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Dinko Sakic, Who Led WWII (Croatian)Death Camp, Dies at 86
NYT ^ | 7/23/08 | DOUGLAS MARTIN

Posted on 7/24/2008, 11:34:58 PM by Bokababe

Dinko Sakic arrived at the concentration camp known as the “Auschwitz of the Balkans” riding a white horse, wearing a tailored black uniform with polished black boots and carrying a whip and a submachine gun, survivors remembered.

His brazenness continued even after Croatia went down to defeat with Nazi Germany, its ally. He fled to Argentina, where he lived for a half century under his real name, making no attempt to hide. In his last decade of freedom, he gave interviews saying he was proud of what he had done and would gladly do it again......

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: croatia; deathcamps; obituary; ustashi; wwii
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Guys like him walked around free for 60 years. Most of them dies of natural causes in their homes, not in prison.
1 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:34:59 PM by Bokababe
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To: Bokababe

I’m shocked that the “Long Arm” of Israel did not snuff this murdering scum out.


2 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:36:23 PM by AmericaUnited
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To: Bokababe

Glad he’s dead. He’ll be in a worse prison from now until, well, eternity.


3 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:36:27 PM by djsherin
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4 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:37:21 PM by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

Is Obama going to pay his respects?


5 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:38:50 PM by mass55th
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To: AmericaUnited
"I’m shocked that the “Long Arm” of Israel did not snuff this murdering scum out."

Most like him never saw the inside of a prison. This guy's boss, Andrija Artukovic, lived openly in the US until the mid-1980's when he was finally deported. But everyone had known who he was and what he had done for all those years.

6 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:42:48 PM by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: mass55th

Maybe he can place a wreath on his tomb, with an Obama 08 banner across it.


7 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:47:13 PM by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Bokababe
He was the protégé of Vjekoslav Luburic, the leader of all Croatian concentration camps, including Jasenovac, a sprawling 150-square-mile conglomeration of several camps. It quickly became known for a brutality that shocked even visiting Nazi officials, one of whom likened it to Dante’s hell. Camp employees devised a knife for the express purpose of slitting throats.

It must have taken quite a lot to "shock Nazi officials".

8 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:47:32 PM by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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Off to his just reward.

9 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:53:47 PM by SJackson (Barack Obama will not be coming to us, I don't know why, Spokesperson US military hospital Landstuhl)
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There are so many real soldiers that risk their lives for their country in battles against other soldiers (who have the ability to shoot back). Then you get guys like this, armed with submachine guns brutalizing unarmed mostly starving men, women, and children. How brave. Not only was Sakic a sadist, but also a candy ass.


10 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:57:51 PM by Rosemont ($4+ for gas. Can we drill now?)
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To: Bokababe

I did some checking... this guy WAS in fact charged and convicted of war crimes in 1999. He was sentenced to 20 years which was the maximum in Croatia at the time...


11 posted on 7/24/2008, 11:59:41 PM by John123 (Obambi said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)
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To: mass55th

only if it is “appropriate”


12 posted on 7/25/2008, 12:00:35 AM by John123 (Obambi said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)
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To: Always Right; mass55th; Bokababe

“Maybe he can place a wreath on his tomb, with an Obama 08 banner across it.”

Yeah, just like Reagan did at Bitburg, right?


13 posted on 7/25/2008, 12:01:19 AM by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Rosemont
There are so many real soldiers that risk their lives for their country in battles against other soldiers (who have the ability to shoot back). Then you get guys like this, armed with submachine guns brutalizing unarmed mostly starving men, women, and children. How brave. Not only was Sakic a sadist, but also a candy ass.

This was a constant moral issue on the Eastern Front. Wehrmacht combat units frequently complained about Einsatzkommandos swaggering about the rear and acting tough by rounding up and killing civilians who couldn't shoot back.

14 posted on 7/25/2008, 12:07:17 AM by fso301
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To: John123
"I did some checking... this guy WAS in fact charged and convicted of war crimes in 1999. He was sentenced to 20 years which was the maximum in Croatia at the time..."

Yes, that's true and the article should ave been clearer about that. But as the article mentioned:

"Many news reports said Croatia decided to extradite Mr. Sakic only to keep him out of the hands of Serbs in the remnants of Yugoslavia, which was also trying to bring him to trial."

There is another Ustashe like Sakic still out there. His name is Milivoj Asner. He is #4 on Operation Last Chance's most wanted list. He was last seen at a Croatian soccer match in Austria, where Austrai claims "he is too sick to stand trial". A reporter tracked Asner & his wife walking around town and sipping wine at the bars for over an hour -- "too sick" indeed.

15 posted on 7/25/2008, 12:15:31 AM by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: AmericaUnited

Actually, an Israeli family bought his ticket to Argentina since he freed them from the Jasenovac camp. They didn’t have to since that was after the war, but they decided to help him out since he helped them out.


16 posted on 7/25/2008, 12:44:34 AM by Diocletian
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To: Rosemont

Actually, most of those in the camp were captured Communists.


17 posted on 7/25/2008, 12:45:17 AM by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian

Actually you are full of BS right now! Decent man knows when to shut his mouth!


18 posted on 7/25/2008, 1:18:10 AM by BabaYaga (BRE!)
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Should we go to the documents provided by the prosecution during the Sakic trial?

Did you know that every witness at the Sakic trial was a Partizan?

19 posted on 7/25/2008, 1:21:15 AM by Diocletian
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What was Jasenovac?

What one can find among numerous links on jasenovac-info.com was this interesting quote:

Excerpt from a speech by Mile Budak in 1941 on the role of "Islamic Croats" in the Independent State of Croatia. This was adopted as policy by the Ustase.
The NDH is an Islamic state wherever our people belong to the Islamic faith. I emphasize this because it is necessary to know that we are a state of two creeds, Catholic and Muslim. We know how big is the role our church has played in our history and therefore we cling to it. We would have held to it even only for political reasons, for it has been the only bulwark that Belgrade could never surmount... We Croats must be happy and proud that we have our faith and at the same time we must be aware that our brother Muslims are also the purest Croats, as our revered leader Ante Pavelic has already declared.

Nevertheless, ustashas didn`t care much for muslim civilians also as they "respected" mostley SS Handzar and other fascistic muslim troups.

from www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org":

"The Ustaša authorities established numerous concentration camps in Croatia between 1941 and 1945.

The Ustaša established Croatia’s first concentration camps in the spring of 1941. Among them were Koprivnica, Pag Island, Jadovno, Krušcica (located in Bosnia-Herzegovina), Ðakovo, Tenje, and Loborgrad. By October 1942, the Ustaša authorities had closed all of these camps. Between August 1941 and February 1942, the Ustaša established the Jasenovac complex of camps—Krapje, Brocica, Ciglana, Kozara, and Stara Gradiška. Krapje and Brocica were closed in November 1941. Ciglana, Kozara, and Stara Gradiška were dismantled in April 1945 as the Ustaša fled the approaching Yugoslav partisans."

No wonder for shameless appologists since it stil is not well known worldwide. Croatian government nowdays stil uses perfid ways to minimize sufferings and some again argue about the "number" of the victims in whole the complex of Jasenovac DEATH CAMPS even on the museum site, what was not very hard since they can always claim "communist propaganda" and because of the fact that most of the official records, documents, books with names of people from orthodox curches and other pre-war institutions were neatly destroyed.

“Far more than shameless.”

20 posted on 7/25/2008, 1:58:54 AM by BabaYaga (BRE!)
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