Medak Pocket Massacre: Croat Ustasha Nazi Savagery ReplayWARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS FOLLOW
Above right, Agim Ceku: Albanian commander of Croatian army forces responsible for the Medak Pocket massacre of 88 Serbian civilians is invited to Washington for an official visit by Rice and Bush in June of 2006.
Above: Agim Ceku in military uniformAgim Ceku, the Albanian mass murderer who was in charge of the Croat forces who perpetrated the slaughter of 88 Serbian civilians in the Medak Pocket [Medacki Dzep] in the Serbian Krajina region in September 1993, was invited for an official visit to Washington by Bush and Rice back in June of 2006. Agim Ceku - along with KLA terrorist nazi leader Hashim Thaci - was invited again for another visit to Washington in July of 2007. Rice's State Department refers to Agim Ceku in the official manner as
"His Excellency" since Washington gave full backing to have Ceku installed as "Prime Minister" of Kosovo.
Today [September 9, 2008] is 15 years since the savage Croat Army attacked Serb populated towns in the lower Velebit region called Medak Pocket (Medacki dzep), which was under the UN protection.
In the villages Divoselo, Pocitelj and Citluk, Croat Army butchered 88 Serbs, including 6 policemen and 36 civilians, among which were also 18 women. 26 of the killed Serb civilians were over 60 years of age.After the massacre, Croats have handed 52 bodies to Serbs. UNPROFOR members, Canadian and French peacekeepers stationed in Croatia at the time, have found another 18 tortured and butchered corpses. In May 2000 another 11 bodies of the Medak Pocket Serbs were found shoved in a sewage pit in the formerly Serbian part of the town of Gospic.
Until now the bodies of 84 Serbs have been found, 8 of which are still unidentified. The remains of another four Croatia Serbs killed at Medak Pocket are still searched for.
According to the Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti, President of the documentation-informative Center Veritas Savo Strbac said that the Medak Pocket assault of the Croat Army, which lasted from 9-17 September 1993, was an introduction to the later tragedies Serbs from Slavonia and Republic of Srpska Krajina in Croatia were exposed to.
G-d Save us from the Plague, Hunger and the Croats (German Saying) http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/19-Sept-2007.html"Monstrosity in the ways crimes against the Serbs were committed at that time, murders which had a ritualistic character, were aimed at degrading a man to the level of an animal, but also to send a message to the compatriots of the killed, showing what awaits them if they stay put in front of the Croat forces", Strbac said at the press conference.
Strbac reminded that Serbs in Medak Pocket were killed in an exceptionally cruel way, citing an example of a woman whose two sons were in the Croat Army, who was impaled alive. Most of the Serb women, victims of the Croat assault on Medak Pocket, were burned alive. One young man who was mentally ill was hung upside-down by the Croat Army and killed as a knife-throwing target.In a statement published by Kurir, Veritas Center chairman reminded that there were no wounded in Medak Pocket -- no one and nothing was allowed to live:
"This very fact and the results of the autopsy of the Serb victims points to the conclusion this was a systematic murder of the imprisoned and wounded. Their heads were cut off and their skulls were crushed, while the women were being thrown into their own burning houses. The most poignant testimony to the Croat savagery are the words by Cedric Thornberry, Assistant UN Secretary General (and Deputy Chief of the UN Protection Force - UNPROFOR - at the time), who said that after searching the region the whole day all he was able to find alive was one chicken", Strbac said.Memorial services for the Serb victims of Medak Pocket assault will be served in Banja Luka and Belgrade, in memory of the victims of the horrific crimes of the regular Croat Army which labeled this action as a "Scorched Earth" project.
French General Jean Cot, United Nations commander in Croatia, wrote with regret that the French and Canadian UN battalions "could not prevent the slaughter of the Serbs by the Croatians, including elderly people and children", and that the Croat Army "didn't leave a cat alive" in these villages.
"I have found no sign of human or animal life in the several villages we passed today. The destruction is total, systematic and deliberate," General Cot informed through the UNPROFOR Press Release, published on September 19, 1993.
A report fully confirmed by the Canadians, who testified that "all livestock had been killed and houses torched".
Canadian peacekeeper Tony Spiess was one of many Canada's soldiers who suffered nightmares after witnessing the devastation left by the savage Croat troops."The Croatian militia had been trying to keep the Canadian troops from uncovering their ethnic cleansing of a Serbian village, Spiess says, confirming accounts recreated in the 2004 book by Carol Off, titled The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada's Secret War.
"When the shooting, bombing and mayhem were finally over at Medak Pocket -- with no Canadian deaths -- one of the things Spiess remembers most was the odour of death, everything from horses to humans.
"The smell will never go away," he said.
"As Spiess and his Canadian comrades walked into the destroyed Serbian village that the Croatians had tried to stop them from seeing, burning corpses were everywhere.
"Spiess perhaps most vividly remembers the bodies of two teenage Serbian girls hanging limp on chairs, their arms tied to the chairs behind their backs.
"They were still smouldering," Spiess said. "It was total f---in' devastation."
"A chill sets in as he speaks.
"The girls had been raped. Then shot. Then set on fire."No Punishment for the Slaughter by the Croat ArmyAccording to Janes Defence Weekly (10 June 1999), Brigadier General Agim Ceku (afterward in charge of the KLA, and then promoted to a politician and a Kosovo-Metohija province "prime minister") also "masterminded the successful HV [Croatian Army] offensive at Medak" in September 1993.
Instead of trying the Croat Army generals who have ordered and led their troops to this massacre, The Hague tribunal [owned by the US & NATO] transferred the monstrous case to the Croat judiciary, where Agim Ceku wasn't even indicted, while general Mirko Norac was convicted to the seven years imprisonment, and (another Albanian) Rahim Ademi was freed of all charges and released.
"Ademi, who at the time was a deputy commander for the Gospic region, was acquitted even though he issued more than 80 orders for the preparation and execution of this assault, while Norac was convicted based on the war crimes committed against the civilian population and the prisoners of war", Strbac said.He stressed that the minimization of the victims was obvious during these court proceedings, explaining the two Croat Army generals were tried for the murder of only 23 civilians and 5 soldiers, taking into consideration exclusively the facts for which there was direct evidence, and not the entire behavioral modus.
"One can clearly see the double standards here when comparing this conviction with the one [the same] Gospic court had issued to five Serbs tried in absence, charged for allegedly holding one Croat policeman imprisoned: three of them were convicted to 8 years, and the other two to 6 years imprisonment," Strbac said.
According to Veritas Center, this process shows that Croat state is still unable to confront the dark side of its recent past. On the other hand, such leniency towards Croat atrocities and monsters is most certainly not going to encourage Serbs expelled from Croatia to start returning in the still entirely deserted villages of Divoselo, Citluk and Pocitelj, 15 years after the slaughter.
"With these shameful verdicts official Zagreb is letting the expelled Serbs know there is no place for them in Croatia", Savo Strbac said.
Recommended: Canadian Testimony about the Medak Pocket Massacre -
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 
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