Title: (E) HAS MESIC LOST TOUCH WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE Submitted by: Jean W. Marinovic Date: Jan, 06 2002 Category: Politics

HAS MESIC LOST TOUCH WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE?      commentary by      Jean W. Lunt-Marinovic      There have been two defining moments in American culture in the 20th century  which have bound American people in common suffering -- and suffering is what  ultimately binds a nation -- the assassination of President Kennedy and the  terrorist attacks on the 11th of September. The Croatian nation and its  people have been bound in common suffering during the 20th century also.      Firstly, the unprecedented assassination of five Croatian 'front benchers' in  a full session of parliament in Belgrade, by Serbian assassin Punisa Racic,  brought the entire Croatian nation into the streets in mourning and in  protest for several days in 1928. Secondly, after World War II, hundreds of  thousands of Croatian men, women and children were massacred and thrown into  various pits along a march of death ordered by Tito. Current excavations in  Slovenia are uncovering horrific evidence, and many other sources acknowledge  that this tragedy undeniably happened -- sources differing only as to numbers  and who was actually guilty: the Yugoslav Partisans or the British. In the  spring of 1945 the Croatian nation and half a million of its people were  butchered because of the bloody Yugoslav idea -- every Croatian family has  its own victims.      In December 2001, Croatia's President Mesic awarded the highest Croatian  medal to the widow of Sir Fitzroy Maclean posthumously on his behalf. This  latest anti-Croatian outrage is proof that President Mesic of Croatia has  lost all touch with his own people.      Neither the British nor the Americans are anxious to bring up these terrible  crimes against humanity and have kept as much evidence as possible hidden in  archives since WWII. To date no attempt to investigate those post WWII  crimes (against the Geneva Convention 1929), known as the Bleiburg Genocide,  have been carried out at an official level in Britain.      In World War II the British people and Allies worked and fought to defeat  Nazism -- the installation of post-war communist regimes in East and South  Eastern Europe was definitely not the reason that they fought and died.  According to former President Truman in the book 'Strategies of Containment',  Tito killed more than 400,000 of his opponents in communist Yugoslavia before  he could finally establish himself as a dictator. If at least one of Tito's  western allies acknowledged that more than 400,000 of Tito's opponents were  murdered, and other sources agreed that those killed were mostly Croats, then  there was surely even more Croatian victims. These crimes need to be  investigated officially, and certainly not rewarded.      Some evidence has gradually surfaced over the decades from archives to prove  that high-ranking British officials were instrumental in bringing Tito to  power. During WWII Fitzroy Maclean had been the key figure in the making or  breaking of the Yugoslav Partisans. As the British Liaison officer for Prime  Minister Churchill, already stationed inside wartime Yugoslavia, Fitzroy  Maclean (formerly of the British diplomatic service in Moscow and fluent in  Russian) secured Allied support for Tito and the communist 'Yugoslav'  Partisans. The legacy of Fitzroy Maclean went beyond the defeat of Hitler  however. The British decision to support Tito secured the creation of a  second totalitarian communist Yugoslavia which led to the deaths of hundreds  of thousands of innocent Croatian civilians.      There is no doubt that Fitzroy Maclean was well aware of high level orders  regarding the fate of Tito's Croatian opponents, as he dined in Belgrade in  the spring of 1945 with Tito. According to F. Lindsay in 'Beacons in the  Night -- With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia', Americans  assigned to Fitzroy Maclean during WWII accepted the fact that the Yugoslav  operation was under British command. Thus any knowledge or complicity  regarding the post-war genocide of Croatian civilians and prisoners of war  rests with the British more than the Americans, and certainly with 'Tito's  terrorists'.      To this day much controversy and buck-passing still surrounds the  responsibility for the murder of all of Tito's Croatian opposition during the  spring of 1945. The awarding of a medal posthumously to Fitzroy Maclean is  incomprehensible to me, and to Croatian people, and the rational judgment of  the current Croatian president is in question, as is his next election  victory. Who will Mesic punish, or reward next? Punisa Racic? It is as if  Americans awarded a medal to Lee Harvey Oswald or Benedict Arnold, or to Bin  Laden. On thing is for sure, no German leader would ever award a medal  posthumously to Air Vice Marshal Arthur Harris of Bomber Command for the  unnecessary cruel bombing and killing of over a hundred thousand refugees and  civilians in Dresden.      written by    Jean W. 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