Balkan 'Auschwitz' haunts Croatia

bbc.co.uk ^ | Monday, 25 April, 2005, 17:03 GMT 18:03 UK | BBC

[dennisw]

Looks like you were raised in a philo-Semitic household.

[dennisw]

My parents also had a few of H Golden's books. "2¢ Plain" among them

[FormerLib]

I believe all of us can clearly recall identical film footage and news photos of the ethnic factions seeking revenge on each other during the Balkan wars of the 1990's.

I can't believe you posted a shot of that faked prison photo. The photographer took the photos while we was standing inside a small unused pen at a refugee camp.

[M. Espinola]

"I can't believe you posted a shot of that faked prison photo. The photographer took the photos while we was standing inside a small unused pen at a refugee camp."

Was ongoing slaughter in the former Yugoslavia, on all sides, faked? In Yugoslavia there were no good guys.

[ma bell]

let me ask where you recieve/d your information from? I've been there numerous times in the 90's, what about you?

Your gross misrepresenting those photos without verifying their integrity shows your ineptness.

[M. Espinola]

"let me ask where you recieve/d your information from? I've been there numerous times in the 90's, what about you?"

A lot of people were in various parts of Yugoslavia during the 1990's. Russians were there fighting for the Serbs. Germans were there fighting for the Croats. Iran even sent Islamic terrorist to fight on the side of the Muslims in Bosnia & Kosovo. As I stated previously nobody's hands are clean, not one side nor the other.

If you can be a bit more specific. In terms of World War Two or the Balkan wars of the 1990's?

"Your gross misrepresenting those photos without verifying their integrity shows your ineptness."

"those photos"? Which photos?

Funny you are the only one making such unsubstantiated comments.

Which side are you speaking of. Which year? Next you will tell everyone, everything that took place in Yugoslavia from 1941 forward is simply a huge invention.

I do not have a 'side' in the brutal wars that took place in the Balkans, do you?

[M. Espinola]

I shall reprint what I already stated and you reprinted as well>

'I believe all of us can clearly recall identical film footage and news photos of the ethnic factions seeking revenge on each other during the Balkan wars of the 1990's.' (also the 1940's)

Which photo are you speaking of and the era would help since you have not supplied any info other than "photo" thus how can I begin to respond?

The title of this thread is "Balkan 'Auschwitz' haunts Croatia" Is that the problem?

I would ask you, are the people in any of the photos from WWII onward, are they forged or faked in any way. What is the your problem, the photos of the Nazis, their countless victims? It happened just like it happened in Poland, France, Italy, Norway and Eastern Europe.

Were people on all sides butchering each other in the former Yugoslavia during the early 1940's, and then again in the 1990's?

[ma bell]

use your fricking brain and not "overthink" what the question is, numbnuts.

[M. Espinola]

"use your fricking brain and not "overthink" what the question is, numbnuts."

You are abusive and should not be allowed on FR.

[ma bell]

oh please! grow some think skin, will ya, platoon boy? waaaah!

[M. Espinola]

That was your last abusive post to me.

Do not post me anything again.

[montyspython]

You're lack of intellectual honesty is abusive.

[M. Espinola]

(Your remark) I spend nights grieving over it.

What's the matter, you didn't like the fact I did not pick sides in the Balkan/Yugoslav wars but simply presented historic data coupled with photographs? All sides have dirty hands.

[montyspython]

Yeah.... right.

[ma bell]

mr espy is thin-skinned, bewarned, he cries.

[Banat]

There was not much hatred between Serbs and Croats prior to WWI. In fact, as early as the 1850s, intelligentsia from both Serbia and Croatia (then under Austro-Hungarian rule) collaborated and worked on the unification of all the Southern Slavs (the roots of Yugoslavia).

During WWI Croatian soldiers of the A-H Army committed atrocities against the Serbian population in Croatia and Bosnia. They would do the same some 25 years later - to a much greater extent - in WWII.

700,000 Serbs perished in Croatian concentration camps during WWII.

[Joey Silvera]

That's "your" and not "you're", Mr. Intellectual

[Joey Silvera]

Monty's upset that you dared to post photos depicting Serbian Chetniks cavorting with Nazi officers...and pictures don't lie

[montyspython]

Typos are all that you have Sparky?

Not much for 'out of the box' thinking are you?

[montyspython]

Are you implying that the picture he posted of the supposedly emaciated Muslim behind the barbed wire was the real deal?

Surely Joey you jest?