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Debunking Fred Harhoff’s Outrageous Email
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Reblogged from Misetic Law By Luka Misetic Much has been made in the past week about the incredibly naive email sent by ICTY Judge Fred Harhoff to 56 of his “closest friends.” According to the New York Times, on 6 June 2013, Judge H...
Croatia – Communist Crimes: Tito Directed Political Murders Abroad
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Hina news as shared by Croatian news portal dalje.com Germany to ask Croatia to arrest ex-Yugoslav agent on 1 July On 1 July, when it enters the European Union, Croatia can expect a warrant from Germany for the arrest of a former Yugoslav intelligenc...
Vuk Jeremic’s Paltry UNGA Presidential Mandate Facing Exit Door
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“The United Nations General Assembly Friday June 14 elected by acclamation Ambassador John W. Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda as President of its upcoming 68th session. Taking the floor immediately after his election, Mr. Ashe, who is Antigua and B...
Prostitution Of Justice A-la-Judge-Frederik-Harhoff Style
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Well, it’s been a most interesting (for want of a stronger word) week around interpretations of ICTY judgments that acquitted of war crimes some senior Croat and Serb military leaders, particularly in the past 18 months. Personal, but damming t...
Croat To Be Appointed As EU Commissioner For Consumer Protection
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Croatia is set to enter the European Union as 28th member state on 1 July. Practically just days ahead of that date, the EU has been busy interviewing for a new member in its executive machinery. Croatia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of...
If ICTY Majority Judges Sat At Nuremberg, Most Nazi Leaders Would Be Free
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It is said that the ICTY will close shop in 2014. There are still cases pending completion both in Trial and Appeal Chambers. Judging from the length of time previous cases had taken to completion it’s obvious that one year is nowhere near enou...
Is This A Joint Criminal Enterprise and Muslim Aggression Against Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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We have seen it over and over again: ICTY Prosecution is more than capable of building a case on shaky grounds for the so-called joint criminal enterprise against a group of people from one ethnic group (as this blog is about Croatia and Croats I&rsq...
The Ghost of Goebbels at The Hague
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Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany (1933 – 1945) fierily worked under the motto: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”. Goebbels wasn&rsq...
On the Last Day of Autumn
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Reblogged from Eyes of the Mind: Anyone who has read my articles on the ICTY will have concluded that I do not have a high opinion of the tribunal and that I consider it (as a whole) either inept or corrupt or a combination of the two. The rece...
CROATIA: Happy 30th May (1990) – the Day Democracy Turned Forward
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Dr. Franjo Tudjman Inaugural assembly of the Croatian Parliament speech Zagreb, May 30th, 1990 Honorable representatives, esteemed guests and all who are present at this historical assembly of the Croatian Parliament! First of all, on behalf of the P...
The Latest ICTY Verdict and Why You Should Care
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Reblogged from Eyes of the Mind: Yesterday, the ICTY convicted six Bosnian Croats of war crimes. Some may celebrate, thinking that at last some semblance of justice has been done, but they would be wrong to do so. The only ones who have c...
ICTY Trial Chamber Convicts 6 Croats of Herceg-Bosna – Verdict of Joint Criminal Enterprise Farcical To The Hilt
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Putting the issue of war crimes that may have been committed by individual persons aside, it is absolutely unacceptable and unjust that the ICTY Trial Chamber has today convicted six Bosnian Croat political and military leaders of joint criminal ente...
Praying for Croats of Herceg-Bosna Awaiting ICTY Judgment
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Portal dalje.com has passed on Croatian news agency HINA reporting: “The Croatian World Congress (HSK) has called on Croats worldwide to unite in a prayer “for justice” for six former heads of the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna...
Croatia: Marking Tito’s Birthday – “Tito thieved, but he gave some of the plunder to the people …”!
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Don’t think for a moment that, after reading the title of this article, you could compare Josip Broz Tito (lifelong president of former communist Yugoslavia) to Robin Hood. Robin Hood and his men, from English folklore of 19th century, are know...
Croatia: A Conversation with President Ivo Josipovic
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Reblogged from Croatia Business Report: By CBR Editor Brian Gallagher The President of Croatia, Ivo Josipovic is in the UK for a three day visit. He has met with the Queen, David Cameron (pictured above) and the Minister for Europe David Liding...
Croatia: 21 Years a Member State of the United Nations
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Today, 22 May 1992, dr Franjo Tudjman delivered his speech at the United Nations, ushering Croatia into the world of free, sovereign, independent and democratic states. Here is the speech he delivered in New York on that day, which I have translated...
Croatian Constitutional Court Abolishes Health (Sex) Education Curriculum
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As I have written in my previous posts (see links at end of this article) the sex education curriculum imposed in Croatia early this year saw a nation bitterly divided on issues covered in the curriculum; it saw the Croatian TV journalist Karolina Vi...
Croatia: Speakeasy Lingers At Local Government Elections
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According to the Croatian Electoral Office 46.96% of eligible voters in Croatia turned up to vote at the Local government elections Sunday 19 May. One may well conclude that, although not as high as the 54.32% turnout at December 2011 parliamentary e...
Let’s Create the Europe of Good
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Dr. Slobodan Lang headed the list of candidates for the Joint Movement of Good that ran for the European Union Parliament elections in Croatia last month. Although the group of candidates did not succeed in achieving seats in the EU Parliament the un...
Croatia: Glorification of Communist Crimes as anti-Fascist Achievement
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Even if, after thoroughly studying the victims of the Holocaust (some 11 million, 6 million of which were Jews) and the victims of WWII and post-WWII communist crimes (some 100 million), one concludes that the Nazis and their collaborators were worse...
