DPA, June 8:

Bilic plays ultra-nationalist band to players after victory

Vienna - Slaven Bilic played the music of Croatian ultra- nationalist rock band Thompson to his players in the team dressing room after his side defeated Austria 1-0 thanks to a Luka Modric penalty in their opening Group B match in Vienna. "Our players were not entirely satisfied," said Bilic "so I turned on the CD player and told them to sing because after all we won."

Bilic, who himself plays in a rock band called, Rawbau didn't say which Thompson song was played but the band's radical lyrics and controversial comments from lead singer Marko Perkovic led to the group being banned from performing in the Netherlands in 2004.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center complained to Croatian President Stipe Mesic last year when Perkovic said: "I have nothing against the Jews, but neither did Jesus Christ, yet still they crucified Him."

A concert scheduled to take place in the Austrian province of Carinthia this weekend was cancelled due to security concerns but Perkovic instead received an invite from Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider to watch one of Croatia's two games in Carinthia, against Germany and Poland.

Perkovic, a superstar in Croatia, goes by the stage name Thompson - after the American submachine gun he toted for Croatia during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Critics say his songs glorify the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime that ruled Croatia during World War II and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews, Serbs and other Croats. A Perkovic tour of the United States last year drew protests from Jewish groups.

Perkovic says his songs are patriotic, but rejects the fascist label. The band performed for Austria's large Croatian community in Vienna in 2007 without stirring protests.

One of Thompson's songs, Lijepa li si("You are beautiful" which refers to Croatia) is traditionally played at matches involving the Croatian national football team. However, the song was not played last year when the opposition was Israel.

We agree that Thompson's growing rock-star legitimacy is a disgrace, but we'll point out that the author of that last piece, Jared Israel, is a sucker for Slobodan Milosevic—and we suspect that you are as well, "1389." When Slobo-suckers complain about Croatian fascism, all we can say is "a plague on both your houses."

Is democracy dead or it is only hypocritical!?

“Kathleen Stephens is the Deputy Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for Central and Southern Europe. During a visit to Croatia on Wednesday [18 May], she spoke exclusively to our newspaper, explaining the recent presentation of a medal to the daughter of Chetnik leader Draza Mihailovic. She also spoke about obstacles in relations with Croatia, as well as about U.S. views of the situation in the region.”

Q: Why was the day of victory against fascism, May 9, chosen for this?
A: It took some time to find the medal and send it to Belgrade.

To all readers Who is Draza Mihailovic:

The exact number of Bosniak, Croat and other civilians murdered under the direct command of Mihailović's Chetniks has never been established. In his book Crimes Against Bosnian Muslims 1941-1945, historian Šemso Tucaković estimated that out of 150,000 Bosniaks who lost their lives in World War II, some 100,000 were murdered by Chetniks. He also listed at least 50,000 Bosnian Muslim names directly known to have been killed by Chetniks. According to World War II historian Vladimir Žerjavić, approximately 29,000 Muslims and 18,000 Croats were killed by Chetniks during World War II.[12] Zerjavic figures have been cited as too conservative and figures of up to 300,000 non-Serbs have been suggested.[13]

Some of the major World War II Chetnik massacres against ethnic Croats and Bosnian Muslims include:[14]

* July 1941, Herzegovina (Bileca, Stolac) - approximately 1,150 civilians killed;
* December 1941/January 1942, eastern Bosnia (Foča, Goražde) - approximately 2,050 civilians killed;
* August 1942, eastern Bosnia and Sandžak (Foča, Bukovica) - approximately 1,000 civilians killed;
* August 1942, eastern Bosnia (Ustikolina, Jahorina) - approximately 2,500 civilians killed;
* October 1942, central Bosnia (Prozor) - approximately 1,250 civilians killed;
* January 1943, Sandžak (Bijelo Polje) - approximately 1,500 civilians killed;
* February 1943, eastern Bosnia and Sandžak (Foča, Čajniče, Pljevlja) - approximately +9,200 civilians killed. The largest single Chetnik massacre of World War II.

Mihailović was captured on March 13, 1946 by agents of the Yugoslav security agency OZNA. He was charged on 47 counts. In the end the court found him guilty on 8 counts, including crimes against humanity

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There are eighty one (81) persons in Croatia who obtained "The Certificate of Honour" and "The Medal of the Righteous" from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem till now, for

saving the Jews in Croatia during the WW2.

Maybe it will be difficult for the reader to hear about a morbid song of Serbian extremists, revealing in full extent the character of the aggression against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It starts like this: "Milosevic, bring us salad, we shall have meat, we'll butcher the Croats". Equally morbid is their flag: it is black, with a skull and cross-bones. All this was shown on TV by CNN and BBC (unfortunately without the English translation) in November 1991, when Serbian troops entered Vukovar, completely destroyed after three months of uninterrupted shelling and bombing. Two hundred and sixty Croats have been transported by the Serbs from the Vukovar hospital (N.B.: in the presence of the international Red Cross representatives) to the nearby location of Ovcara, killed there and dumped in a massive grave, as reported by three survivors.

When the occupation of Vukovar started in August 25th 1991, the Serbian military officials, as well as some experts on the West, predicted that the city will fall in no more than two days. Vukovar had only 1,700 defenders (700 members of the Croatian national guard and 1000 volunteers), against 40-60,000 well equipped Serbian soldiers and paramilitary, supported by the aircraft, heavy artillery and 600 tanks. But the defense of the city lasted for almost three months (86 days), enabling thus the Croatian resistance to consolidate on other battlefields. The name of Vukovar has a special meaning for every Croat.

The Yugoslav army, which had been ranked as the third in Europe according to its military potential (after France and Great Britain; supplied with classical weapons better than the Bundeswehr of the united Germany), soon became the greatest and most aggressive formation. On the other hand, Croatian military resources of Territorial defense were confiscated in a secret operation just before the democratic changes in Croatia in 1990, so that Croatia was left practically without means to defend itself. Moreover, the international community imposed embargo on import of arms to Croatia (for the Serbs the embargo on import of arms had no importance).

According to the latest information (1996), Croatia has

more than 12,000 killed,
35,000 wounded,
180,000 destroyed apartments,
25% of its economy destroyed, and
27 billion US dollars of material damage
in this war. The destiny of 72862 persons is still not known, for many of them since 1991 (1400 are from Vukovar), when the aggression against Croatia started. There is no doubt that those who survived are held in concentration camps and prisons in Serbia.

According to information provided by dr. Andrija Hebrang in 2004, during the Homeland 1991-1995 War in Croatia there were

7138 (seven thousand one hundred and thirty eight) killed nonserbian civilians (in great majority Croatian) in Croatia,
out of them 829 (eight hundred twenty nine) killed nonserbian cvilians in UNPA zones in Croatia (UN zones);
162 (hundred and sixty two) killed Serbian civilians in Croatia. The overall number of killed Serbs in Croatia is estimated to about 260.
The figures concerning the Croats and Muslim Slavs in Bosnia-Herzegovina are even more tragic. The reader can easily imagine the suffering of these people if he/she recalls the humiliation of the entire international community when the UN officers were arrested and maltreated by the Serbs in Bosnia in May 1995.

Stick thatin you're pipe and smoke it!!!!!!!