Dio said: “That’s precisely the point. Ravnagora for some reason decided to post a letter that once again brought up WW2.”
Dio, the “some reason” is the fact that the letter I posted by Rakic was sent to the Washington Times as a direct response to the Kuhner story “Balkan Basket Case”, the subject of this thread. I haven’t checked as of this time, but it will be interesting to see if the Washington Times prints Rakic’s letter.
By the way, World War Two is ALWAYS relevant when it comes to any discussion of Croatia, past or present.
Here is another letter, written by Mr. William Dorich, to The Washington Times, in response to Kuhner’s commentary “Balkan Basket Case”.
Dorich, “for some reason”, Dio, brings up World War Two Croatia as well.
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Letter to the Editor
The Washington Times
Dear Editor:
As a double victim of Genocide, I lost 17 members of my family who were burned to death in a Serbian church in the village of Vojnic, Croatia in 1941 at the hands of Catholic priests and their hateful followers. The late Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia, had the ruins of that Serbian Orthodox church bulldozed in 1995. In August of that year, during Operation Storm when 200,000 Serbs were ‘ethnically cleansed’ from Croatia, the last 5 relatives of my name were too old and too sick to flee. I was notified a month later they were found with their throats slit.
Jeffery Kuhner is not so outspoken—his underhanded journalism exposes an eagerness to omit half of the story when it does not server his purpose. He never mentions a single word in his Washington Times articles about the successful Genocide of 1.2 million Serbs in Croatia from 1941-45, nor the nearly complete elimination of all Serbs from 1991-95. Such contempt for truth, equal rights and equal justice are further mocked by his style of omission journalism.
Kuhner’s remark: “Hundreds of thousands of Croatians were systematically butchered by Tito’s Partisans; priests, nuns and peasants were massacred; their lands were confiscated; and slave labor camps were established” would be laughable if it were not such an irresponsible lie. It is well documented that less than 60,000 Croats were killed, as the vast majority were Nazi collaborators.
What Kuhner has omitted here is that 740 Roman Catholic priests murdered Serbs and Jews with their own hands in the Holocaust then fled to Argentina to escape justice. Fr. Filipovich, a Catholic priest, ran the Jasenovac Concentration Camp where 700,000 Serbs, 40,000 Jews and 70,000 Roma were put to death. Tudjman had that camp and its adjoining museum bulldozed as well to destroy this evidence.
Mr. Kuhner reveals a selective memory, an outrageous double standard and a total lack of journalistic ethics. At least his family and relatives lived a full life, my were cut short in Croatian Genocide twice in my lifetime.
William Dorich
Los Angeles, CA
February 2009
The writer has written 5 books on Balkan history including “Serbian Genocide 1941-45,” co authored with the late David Martin and Michael Lees and his 1992 book, “Kosovo.”
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