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They are one of the few. However, less than 90% of the Serbs remained in Croatia. What would be the implications if the Serbs there went to Srbija or Bosna? Since Oluja or operation Storm, they went through Bosna and Srbija.
This could be trivial. Some members of the Serbian basketball team was born in Croatia. Notably:
Predrag "Peđa" Stojaković
Milan Mačvan
Kosta Perović
Zoran Erceg
Đorđe Gagić
Duško Savanović
One exception is the Bosnian Serb Aleksandar "Saša" Vasiljević who was born in Croatia.
In actuality, the Serbs settled in modern Croatia during the 7th century which is current day former Yugoslav republics. Through building kingdoms and empires, monasteries and churches belonging to the Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva, invasion by Ottoman and Hapsburg states, Catholicizing most Serbs from Dubrovnik, and through the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Jugoslavija, they survived like nothing happened.
Then, the Nezavisna Držva Hrvatska imposed their anti-semitical and barbaric war against the Serbian Orthodox population living in Croatia. Serb hunting season started, as Ante Pavelić, Alojzije Stepinac and others supported this fascist state as mentioning "Bog i Hrvati" or "For God and Croats". 700,000 and as more as 1,400,000 were killed, mostly Serbs of course. Few Jews were saved because of the Vatican's rescue efforts like how they are doing also in Poland.
In socialist Yugoslavia, Serbs born in Croatian soil are the ones who are serving as police, government and economic minsters, declaring themselves as Yugoslavs.
Then came, the war. Both Croats and Serbs were fighting for territory and representation. As what i know, when Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, the Serbs want to break from Croatia, like how West Virginia, who was loyal to the Union separated itself from Confederate Virginia. As war rages, both sides committed atrocities. Siege of Vukovar, destruction of Serbian churches and monasteries, Serbian homes were destroyed or forcibly taken by the new Croatian settlers and costing the lives of Josip Kir and Milan Levar in the process of their fair and just Croatia.
USA came to give Croatia total independence, bombing the Krajina Serbs into submission as what is called operation Storm. A storm that lasted a few days, resulting to a death of thousands and quarter of a million ethnically cleansed Serbs escaping to Srbija or other countries as Slobo and his generals abandoned them. Some of them are currently in Serbia or represented the country in all fields while the Croatian Serbs were left served for Croatia. Here are some:
Marko Popović-basketball player
Arijan Komazec-Basketball player
Milorad Pupovac-politician
Vojislav Stanimirović-politician
Željko Jovanović-politician
Branko Grčić-politician
Milanka Opačić-politician
Slobodan Uzelac-politician
Here is just a short summary of the history of Croatian Serbs. I don't know much but this is what truly and is happening now.
"Few Jews were saved because of the Vatican's rescue efforts like how they are doing also in Poland."
ReplyDeleteAlso the Italian soldiers in Croatia saved the Jews for some reason. The Italians aren't usually cold-blooded killers. Italians usually need some personal dispute, motive or vengeance - they can't seem to stomach mass killings of civilian strangers.
As for another Croatian Serb, actually Dalmatian-(half) Serb was the scientist Rutjer Boscovic. He is claimed as a Croat (these days) but his father was Serbian Orthodox from Herzegovina and his mother was Italian. He was a contemporary with Galileo and corresponded with him.
Serbs were attacked first in the Croatian war. In Vukovar you had Tomislav Mercep and his death squads who initiated the killings. Serbs were "arrested" - mostly prominent Serbs, but also some random, and taken to a former fallout shelter. There they were tortured and killed. He was "bundled out" of Vukovar during the fall and he then set up a new death squad in Gospic.
A similar scenario was happening in Osijek with Branimir Glavas. Serbs were being tortured and killed, then their bodies were thrown in the river. There was one Serb who survived this - despite being shot in the head and dumped in the river. I will see if I can find his name.
His name is Radoslav Ratković. He was one of several hospital workers and other Serbs that the Croats were torturing, shooting and then shoving in the Drava river:
ReplyDelete"On the night of December 6 of 1991, however, Osijek Serb Radoslav Ratković was brought to the banks of the Drava River. After unloading him on the bank and forcing him to stand on the steps at the Bastion, the members of the company shot him in the head. He immediately fell into the Drava and sank, but survived and a few minutes later swam to shore and hid in the bushes on the banks of the river. He remained lying there for several hours and soon witnessed the liquidation of well-known Osijek physician, Dr. Milutin Kutlić, whose corpse was found that morning on the banks of the Drava River."
http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/28666/serbs-killed-by-the-sombor-group