Yesterday, on the 12th
May, an annual meeting was held, in a meadow, just outside the town
of Bleiburg. It was attended by about 11,000 visitors from Croatia,
to commemorate the murder of many thousands of members of the
“Ustascha.”
Who were the so-called
“Ustascha?” Even a perfunctory look into the history of this
organization reveals this:
“The Ustascha was a
Croatian Revolutionary movement, supported by Nazi Germany and by the
Roman Catholic Church.
It was, in fact, a
fascist, racist, ultra nationalist, terrorist, Nazi supported
organization, who ruled in a German-protected area of Croatia.
Between 1939 and 1945 the
Ustascha had established a number of Concentration and Extermination
camps, the most notorious of which was in/near Jasenovac, an
Extermination Camp in which low number estimated 60,000 victims were
murdered. They were mostly Serbians, Jews, Roma and anybody else who
did not agree with this National Socialist (Nazi) philosophy.
Now, of course, came the
8th of May 1945, the day in which the end of WWII was
documented by the signing of the unconditional surrender of the
German Army.
The Tito-friendly
so-called “Partisans” now moved to get their revenge, killing as
many of the Ustascha as they could.
The Ustascha, men, women
and children fled to Austria where, on the 14th day of May
1945, they reached a field in Loibach, near Bleiburg, where they
encountered the British arm of the Allied victorious liberation
forces, who, in accordance with International Law returned them to
the Jurisdiction of the then Yugoslavia.
This is when the Partisans
took over, and commenced with the killing of the Ustaschas right
there on the “Loibach Field,” continuing during a forced death
march, where those, who, exhausted, could no longer walk, were shot,
their bodies littering the side of the road. Men, Women and Children.
The number of victims
killed during this “death march” is under dispute and varies
widely. It may be believed that tens of thousands were murdered
during this episode.
Many of the Ustaschas fled
to South America, where they were supported by right wing local
Governments and by the Catholic church.
What, finally, have we
left?
A pastoral scene of flower
strewn meadows, a lovely country side of rolling hills reaching for
the mountains and...
….....A History of
Killers killing Killers.
Bertstravels
thought a lot about posting this or not posting it.
It is, after all, ancient History and should probably be buried and forgotten.
But, since this fascist ideology, saturated with the blood of the innocent and the guilty, is still very much in evidence, Bertstravels thinks that it must be told again and again, so that the deeds of criminals in power should never be forgotten, and, it may be hoped, not be repeated.
