Ethnic Discrimination Slows Refugee Return Show More ServicesPrint Eight years after the end of the war in Croatia, ethnic discrimination continues to impede the return of hundreds of thousands of Croatian Serbs displaced by the war, Human Rights Watch said in a new reportreleased today. The 61-page report, “Broken Promises: Impediments to Refugee Return to Croatia,” […]
Tag Archives: Croatia
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Canadians fight way beyond their true number . Lion’s all . thank you for your service and for coming to our side without even being asked . true friends . from a very grsteful Englishman . Full link for this article: Click Here Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article (Blog, Post, Comments […]
Articles, Croatia, Serbia
Former Swedish Prime Minister, Serbian War Criminal – Just Some of People Banned to Enter Croatia
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The decision by Croatian authorities to declare Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin “persona non grata” was not the first decision by the Croatian authorities in recent decades to declare certain foreigners unwanted on the territory of Croatia, reports Jutarnji List on April 23, 2018. Vulin was banned from entering Croatia after a statement that the decision on […]
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In one day in September 1993, in the process of aggressively shoring up the crumbling UN peacekeeping mission in Croatia, Canadian soldiers killed as many as 27 Croat soldiers in a series of firefights. Letting Canadians know of this little-known battle is nominally at the heart of journalist Carol Off’s The Ghosts of Medak Pocket, and […]
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Human Rights Watch, Second Class Citizens: The Serbs of Croatia, 1 March 1999, D1103, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a7df4.html On January 15, 1998, the United Nations transferred authority over Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (hereafter, Eastern Slavonia) to the Croatian government, bringing the last remaining Serb-held territory of Croatia back under Croatian control Despite positive developments in terms of […]
Articles, Croatia, Serbia
I fought at Medak Pocket. And I’ve never really left that dark, bloody place
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Arriving in Zagreb, Croatia, in April of 1993 we stampeded down the stairs from the aircraft to the waiting minibus. It was garishly painted with no seats, just strategically placed poles. We crammed in and within milliseconds the air became almost solid with cigarette smoke. The nine-hour flight from Winnipeg hadn’t been aboard a smoke-free […]
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MEDAK, CROATIA—Canadian veteran Rob Deans is still haunted by the shell-scarred ruins and forgotten landmines of Croatia’s Medak Pocket. It’s been 20 years since he was last here, but not a day goes by when he doesn’t think about this place. “I can picture the trees, the path, the burning garage, everything,” says Deans, who […]
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Dedicated to the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group who served on Operation Harmony Rotation 2 as part of UNPROFOR in Croatia. Full link for this article: Click Here Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article (Blog, Post, Comments & Video) are those of the authors and […]
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Croatian and Muslim armed forces blocked the “Posavski corridor” that connected Bosanska Krajina and Serbia. The corridor cut off Banja Luka from Serbia. Because of this, it was not possible to supply Banja Luka with oxygen by land. Only the air supply remained as an option, but it wasn’t possible either because of a flight ban over Bosnia and Herzegovina, imposed […]
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Created in the aftermath of the First World War following the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Yugoslavia was a multi-ethnic country with several constituent republics (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro) – each one with a distinct identity. Tensions among the various ethnic and religious groups boiled over in 1991 with declarations of […]