Posted on 03/14/2006 4:57:28 PM PST by Jane_N
TORONTO, March 13 /CNW/ - Agim Ceku, who is alleged to have led an unprovoked 1993 military attack on Canadian Peacekeepers in the Medak Pocket region of Croatia, has been chosen by Albanians to replace the outgoing prime minister of the U.N.-administered southern Serbian province of Kosovo.
The Medak offensive, allegedly planned by Ceku, is also known as the "Medak massacre". This name is entrenched in the minds of many Canadian Armed Forces personnel as Canada's largest military battle since the Korean War. Four Canadians were wounded in the clash that left nearly 30 Croatian soldiers dead.
According to reputable sources, Agim Ceku was instrumental in the 1993 Croatian military offensive at Medak, and was one of the key planners of the 1995 ethnic cleansing operation 'Storm'. Both of these operations involved the deliberate shelling of civilians, rape, torture, systematic arson, and the permanent expulsion of Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia.
It is an insult to Canada, and in particular the honourable and respected personnel of the Canadian Armed Forces, that Agim Ceku is not behind bars. This recent appointment raises concern that a man who helped plan and execute two campaigns of ethnic cleansing has become the Prime Minister of Kosovo, a province where intolerance towards non-Albanians continues unchecked and unabated.
Over 200,000 Serbs, Jews, and Roma have fled the province of Kosovo due to a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing, while the few who remain live in enclaves and ghettos protected by heavily armed international peacekeepers. More than 2000 non-Albanians have either been killed or kidnapped since 1999.
Yes, right humans rights... like the "human" rights of Albanians to kill Serbs... can't have that right violated can we???? sarcasm off.
About two months before Medak Pocket in the Town of Lipik 4 Croat police officers were ambushed by Serbs and killed. There was another incident before that in May, 1993 but I was on leave at the time. The grave yards on both sides were full of new graves and mass grave investigations were always ongoing. It was an ugly war and no one was innocent.
"Ghosts of Medak Pocket" written by Carol Off. Came out a couple years ago. CBC website might have info on this. She works for them as a reporter.
The only thing that survived in Medak was chickens. Litterally everything else was dead. Heards of dead sheep, cows, horses etc. We found old people in the hills shot in the eye after they could no longer carry packs any further, women raped, shot in the stomach and burned alive in tires. Evidence of body's removed because their brain matter was still dripping off tree leaves....the list goes on. There were a lot of Mercs on the ground. All had US kit but some had new FN Carbons indicating they were probably European.
Police officers aren't civilians - aren't women and children, the elderly, the infirm, etc. Police officers were known for kidnapping torturing and killing Serb civilians.
Can you think of any Croat women, children or old men killed by Serbs?
I know she has written a book, however the reviews complain she doesn't have any of the photos at all - not one - that the Canadians took. There were other things she left out as well, according to a soldier who reviewed her book on Amazon.com.
And this is a great deal different than 4 Croat police officers ambushed during the war, when they were notorious for torturing and killing civilians - it was the Croat police who starting the killings - in Vukovar, for example - to kick off the war in the first place.
You did not say if the Croat police officers were raped or tortured. Sounds like they were killed cleanly.
The KLA wasn't faulted for killing Serb police officers at all - they were doing that because Albanians were "oppressed" - so the mainstream media explains with no apologies.
You cannot equalize police and army killed without torture versus systematic mutilation, rape, killing and burning of civilians - including the elderly and infirm.
Accurate, but only scratches the surface, December 1, 2004
Reviewer: Rich Mills (Halifax, NS Canada) - See all my reviews
I was there. For years I wasn't believed when I spoke of what happened, even when I had photographs to back me up, so I stopped talking about it. Only my family and a few friends believed me at the tme, and I think it was mostly because I wasn't the same person who left for Croatia in April 1993. This book should be read by anybody who thinks peacekeeping is a warm and fuzzy, Sesame Street-type exercise. There is a reason why the soldiers who take part in these operations don't refer to it as peacekeeping but call it military operations other than war, or MOOTWA for short. We did what many couldn't or wouldn't do.
I do have a few problems with The Ghosts of Medak Pocket. The two maps provided in the hardcover version are wholly inadequate, and dozens of towns, regions and battles are discussed but never situated within a geographic visual aid. Off also mentions that a number of soldiers took their own pictures in the aftermath of the ethnic cleansing, but her book provides no pictures whatsoever. Given the emotionally intense subject matter, a few of these photos would be very informative.
The Croatians exterminated the ethnic Serb population. That was their aim from the beginning. Serbia did not exterminate its Croat population or Muslim population. Foreign powers are interested in created separate, ethnically pure puppet statelets in the Balkans. The Serb population, the largest and most ethnically cohesive of the former Yugoslavia was an obstacle. Therefore they were set up, provoked, demonized and attacked with plenty of overt and covert help from NATO countries.
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