CONGRES DES SERBES D’EUROPE - KONGRES SRBA EVROPE
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PRESS RELEASE
Paris, August 5 2015.
N°: 1501
The Croatian crime of genocide with US complicity
of the Krajina Serbs: 1991 - 1995
In order to stop the Islamic invasion of Europe, the Habsburgs created in the sixteenth century a
Military Frontier (Militargrenze in German, Vojna Krajina or Krajina in Serbian) in the then
depopulated area of Krajina where Serbs peasants were invited to settle granting them land in return
for military service. Thus, the Serbs were the majority population in the region of Krajina and were
for centuries the brave border guards of Christendom. Krajina, which for the last four centuries was
populated with a majority Serbian Orthodox population was administrated from Vienna, never from
Croatia.
During World War II, supported by Nazi Germany, the Croats proclaimed the Independent State of
Croatia. The Serbs of Krajina were subject to the most bestial genocide ever experienced in Europe
and were slaughtered, en masse, by the Croatian fascists, the Ustashe. Despite that, some Serbs have
survived the 1941-1945 perpetration of genocide upon them.
The resurrection of Nazi Croatia in 1991 with the backing of Germany, the Vatican and the United
States of America, with financial support and illegal arms shipments from Austria, Hungary,
Germany, and many other European countries, the newly elected neo-Nazi Croatian neo-Ustasi
government was able to finish the genocide the Croats had commenced during Hitler’s time.
On August 5, 1995 with the help and support of the United States of America’s equipment, training,
and aviation, the Serbs were cleansed from their historical land which was under the protection of
the United Nations at that time. This included the killing of hundreds of persons of the Krajina
Serbian civilian population. From 250,000 to 300,000 Krajina Serbs were driven from their
ancestral homes in the largest act of ethnic cleansing since the Holocaust, since the end of World
War II in 1945. Nearly 3,000 Serbs were killed in these act of war crimes, crimes against humanity
and genocide. Serbian houses, homes, businesses, churches, and property were systematically
targeted in an organized genocide. Serbian homes and property were taken over by Croats.
We respectfully remind you that The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9
December 1948 as General Assembly Resolution 260:
Article 2 of the convention defines genocide as
...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
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(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article 3 defines the crimes that can be punished under the convention:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Furthermore, The Statute of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia adopted 25
May 1993 by Resolution 827, as amended 13 May 1998 by Resolution 1166, as amended 30
November 2000 by Resolution 1329, defined the crime of genocide in articles 4 and 5:
Article 4
Genocide
1.
The International Tribunal shall have the power to prosecute persons committing genocide
as defined in paragraph 2 of this article or of committing any of the other acts enumerated in
paragraph 3 of this article.
2. Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) killing members of the group;
(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
3. The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) genocide;
(b) conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) attempt to commit genocide;
(e) complicity in genocide.
It follows that during Operation Storm 1995 the crimes of genocide in Krajina were committed by
the Croatian neo-Nazi Government and with the complicity of the United States of America aiming
to destroy, in whole or in part, the Serbian national, ethnical, racial or religious group inhabiting
Krajina, at this time called the Republic of Serbian Krajina under the protection of the United
Nations.
Since the Serbian victims of the Republic of Serbian Krajina do not have the support of the
Government of the Republic of Serbia to prosecute those responsible for the Croatian crimes of
genocide, we are seeking the help of the international community, and in particular of the members
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of the International Non-governmental Organizations within the Council of Europe, to support our
pleas and to bring to the attention of their respective governments, that the Serbs of Krajina are
victims of the most serious international crimes – namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and
genocide.
Humanity does not have the right to ignore and to remain silent in confronting the perpetrators of
any international crime, and in particular the crime of genocide.
We urge you to help us to bring charges concerning the Croatian genocide to the Council of Europe.
We urge you to help us to bring charges concerning the Croatian genocide to the United Nations
General Assembly.
Sima Mraovitch,
President
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