From: pavlovic-milan@CS.YALE.EDU (Milan Pavlovic)
Subject: Fascism Reawakens in Croatia, Charges Jewish Leader
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:16:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.144029.19002@src.umd.edu> josip@src.umd.edu (Josip Loncaric) writes:

>Mr. Pavlovic, you are charging at windmills.  Ustashe policy of genocide 
>was criminal and Croats know it -- I have certainly said so many times.
>But your posting's logic is that
>
>(WWII Ustashe) = (Croats in general in WWII) = (Croats in general today)
>
>which is blatantly false because
>
>(1) Croats had resisted Ustashe in WWII
>(2) Croats today know what Ustashe did and reject it.

Croats never apologized, and I doubt they ever will. What is even worse, there
is a reawakening of fascism and genocidal policy in Croatia.  I will quote 
an article from "The Jewish Advocate", of January 24-30, 1992.
Without permission, for academic purposes only.
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	Fascism Reawakens in Croatia, Charges Jewish Leader

By Klara Mandic

  THE FOLLOWING WAS SENT TO THE ADVOCATE BY DR. KLARA MANDIC FROM YUGOSLAVIA.
DR. MANDIC IS A JEWISH LEADER, FOUNDER AND GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE SERBIAN-
JEWISH FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY WHICH PROMULGATES GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SERBIAN
AND JEWISH PEOPLES WHO HAVE LIVED TOGETHER IN YUGOSLAVIA FOR CENTURIES.  THE
SOCIETY ORGANIZED A SERBIAN WEEK IN ISRAEL LAST YEAR DURING WHICH 23 SERBIAN
CITIES BECAME SISTER CITIES WITH 23 CITIES IN ISRAEL.  IT ALSO ORGANIZED A 
SOLIDARITY VISIT TO ISRAEL BY THE MAYORS OF 15 SERBIAN CITIES DURING THE
PERSIAN GULF WAR.  SHE WRITES THAT RECENT EVENTS IN CROATIA ARE GENERATING
ECHOES OF WORLD WAR II THAT ARE VERY DISTURBING.

  Ankica Konjuh survived the infamoust Croatian concentration camp, Jasenovac,
where tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were exterminated during
World War II.  The elderly Jewish woman did not survive Croatian extremists in
her own village of Petrinja who, in September of 1991, according to witnesses,
shot her in the legs, tied her to a fence, poured gasoline over her and set her
aflame after she spoke out against attacks on her Serbian neighbors.  Ankica
Konjuh was the first documented Jewish victim of Croatian extremists in
Yugoslavia's civil war.

  Virtually unrecognized by the world, there is a reawakening of fascism in
Europe today that is most evident in Croatia and in a reunited Germany.  The
world community must be awakened to this emerging threat to humanity and
stimulated to take appropriate action now.

  In Germany there has been a neo-Nazi resurgence with neo-Nazi "skinheads"
stoning the housing of foreign workers while neighbors cheered them on in
Hoyerswerds last September.  This sparked a surge of violent attacks against
"foreigners" which the German government moved to deal with only after weeks
of criticism.  The televised images of these attacks are like an echo from
Germany's Nazi past.  In Yugoslavia the echo is even louder.

  In the accessionist republic of Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman has
steadfastly refused to disassociate himself and his government from the World
War II fascist Independent State of Croatia, which was allied with Nazi
Germany and which carried out a vicious policy against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies
that claimed hundreds of thousands of victims.  As Tudjman led Croatia toward
secession after his election in 1990, there was systematic escalation of
intimidation and violence aimed at Serbs and abuse of their human rights.

  President Tudjman revived the symbolism of the World War II fascist 
Independent State of Croatia in a new flag, demanded written declarations of
loyalty to the new Zagreb government, arbitrarily fired thousands of Serbs from
their jobs, denied them the right to use the Cyrillic alphabet, and prohibited
them from operating their own schools.  Tudjman's Croatian Democratic Party
armed "reliable Croats" and Serbs were subjected to beatings and other
physical violence.  More than 150,000 fled Croatia to seek refuge in Serbia,
Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

  Serbs in Croatia, not unreasonably, fear a repetition of the horror they
experienced in World War II.  Decades have pased.  Communism has passed. 
But fear of a new genocide grows.

  The Jewish people suffered 6 million victims of genocide in World War II.
Never again!  In Israel the Jewish people took up arms to defend themselves,
their children and their country.  Serbs suffered 700,000 victims of genocide
in World War II.  Never again!  Threatened with a new genocide, the Serbian
people have fought back to protect themselves, their children and their 
country.

  The first major foreign policy initiative of a reunited Germany has been to 
press for immediate recogntion of the secessionist republics of Slovenia and
Croatia.  This initiative was undertaken despite the fact that recognition
encourages Croatia to continue the war and undercuts the efforts of the
United Nations to secure a lasting cease fire to allow introduction of U.N.
peacekeeping forces that could protect innocent civilians and create conditions
in which a fair and just settlement could be negotiated.

  Despite opposition from the United States and the U.N. Secretary General, the
European Community, in a concession to German demands, agreed to recognize
Croatia and Slovenia on January 15, 1992 after requiring that the republics
meet some requirements for democratic rule and give guarantees of human rights.
But the echoes of history grow louder and in view of Croatia's history no Serb
in Croatia can feel cofident that such guarantees will be honored.

  We are experiencing a rebirth of fascism in Croatia that is abetted by a 
reunited Germany.  Jews cannot stand silent.  We must speak out.

  During World War II many Serbs took great personal risks, many died to hide 
and protect Jewish families in Yugoslavia from Croatian fascists and Nazis.
Ankica Konjuh knew this.  She took a stand when her Serbian neighbors were
threatened by Croatian neo-fascists.  She gave her life.  It is time for Jews
everywhere to take a stand, time to insist that political leaders recognize
what is happening.

  Serbs in Croatia should have the same right to self-determination as 
Croatians who wish to secede from Yugoslavia and create an independent state.
Any just settlement must recognize that Serbs in Croatia cannot, with good
reason, feel secure in an independent state of Croatia.  Serbs have been the
first victims of a secessionist Croatia.  Ankica Konjuh was the first Jewish
victim.  Who among us will be next?
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Regards,
Milan Pavlovic
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