grandchildren. Two are here in Glina, and two are there in
Zagreb [capital of Croatia]. My daughter Dushanka was born after the
war, and she lives in Zagreb. The other two sons I have are here in
Glina. The older one, Dushan has no children. He has his own house.
Our youngest son, Stevo, lives with us, with me and my wife Stana,
who I married just before the war. Stevo married a Croatian woman. It
is a happy marriage. There is no difference between us and Croats. Our
customs are the same. Our language is the same. Only the fait is
slightly different. That slight difference was and still is the only
source of evil. Stevo and his wife have two children, my beloved
grandchildren."
"I am just preserving [smoking] the meat. I hope to eat it in happiness
and peace. I will serve it to my guests who are always welcome no
matter who they are or where they came from. I also have my plum trees.
At some point I had more cattle, some sheep and cows. I got old, and my
strength betrayed me so I cannot do it all. I have only some chickens
left. Sometimes I keep some pigs just so we have meat for some special
occasion."
"I live here in Glina, on Rinana Street, right next to the cattle
market. This house belonged to some Serbs. Ustashas slaughtered two
Serbian men during the great slaughter of 1941. Only a woman and a
small baby remained. Later on the woman died and the daughter left for
America. It was a long time ago. I do not know whether she is still
alive. This house was in ruins, abandoned. I bought it from the Jaric
family. I build it again and kept renewing and fixing it."
"I have only two acres of land outside of Glina, now. Before I had
more. After the war, I was a professional soldier. Soon, I saw I am not
good at it. I love a peaceful life tied to the land, the house and
fruit trees. If we could only live in peace. Every human being comes
to this earth, as nature granted that life, to live, if possible, in
peace and happiness. Of course - if possible."
"I am not involved in politics. To no one on earth do I wish evil. I
never wished evil to any one, not even to those from whose hands I
suffered so much."
"It is really hard for me, being so old, to tell again and to live
through that slaughter once again, the slaughter I survived only by a
miracle. I told it so many times. I was a witness. I am always upset
and shocked even when I look so peaceful and composed."
[End quote]
Translator's notice:
The photo copy of the "Blic" article we obtained ends about here. In
the continuation, we will present translation of the transcript from
the "Cine Pro" video documentary done by Pancevo author Miroslav
("Mika") Stankovic.
So, what was it that this simple Serbian peasant, Ljubo Jednak, was
ready to forgive?
Mr. Jednak starts talking about his exodus from his Glina house in
August, 1995. He ran, he left everything he ever owned during the
Croat-American operation "Storm." The Croat army with Ustasha insignia
was the ground force. The US provided air cover to the despicable
Nazis.
Mr. Jednak speaks in dense, compact sentences which teem with
information. Interestingly, he addresses his audience in present tense
even when he talks about the times long gone. For him, they may not
be. This gives the horror he went through additional power.
He speaks with a certain calm as if he were floating above it all.
This simple, warm person, so tied to the ground, the fruit trees and
the always bittersweet life of a peasant tries to describe
indescribable. . . .
I believe he found words where there are no words.
Petar Makara,
December 2003