*In Serbia, my home country, many people are doomed not to celebrate their 60th birthdays- they will die of cancer. *
Sounds like the curse of Franz Ferdinand. How do you sleep with the resultant deaths of hundreds of millions in both world wars that followed crushing down on you?
"This organized anti-Serb and pro-Muslim propaganda should cause anyone believing in democracy and free speech serious concerns. It recalls Hitler's propaganda against the allies in World War II. Facts are twisted and, when convenient, disregarded." - Yohanan Ramati, Director of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense.
"The HDZ (current ruling party of Croatia) adopted the old symbols of the fascist Ustasha (Nazi) regime from World War II. The new Croatian authorities have chosen as the state symbol the same checkered shield." - Mechen Shelah, Israel Historian, University of Haifa.
"What worries us, is that those in power in Croatia are largely the same as in the Nazi era. In some cases, they are exactly the same people, now in their seventies and back from exile under Communists. In other cases, they are children of the Ustash." (Croatian Nazi Party). - Jewish leader, scholar and historian, Dr. Klara Mandich, The London Independent.
"Thank God my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew." -Former Croatian president Franjo Tudjman from his book, "Wastelands of Historical Reality." He was referring to the over one million Serbs, Jews and Gypsies who died so brutally in Croatia's death camps during WWII, it even appalled the German SS.
"Genocide is a natural phenomenon, in harmony with the societal and mythologically divine nature....Genocide is not only permitted, it is also recommended, even commanded by the world of the Almighty Yaweh, whenever it is useful for the survival or the restoration of the kingdom of the chosen nation [is he referring to Germany as well as Croatia???] or for the preservation and the spreading of its one and only current faith." [Catholicism]. - Former Croatian president Franjo Tudjman from his book, "Wastelands of Historical Reality."
"But you can understand Croatia best by saying flatly that if there is one place in the world where a statue of Adolph Hitler would be revered, it would be in Zagreb (the capital of Croatia). - Edward Pearce, the [London] Evening Standard, 7 August 1995, "Victory smiles that hide the roots of evil."
"Croats will 'kill people for the color of their skins." - U.S. Colonel Fontenot, Commander of NATO forces in northeastern Bosnia.
"Kill all Serbs and Jews including children so that not even the seeds of the beasts are left." - Andrija Artukovic, Minister of the Interior in the "Independent State of Croatia."
"Pictures of dead or wounded (or raped) Serbs often fill the screens of the world's television and print media, only to be re-labelled as dead or wounded or raped Croats or Muslims. Many Serbian victims -- and the bulk of the victims of the conflict, contrary to popular reports, have been Serbs either from Bosnia and Herzegovina or from Croatia -- not only suffer the indignity of defeat in death; they also are used in death as models in the macabre image, manipulation operation of the Croatians and the Muslim Bosnians. If the Vietnam War was lost to the United States by the negative television images of its own reporters, then the Balkan war against the Serbs are being won by Ustashi Croatia and the Muslim Bosnians by an active, planned manipulation of international television." - Gregory R. Copley, Editor-in-Chief, Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, (London) 31 December 1992.
It should be noted that the map that exists today of the Balkans is almost identical to the map Hitler had envisioned.