The ethnic cleansing of Dubrovnik, 12 years ago
1. On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in modern
Europe began / 1 oktobra 1991 pocelo je najvece etnicko ciscenje jednog
grada, u savremenoj Evropi
2. On ethnic Serbs in Croatia and their property rights (on the
situation of Zadar Serbs)
=== 1 ===
Da: "minja m."
Data: Gio 2 Ott 2003 05:18:14 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in
modern Europe began
------------- Forwarded Massage ---------------------------------
Date: 1 Oct 2003 01:54:08 EDT
From: SCofSAvasko
On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in modern
Europe began. Of about 10 000 Serbs living in Dubrovnik, 90% were
friven out in a couple days, forever.
Today, twelve years later, none have returned. Illustrious Dubrovnik
families –– Apolonio, Reljic, Pejovic,Lucic, Elakovic, Zecevic,
Boskovic (descendants of the glorious Rudjer Boskovic), Kovac, Bazdar,
Simic, Krivokuca, Vukasinovic, Segrt, Ciganovic, Markovic, Puljizevic,
Groseta and many others, all expelled in a genocidal war.
Lawyers, professors, medical doctors, philosophers, journalists and
other intellectuals “vacated” their job spots for rabid west
Herzegovinian extremists, the pre–eminent Croatian Nazis –– the
Ustashas.
Today they rule the once multi–ethnic city, which had been an oasis of
freedom for centuries.
Serbs and other Dubrovnikers again this year, on the day of the
expulsion, implore all of you who can to relay this letter to European
and world organizations, to make possible our return to our own houses,
now occupied by thieves, and resume life in their native city.
(signed)
Dubrovniker in Exile
=======
1 oktobra 1991 pocelo je najvece etnicko ciscenje jednog grada, u
savremenoj Evropi.
Od oko 10 hiljada Srba, za par dana, zauvijek je iz Dubrovnika
protjerano preko 90%, a dvanaest godina kasnije, nema povratnika.
Ugledne stoljetne dubrovacke familije, Apolonio, Reljic, Pejovic,Lucic,
Elakovic, Zecevic, Boskovic (nasljednici slavnog Rudjera), Kovac,
Bazdar, Simic, Krivokuca, Vukasinovic, Segrt, Ciganovic, Markovic,
Puljizevic, Groseta i mnoge druge, protjerane su iz Dubrovnika u
genocidnom ratu.
Advokati, profesori, doktori, filozofi, novinari i drugi intelektualci
"otvorili" su radna mjesta za ekstremne zapadne Hercegovce, poznate kao
ustase, koji danas vladaju nekada visenacionalnim gradom, oazom
stoljetne slobode.
Srbi i ostali Dubrovcani, i ove godine, na dan progona, mole sve Vas
koji mozete, da ovo pismo dostavite svim nadleznim evropksim i
svjetskim organizacijam, kako bi se vratili u svoje okupirane kuce i
kako bi nastavili zivot u rodnom Gradu.
Dubrovcanin u egzilu
=== 2 ===
Da: Predrag Tosic
Data: Gio 19 Giu 2003 03:15:53 Europe/Rome
A: yugoslaviainfo <Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.>
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] On ethnic Serbs in Croatia and their property
rights
[ Zadar is in the north-west of Croatia, perhaps the third largest
city along Croatia's Adriatic coast (after Split and Rijeka). Prior to
1991, Zadar had a sizable Serb population. Most of those Serbs have
fled. Now, some of the Zadar Serbs are trying to re-claim their
property rights to apartments and houses that they (used to) live in,
and still (de jure) own in the city. "Feral Tribune" is a leading
daily in Split, Croatia. This newspaper is well-known for its
anti-fascist, anti-chauvinist and anti-Tudjman stance throughout the
1990s. Viktor Ivancic is one of the editors and leading columnists of
"Feral Tribune". -- PT ]
Feral Tribune, Split, Croatia
December 14, 2001
Why no one reacted to the scandalous list of "Serbs from Zadar who are
demanding restitution of their houses and publicly owned apartments",
published in Zadarski List
TOP-LIST OF HYPERREALISTS
If we can talk about ideology as far as Racan's administration is
concerned - or at least retarded form of missionary zeal - then its
common
thread is symbolically represented as a role of a savior that separates
two
warring sides in a staged civil war
by Viktor IVANCIC
Late last month Zadarski list published an interesting serial. In two
installments, the newspaper published a list of "Serbs from Zadar who
are
demanding restitution of their houses and publicly owned apartments".
The
structure of the article is also interesting: number, name and surname,
address, and so on over several pages. Thus, Zadarski list managed to
find
and unmask as many as 450 "Serbs from Zadar" who, what an outrage, are
"demanding restitution of their houses and publicly owned apartments".
This
reading material, with names, addresses and criminal demands of "Serbs
from Zadar" was included in the section named "Events".
Until today, not one of the competent or incompetent individuals or
institutions in Croatia has reacted to this shameful public call for
lynching that imitates the best traditions of the Croat journalism in
the
early 90's or, if you prefer, German journalism in the late 30's. The
black
list simply rolled off the presses into the Zadar public without a
peep, as
something that is totally natural and reasonable, just like it totally
made
sense to declare a war crimes suspect for a citizen of honor without a
single local councelor casting, including those that belong to Racan's
party, a no vote.
If Croatia were a country that upholds at least minimal democratic
standards, the journalistic endeavor of Zadarski list would have been
suppressed with highly undemocratic methods. For example, the newspaper
would have been banned, the remaining copies confiscated and destroyed,
while the editor-in-chief would have been banned from working in the
media
long enough to make sure he gets plenty of time to write righteous
protests
against "suppression of free speech". However, Croatia is not such a
country. Here democratic conventions are respected mostly when it comes
to
those who advocate "dialogue" regarding freedom of execution and similar
modes of plural killing fields.
In that sense the black list with 450 names, addresses and criminal
demands,
is only a logical consequence of the cry of Ms Zeljka Antunovic, deputy
prime minister, about how the executive authorities would never
restitute
denied tenancy rights to "Serbs from Zadar", or any Serbs for that
matter.
Naturally, Ms Antunovic is not a person who would stoop to compiling
lists
for execution or differentiating between people based on ethnicity, God
forbid - she only cares about ideas, she does not care about people and
numbers. Tomorrow, if there are physical assaults on "Serbs from Zadar"
- or
any other Serbs - who, look, screw it, keep demanding restitution of
their
tenancy rights, Ms Antunovic would be the first one to demand that
Police be
sent to the location of the incident "to separate warring sides". That
is
the true position that the ruling political elite has reserved for
itself:
that of a cheap hypocritical buffer-zone. On duty 24 hours a day.
Last Monday, on the Day of Human Rights about ten activists headed for
Slunj wanting to appeal for the removal of a monument commemorating
Ustashe warrior Jure Francetic - standing on Franjo Tudman Square. They
were greeted by about two hundred rabid local "Jure-fans" with curses,
baseball bats, and fists. The Croatian authorities made an appearance
embodied as a police cordon which, at the last moment, prevented the
hosts from festively massacring the guests.
It was an explicit realization of Racan's political mission. On the one
side
a handful of fringe elements who are uncritically aghast that a
democratic
country allows building of monuments commemorating Ustashe butchers, on
the other side another handful of fringe elements that uncritically
adulates
Ustashe and plastic arts, and in between these two groups - people's
government! Concerned expression of the political will that with
corrective
baton in the right hand and rubber bullets held in reserve, prevents
social
"extremes" from killing each other.
If we can talk about ideology as far as Racan's administration is
concerned - or at least a retarded form of missionary zeal - then its
"common thread" is symbolically represented as a role of a savior that
separates two warring sides in a staged civil war. In order to cement
that
position, it is necessary to place the two opposing "extremist" groups
at
the same level, and that is usually done with a regular portion of
ideological slaps for the "left", and a pile of practical compromise and
para-patriotic understanding for the "right". An honest Croat
intellectual,
after receiving a salary from the state, put together the phrase
"leftists
terrorists". Thus, stage is being set (namely, a front line is being
prepared) for the appearance of a defective party Messiah whose
self-image,
unfortunately, is that of a hygienic tampon for the nation that keeps
bleeding.
One of the public supporters of the government on duty - otherwise a
prosecution witness in the trial of the student leaders in 1971, who now
ejaculates euphoric outbursts of repentance daily - has for months been
systematically developing a model of "balance of power" that equates
outbursts of fascist violence with struggle against it. "Is there any
difference between arrest warrants printed in Feral and those plastered
on
walls in Karlovac?" he wandered at a time. Let us remind our readers
that
"posters plastered on walls in Karlovac" included photographs of 130
Serbs
in uniforms of former Krajina police with the headline "Our neighbors".
The
posters were made, printed and distributed by the man who organized
ritual
pissing in Veljun on the monument commemorating Serbs shot by Ustashe in
1941 and revealed that he was behind both endeavors at the ceremony
marking the setting up of a monument commemorating warrior Jure
Francetic in Slunj.
The technique, practiced for decades in Communist and ideological
commissions, is always the same. For example, our government supporter
does not react to the publishing of a shameful execution list in
Zadarski List,
but will only pipe up after someone else criticizes the list (as Feral
is
yet again doing), only to righteously and wisely slap on the wrist both
"warring sides". He is the comrade-institution, with police baton in his
right hand, who always watches over us preventing the looming bloodbath
while secretly hoping it actually happens.
However, the ejaculator from Slobodna Dalmacija, who is here mentioned
only as an illustration that is supposed to make the article more
amusing - is
only a loudspeaker for Racan's ideological muddle. The real truth is
that
the current Croat authorities did not compile lists of "Serbs from
Zadar" -
or any other Serbs - nor did they build monuments commemorating Ustashe
officers. They only did nothing to prevent, or appropriately sanction
both.
They only preventively stopped application of the existing law and
emptied
the tanks of bulldozers that were supposed to demolish illegally
constructed
objects, even though these objects are merely monuments commemorating
achievements of notorious fascists. In that diligent inaction the
authorities found the saving formula for their efficiency and
self-preservation. Hyperactive inaction is the only way to occupy the
space
of its imaginary purpose, namely the illusion that it is continuously
"bringing to order" those that it has indirectly set on each other.
This planned recklessness, planned excommunication of its own political
role
from the creation of the current Croat nightmare and its boiling down
to the
purported "fixing" of the effect of the incited reality - besides being
contrary to all the achievements and principles of the civilization - is
pushing the ruling elite in the trap of a grotesque paradox. "We cannot
be
responsible for somebody else's crap," Racan's administration tells us,
"because we act only when we have to".
Translated on March 14, 2003
--- End forwarded message ---
1. On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in modern
Europe began / 1 oktobra 1991 pocelo je najvece etnicko ciscenje jednog
grada, u savremenoj Evropi
2. On ethnic Serbs in Croatia and their property rights (on the
situation of Zadar Serbs)
=== 1 ===
Da: "minja m."
Data: Gio 2 Ott 2003 05:18:14 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in
modern Europe began
------------- Forwarded Massage ---------------------------------
Date: 1 Oct 2003 01:54:08 EDT
From: SCofSAvasko
On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in modern
Europe began. Of about 10 000 Serbs living in Dubrovnik, 90% were
friven out in a couple days, forever.
Today, twelve years later, none have returned. Illustrious Dubrovnik
families –– Apolonio, Reljic, Pejovic,Lucic, Elakovic, Zecevic,
Boskovic (descendants of the glorious Rudjer Boskovic), Kovac, Bazdar,
Simic, Krivokuca, Vukasinovic, Segrt, Ciganovic, Markovic, Puljizevic,
Groseta and many others, all expelled in a genocidal war.
Lawyers, professors, medical doctors, philosophers, journalists and
other intellectuals “vacated” their job spots for rabid west
Herzegovinian extremists, the pre–eminent Croatian Nazis –– the
Ustashas.
Today they rule the once multi–ethnic city, which had been an oasis of
freedom for centuries.
Serbs and other Dubrovnikers again this year, on the day of the
expulsion, implore all of you who can to relay this letter to European
and world organizations, to make possible our return to our own houses,
now occupied by thieves, and resume life in their native city.
(signed)
Dubrovniker in Exile
=======
1 oktobra 1991 pocelo je najvece etnicko ciscenje jednog grada, u
savremenoj Evropi.
Od oko 10 hiljada Srba, za par dana, zauvijek je iz Dubrovnika
protjerano preko 90%, a dvanaest godina kasnije, nema povratnika.
Ugledne stoljetne dubrovacke familije, Apolonio, Reljic, Pejovic,Lucic,
Elakovic, Zecevic, Boskovic (nasljednici slavnog Rudjera), Kovac,
Bazdar, Simic, Krivokuca, Vukasinovic, Segrt, Ciganovic, Markovic,
Puljizevic, Groseta i mnoge druge, protjerane su iz Dubrovnika u
genocidnom ratu.
Advokati, profesori, doktori, filozofi, novinari i drugi intelektualci
"otvorili" su radna mjesta za ekstremne zapadne Hercegovce, poznate kao
ustase, koji danas vladaju nekada visenacionalnim gradom, oazom
stoljetne slobode.
Srbi i ostali Dubrovcani, i ove godine, na dan progona, mole sve Vas
koji mozete, da ovo pismo dostavite svim nadleznim evropksim i
svjetskim organizacijam, kako bi se vratili u svoje okupirane kuce i
kako bi nastavili zivot u rodnom Gradu.
Dubrovcanin u egzilu
=== 2 ===
Da: Predrag Tosic
Data: Gio 19 Giu 2003 03:15:53 Europe/Rome
A: yugoslaviainfo <Ova adresa el. pošte je zaštićena od spambotova. Omogućite JavaScript da biste je videli.>
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] On ethnic Serbs in Croatia and their property
rights
[ Zadar is in the north-west of Croatia, perhaps the third largest
city along Croatia's Adriatic coast (after Split and Rijeka). Prior to
1991, Zadar had a sizable Serb population. Most of those Serbs have
fled. Now, some of the Zadar Serbs are trying to re-claim their
property rights to apartments and houses that they (used to) live in,
and still (de jure) own in the city. "Feral Tribune" is a leading
daily in Split, Croatia. This newspaper is well-known for its
anti-fascist, anti-chauvinist and anti-Tudjman stance throughout the
1990s. Viktor Ivancic is one of the editors and leading columnists of
"Feral Tribune". -- PT ]
Feral Tribune, Split, Croatia
December 14, 2001
Why no one reacted to the scandalous list of "Serbs from Zadar who are
demanding restitution of their houses and publicly owned apartments",
published in Zadarski List
TOP-LIST OF HYPERREALISTS
If we can talk about ideology as far as Racan's administration is
concerned - or at least retarded form of missionary zeal - then its
common
thread is symbolically represented as a role of a savior that separates
two
warring sides in a staged civil war
by Viktor IVANCIC
Late last month Zadarski list published an interesting serial. In two
installments, the newspaper published a list of "Serbs from Zadar who
are
demanding restitution of their houses and publicly owned apartments".
The
structure of the article is also interesting: number, name and surname,
address, and so on over several pages. Thus, Zadarski list managed to
find
and unmask as many as 450 "Serbs from Zadar" who, what an outrage, are
"demanding restitution of their houses and publicly owned apartments".
This
reading material, with names, addresses and criminal demands of "Serbs
from Zadar" was included in the section named "Events".
Until today, not one of the competent or incompetent individuals or
institutions in Croatia has reacted to this shameful public call for
lynching that imitates the best traditions of the Croat journalism in
the
early 90's or, if you prefer, German journalism in the late 30's. The
black
list simply rolled off the presses into the Zadar public without a
peep, as
something that is totally natural and reasonable, just like it totally
made
sense to declare a war crimes suspect for a citizen of honor without a
single local councelor casting, including those that belong to Racan's
party, a no vote.
If Croatia were a country that upholds at least minimal democratic
standards, the journalistic endeavor of Zadarski list would have been
suppressed with highly undemocratic methods. For example, the newspaper
would have been banned, the remaining copies confiscated and destroyed,
while the editor-in-chief would have been banned from working in the
media
long enough to make sure he gets plenty of time to write righteous
protests
against "suppression of free speech". However, Croatia is not such a
country. Here democratic conventions are respected mostly when it comes
to
those who advocate "dialogue" regarding freedom of execution and similar
modes of plural killing fields.
In that sense the black list with 450 names, addresses and criminal
demands,
is only a logical consequence of the cry of Ms Zeljka Antunovic, deputy
prime minister, about how the executive authorities would never
restitute
denied tenancy rights to "Serbs from Zadar", or any Serbs for that
matter.
Naturally, Ms Antunovic is not a person who would stoop to compiling
lists
for execution or differentiating between people based on ethnicity, God
forbid - she only cares about ideas, she does not care about people and
numbers. Tomorrow, if there are physical assaults on "Serbs from Zadar"
- or
any other Serbs - who, look, screw it, keep demanding restitution of
their
tenancy rights, Ms Antunovic would be the first one to demand that
Police be
sent to the location of the incident "to separate warring sides". That
is
the true position that the ruling political elite has reserved for
itself:
that of a cheap hypocritical buffer-zone. On duty 24 hours a day.
Last Monday, on the Day of Human Rights about ten activists headed for
Slunj wanting to appeal for the removal of a monument commemorating
Ustashe warrior Jure Francetic - standing on Franjo Tudman Square. They
were greeted by about two hundred rabid local "Jure-fans" with curses,
baseball bats, and fists. The Croatian authorities made an appearance
embodied as a police cordon which, at the last moment, prevented the
hosts from festively massacring the guests.
It was an explicit realization of Racan's political mission. On the one
side
a handful of fringe elements who are uncritically aghast that a
democratic
country allows building of monuments commemorating Ustashe butchers, on
the other side another handful of fringe elements that uncritically
adulates
Ustashe and plastic arts, and in between these two groups - people's
government! Concerned expression of the political will that with
corrective
baton in the right hand and rubber bullets held in reserve, prevents
social
"extremes" from killing each other.
If we can talk about ideology as far as Racan's administration is
concerned - or at least a retarded form of missionary zeal - then its
"common thread" is symbolically represented as a role of a savior that
separates two warring sides in a staged civil war. In order to cement
that
position, it is necessary to place the two opposing "extremist" groups
at
the same level, and that is usually done with a regular portion of
ideological slaps for the "left", and a pile of practical compromise and
para-patriotic understanding for the "right". An honest Croat
intellectual,
after receiving a salary from the state, put together the phrase
"leftists
terrorists". Thus, stage is being set (namely, a front line is being
prepared) for the appearance of a defective party Messiah whose
self-image,
unfortunately, is that of a hygienic tampon for the nation that keeps
bleeding.
One of the public supporters of the government on duty - otherwise a
prosecution witness in the trial of the student leaders in 1971, who now
ejaculates euphoric outbursts of repentance daily - has for months been
systematically developing a model of "balance of power" that equates
outbursts of fascist violence with struggle against it. "Is there any
difference between arrest warrants printed in Feral and those plastered
on
walls in Karlovac?" he wandered at a time. Let us remind our readers
that
"posters plastered on walls in Karlovac" included photographs of 130
Serbs
in uniforms of former Krajina police with the headline "Our neighbors".
The
posters were made, printed and distributed by the man who organized
ritual
pissing in Veljun on the monument commemorating Serbs shot by Ustashe in
1941 and revealed that he was behind both endeavors at the ceremony
marking the setting up of a monument commemorating warrior Jure
Francetic in Slunj.
The technique, practiced for decades in Communist and ideological
commissions, is always the same. For example, our government supporter
does not react to the publishing of a shameful execution list in
Zadarski List,
but will only pipe up after someone else criticizes the list (as Feral
is
yet again doing), only to righteously and wisely slap on the wrist both
"warring sides". He is the comrade-institution, with police baton in his
right hand, who always watches over us preventing the looming bloodbath
while secretly hoping it actually happens.
However, the ejaculator from Slobodna Dalmacija, who is here mentioned
only as an illustration that is supposed to make the article more
amusing - is
only a loudspeaker for Racan's ideological muddle. The real truth is
that
the current Croat authorities did not compile lists of "Serbs from
Zadar" -
or any other Serbs - nor did they build monuments commemorating Ustashe
officers. They only did nothing to prevent, or appropriately sanction
both.
They only preventively stopped application of the existing law and
emptied
the tanks of bulldozers that were supposed to demolish illegally
constructed
objects, even though these objects are merely monuments commemorating
achievements of notorious fascists. In that diligent inaction the
authorities found the saving formula for their efficiency and
self-preservation. Hyperactive inaction is the only way to occupy the
space
of its imaginary purpose, namely the illusion that it is continuously
"bringing to order" those that it has indirectly set on each other.
This planned recklessness, planned excommunication of its own political
role
from the creation of the current Croat nightmare and its boiling down
to the
purported "fixing" of the effect of the incited reality - besides being
contrary to all the achievements and principles of the civilization - is
pushing the ruling elite in the trap of a grotesque paradox. "We cannot
be
responsible for somebody else's crap," Racan's administration tells us,
"because we act only when we have to".
Translated on March 14, 2003
--- End forwarded message ---