Talk:Dalmatian Hinterland

Serb exodus

I don't think that the majority migrated after the war, but that they were rather expelled during the war. --PaxEquilibrium 19:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I was primarily referring to the exodus after Operation Storm, although I suppose there is variance during the war because the general definition includes areas far away from the war front lines on both sides. You're talking about the general definition, right? In any case, do you have some exact information about non-Storm-related expulsions in the region? --Joy [shallot] 08:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

No, if you refer to the Serbs.

Also perhaps it's interesting to note that most of the population was Orthodox for...was it 600 years? --PaxEquilibrium 16:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Serbs are so small in numbers in Zagora, that they're almost not worth of mentioning. Zagora is among the purest Croat-inhabited areas in the world.
Second, if you want to mention Knin or Benkovac or Obrovac, these areas aren't Zagora.
Population was Orthodox for 600 years? Go spread your propaganda somewhere else. I told you that "Orthodox" church in Zagora was a redecorated mosque.
Here's my message from Talk:Pagania, from 15 may 2007.
Here's the original text from the chronicle of Franciscan Stipan Vrljić:"Anno Domini 1717. uze naš princip mletački Ioan Corner grad Imocki a đeneralom biše od Dalmacije Alosio Mocinigo koi dođe s voiskom ...I za Mociniga Ge(nera)la dodjoše prokleti arkači iz Carne Gore i staše pod Imockim, a za Turčina ne bieše niedne cigle kuće arkača u svem kadiluku. I tome krivi bieše naši ljudi karstiani jer pođoše bižati u tursku zemlju kako se mir učini, A Imocki se uze za karstiane da onde stoi, koi biaju uskočili z Goranaca i Blata mostarskog. I tako u Imotise naseliše Sizmatici jer je naš narod dobro bi stao mirno pod krilom principa privedroga i milostivoga. Neka se zna koie su župe ovoga manastira Imockoga bile od starine za Turaka i od kada je manastir u prološcu fundan."". Here is also some more data [1]. In fact, in 1717 he speaks about Orthdox Christian families (neither Serbs).
Leave your propagandism and wishie-wishes ("autochtonous Serbs", 600 y. of Orthodox believers in, no more, nor less, but Zagora) for other places. Kubura 14:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

1. No one here mentioned Serbs.

2. There's no propaganda. Vlachs, Serbs and other Orthodoxes massively colonized this area for centuries. But yes, OK. I guess we can't be really sure until the early 16th century about majority. --PaxEquilibrium 18:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

1a. No, just the title of this section is called "Serb exodus".
1b. It was mentioned in the article. Second, you did that. This change of yours [2]. Dear child, those Serbs that lived on rebel Serb-controlled territory have been organizely evacuated. That was planned, organized evacuation. Many of those Serbs were evacuated by force (by rebel Serbs). On the other hand, Croatian medias have been air the following message every hour, 24 hours a day, whole week, during Operation Storm, "Serbs, don't leave!". However, if your memory is weak, I remember when rebelled Serbs self-willingly left rebelled controlled areas during Operation Maslenica. On rebel Serb local radio-stations (Gračac, Korenica, Knin), this message was sent: "Citizens of Obrovac, there's no need to leave the city. Građani Obrovca, nema razloga da napuštate grad."
2. Vlachs were here mentioned from the earliest times.
Seconde, there were communities of Catholic Vlachs and Orthodox Vlachs.
However, the Orthodox believers here became important community after Ottoman advance, when Orthodox Vlachs came here. Kubura 13:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

If you have bad memorizing, here's the message I've posted you, on 25 June 2006... Interesting, some user had an "car accident" then...
I'll repeat it to you here.
As I've promised, here are some sources. But I can't find where have I seen Mile Paspalj's document (relativly unknown person to mention it just like that, I haven't thought that up - nisam ga izmislio, relativno je "nepoznato" ime za ga tek tako reć).

Ovako, ima dokumenata Civilne zaštite pobunjenih Srba koji govore o već predviđenom evakuiranju stanovništva (to ću potlen iskopati), ali za prvu ruku, evo ti nekoliko izvora (i to srpskih) koji govore o planskom evakuiranju stanovništva/there are some documents of rebel Serbs' Civile Protection (Civilna Zaštita), that speak about an already prepared and predicted evacuation of population (I'll dig that out later), but, as a first step, here are some sources (Serb sources!) that speak about planned evacuation of population of rebel areas:

This order is given from the rebel Serb top authority on the day of Operation Storm. 5. August 1995.

• RSK, Vrhovni savjet odbrane, Knin, 4. avgust 1995., 16.45 časova, Broj 2-3113-1/95. Faksimil ovog dokumenta objavljen je u/The faximile of this document was published in: Rade Bulat "Srbi nepoželjni u Hrvatskoj", Naš glas (Zagreb), br. 8.-9., septembar 1995., p. 90.-96. (faksimil je objavljen na stranici 93./the faximile is on the page 93.).

Vrhovni savjet odbrane RSK (The Supreme Council of Defense of Republic of Serb Krajina) brought a decision 4. August 1995 in 16.45. This decision was signed by Milan Martić and later verified in Glavni štab SVK (Headquarters of Republic of Serb Krajina Army) in 17.20.

I'll type you the original text later.

These orders are given two days before the Operation Storm, 02. August 1995.

• RSK, Republički štab Civilne zaštite, Broj: Pov. 01-82/95., Knin, 02.08.1995., HDA, Dokumentacija RSK, kut. 265
  

This is the document of Republic headquarters of Civil Protection of RSK. In this document it was ordered to all subordinated headquaters of RSK to immediately give all reports about preparations for the evacuation, sheltering and taking care of evacuated civilians (evakuacija, sklanjanje i zbrinjavanje) (the deadline for the report was 3. August 1995 in 19 h).

• RSK, Republički štab Civilne zaštite, Broj: Pov. 01-83/95., Knin, 02.08.1995., Pripreme za evakuaciju materijalnih, kulturnih i drugih dobara (The preparations for the evacuation of material, cultural and other goods), HDA, Dokumentacija RSK, kut. 265
  

This was the next order from the Republican HQ of Civil Protection. It was referred to all Municipal Headquaters of Civil Protection. In that document was ordered to all subordinated HQ's to implement the preparation of evacuation of all material and all mobile cultural goods, archives, evidentions and materials that are highly confidential/top secret, money, lists of valuable stuff (?)("vrednosni popisi") and referring documentations.

• Drago Kovačević, "Kavez - Krajina u dogovorenom ratu" , Beograd 2003. , p. 93.-94.
  

Note: Drago Kovačević was during the existence of so-called RSK the minister of informing and the mayor of Knin (the capitol of self-proclaimed state)

• Milisav Sekulić, "Knin je pao u Beogradu" , Bad Vilbel 2001., p. 171.-246., p. 179.
  

Note: Milisav Sekulić was a high military officer of "Srpska vojska Krajine" (Republic of Serb Krajina Army).

• Marko Vrcelj, "Rat za Srpsku Krajinu 1991-95" , Beograd 2002., p. 212.-222.
  

Note: Marko Vrcelj was a military officer of JNA (later named: Vojska Jugoslavije - Army of FR Yugoslavia). During the wartime 1991-95, he was on the various military functions in "Srpska vojska Krajine" (Republic of Serb Krajina Army).

I've kept my word. Kubura 13:38, 25 June 2006 (UTC) Read it again, if you didn't last time. Kubura 14:14, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

1a. But that has nothing to do with that which you're talking about - you're referring to the historical bit when I referred to the Orthodoxes.

1b. I am well-aware of that theory present - and even POVly pushed in Croatia nowadays. It is to many people's personal belief (like that 'Slobodna Dalmacija' journalist) as well as that of the Democratic Institute of Croatia's that that is just an example of a way to "push off guilt", just like the Serbians are frequently throwing the plan between Holbrooke and Karadzic, in and effort to put the guild of Radovan's hiding to the United States of America (I'm not here discussing the validity of this information). In short - denial, negationism based on nationalism. To tell you the truth I am aware that evacuation was planned. We all can today with much belief say that the war in Krajina was an "arranged war" between Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosevic. I wouldn't be surprised if the shocking rumors of transcripts of Milosevic and Tudjman come true (those how they negotiated how many killed Krajina Serbs could Milosevic tolerate before reacting). Facts that subsequently follow correspond the possibility of such compromises - some of them being:

A) The Federal Republic of Serbia abandoned RSK in every imaginable way. The Serbian Media ignored and never showed any Operation or change in the war - reporting it for the first time in 1998 on the war in Croatia, and even in general presenting the Serbs west from Drina as bad fighters and "evil". The only act was a little different in Montenegro, when Milo Đukanović said for the national television that Croatia conducted genocide against the Serbs, and that he finds Milosevic's actions highly suspicious

B) several units of RSK were actually named evacuation units (so yes, you're right in this bit)

C) Slobodan Milosevic assured Tudjman that plan Z-4 will fail and did everything in his power to make it fail - so that a martial operation gets conducted

D) most refugees that came to Serbia were shipped to Kosovo, mostly Albanian-populated

However, today we know that Tudjman's propaganda was heavily fierce, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia clearly states that. We have that video from Brijuni, and many, many more transcripts, which are a direct proof that Franjo Tudjman and his cabinet's Croatian state core falsely instigated propaganda on a mass-organized footage. It is also starting to get clearer that the very foundations of Operation Storm undoubtedly, and perhaps even Operation Flash, were ethnic cleansing, before reassertion of territorial integrity. Let me refresh your memory what Tudjman said:

To solve, in what way to solve? That is the subject of today's discussion. To give such strikes that the Serbs practically disappear, that that which we can't capture immediately capitulates in several days.

Ergo, our main task isn't Bihać, but striking in several directions so hard that the Serb forces cannot recover, but be forced to capitulate..

Therefore we have to designate some forces that will act straight for Knin and especially... Gentlemen, remember how many Croatian towns and places were devastated, and the case is still not with Knin today...

Then Ante Gotovina says: Mr President, in this moment we are completely with our technique controlling Knin. It's not that.. if the command is to strike at Knin, we'll tare it down in several hours completely.

Tudjman continues: With that which I said, and the following here stated, that an exit needs to be given to them, so that they can... because it is important for those civilians to leave, and then the army will follow when the columns start, you know how it goes psychologically on one another

One brief like this, so: general crackdown, victory of the Croatian Army with the support of the world etc. "Serbs you're retreating across the other side" etc "And we're calling you not to retreat, we're guaranteeing you... So in that way pave them a pathway, and guarantee them so-called civil rights etc (note: after this last bit, Franjo Tudjman initiates a sarcastic laughter).

I am completely aware of the alleged calls by then's Croatian government for "peace" and calling them "not to flee", but I think it's obvious that that was a pretty much organized - and when I say this I mean neutral, and not observing from one edge of view - propaganda.

To add a little flavor (duh, bizarre in this case) to the top, we all need to be glad that the Serbs retreated - evidently to save their own lives (perhaps this was the reason why the RSK authorities planned evacuation)? To quote one Croatian Wikipedian (you know him, it's User:Rjecina) "I'm glad they left, or the number of dead could've been 10,000" - There is a very likely possibility that it could've been another Srebrenica.

You are well aware that the Croatian forces constantly disobeyed the United Nations' implemented ceasefires and made hit-and-run attacks (from 1992 to 1994)? Remember the process at the 1993 Operation Medak pocket. When the Defender asked the witness why didn't he surrender when he was asked by the Croatian forces, he replied that that would be same as accepting death - all that didn't flee were slaughtered. Remember the 1991 Gospic massacre, for which the deliberate order was "ethnically cleanse". If you seriously think that staying was an option - it is obviously that all those who stayed were either unable to flee, mentally ill or perhaps even did believe (the Serb People's Party e.g.) the propagated idea, but probably mostly for their own benefit. If you recall immediately after Operation Storm in 1995 civil rights for ethnic minorities in Croatia reached the bottom, and weren't fully rehabilitated before late 1998, with countless "incidents" (e.g. in the village of Varivode). Hypothetically speaking, if 450,000 Serbs remained in Croatia, we can't even begin to imagine what horrors could've occurred - and that would've been good for no side in the conflict (for Croatia, which would be treated much like Republika Srpska and for the Serbs, well it's obvious). To quote ICTY what happened to those who remained: These crimes continued on a large scale for at least three months after the area had been secured by the Croatian authorities, and included the unlawful killing of Krajina Serbs who did not flee; the burning and destruction of Serb villages and property including homes, outbuildings, barns and livestock, and the looting of property.. Sincerely, --PaxEquilibrium 18:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

P.S. You should know that most of the people you mentioned there also claim that Croatia had organized to remove them, and quite a bit believe that Sloba & Franz led an arranged war (like Milisav Sekulic and Drago Kovacevic), as previously mentioned. --PaxEquilibrium 18:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

P.P.S ICTY Indictment of Ante Gotovina:

Between 4 August 1995 and 15 November 1995, those who remained in, or returned to, their homes in the weeks after the offensive were ultimately forced to flee the area as a result of continued killing, arson, looting, harassment, terror and threats of physical harm to person and property committed by Croatian forces. The cumulative effect of these unlawful acts was a large-scale deportation and/or displacement of an estimated 150,000 - 200,000 Krajina Serbs to Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia.

P.P.P.S I also forgot this: the Croatian forces chased the refugees and bombarded their columns; hundreds of people died. Not very nice thing to do trying to kill the people you're convincing to stay. A similar thing occurred in Operation Flash. I personally know a man who was killed by a shell (details can even be read in some books Kubura provided). The only reasonable explanation for this is to speed up the exile. --PaxEquilibrium 19:23, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

2. Orthodox Vlachs are for the first time in great numbers mentioned during the Tartar invasions of the Balkans in the 13th century. It's true that practically the explicit population of the hinterland became Orthodox Serb after the Ottoman conquest, but Orthodoxes were in great numbers before as well in this particular case. --PaxEquilibrium 18:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Bombings, killings, attacks--what else do you expect from an operation? Especially against an enemy that has been occupying the country's land for 4 years. If you look into the history of operations flash and storm, you will see they were long planned. You know why they were not executed earlier? Partly, because the international community objected, saying that it would widen the war, bring Serbia proper into the mix, and cause a large flow of refugees. No one expected the Krajina Serbs to stay. Not the Croatian government, not the international community, not even the Krajina Serbs themselves. They themselves said they would rather die/leave than live in a free Croatian state. That is why RSK was created in the first place. Now, the main focus and point of operation storm was #1) to return Croatian territory under Croatian control. Not to expell the Serbs--I know many Serbs think everything revolves around them, but no one can say with a straight face that Croatians were more eager for the Serbs to leave than to regain their territory back. The reason why August 5 is a national holiday is because Croatian territory was finally liberated--after 4 long difficult years. None of them have any idea the hardships the country went through during those years, wondering whether Croatia would ever fully be free, wondering if their loved ones were going to be killed in battle, etc. You cannot say that operation storm itself was ethnic cleansing--because the goal was to bring the territory under Croatian control and the Krajina Serbs left on their own, ordered by their leaders and encouraged by their neighbors and soldiers, not to mention their fear of the Croatian soldiers advancing. And don't expect anyone in Croatia (civilians and politicians) to be sad at the Serbs leaving. It was good riddance to many of them. No one ever made a secret about it. None of this should be surprising to anyone. And to try to add that in the Zagora article--not cool. Let's not make an edit war over a small detail as that. Just state what needs to be said about the REGION. --Jesuislafete 00:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

You are completely missing the subject - that the majority of the population were Serbs, and then from 1995 to the present no longer, primarily because of the war. That's the main issue. That which you're saying is, essentially, unrelated.

But of course. No one expected the Bosnian Muslims will stay in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republic of Srbska) either. However - generalizing on 300,000 people that they all shared the identical opinion seems quote improper.

I am completely aware the official claim is that Operation Storm's primary goal was to reclaim territory, under internationally recognized borders of the Republic of Croatia. But do not present that otherwise is just the opinion of Serbs - it is the opinion of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The term used is "joint criminal enterprise", i.e. an organized plan to expel the Serbs. The National Democratic Institute of Croatia members are mostly Croats - just like the Free Dalmatia reported. As I've said before, it puts the expulsion of Serbs onto the first seat of Operation Storm's goals, as its primary reason. One of the possible proofs that such a thing may even be truthful is the video of Franjo Tudjman and the Croatian HDZ state core on Briuni about openly planning the expulsion of Serbs and falsely guaranteed civil rights. Tudjman's subsequent propaganda further extents the footprint of the act. Other statements also allude to this possibility - Franjo Tudjman's subsequent statement in taken Knin that he expressed thanks that there will be only 3%-4%. Another good point is the statement in 1998 by Tudjman that the war could've been avoided, but that all goals wouldn't've been achieved - implying that he wouldn't've expelled the Serbs if he tried to avoid the war.

The term "liberated", unused by anyone outside of Croatia, as well as the 4 August bizarre celebration (even in Churches) which e.g. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France explained as one of the most tragic happenings of modern-day Europe, is a result of ultra-nationalism, extreme patriotism and heritage of Franjo Tudjman's policies. The terrifying truth that that very term is still today, years after, being propagated in Croatia, doesn't shock me however - HDZ reigns there today (though not for soon - SDP is finally going to kick them back to where they should be, together with SDS and SPS in RS and Serbia). There is no such thing as collective guilt - nor with Croatia or the Croatian people - so I don't quite understand this nationalistic feeling (similarly present in the Republika Srpska) of "defense", identifying with the Croatian Democratic Union and its (formerly) genocidal policies. The same problem was present some time ago in Serbia.

About the last few sentences I can't actually believe what you actually said. Supporter of that kind of policy or not, I strongly advise you to reconsider editing Wikipedia, because that kind of thing is only damaging to this community. I'd also like to point out that IMHO you're also wrong - remember the constant writings "Expel the Herzegovinians, return us the Serbs!". I will never believe your words supportive of Serbian ultranationalists' claims (like Serb Radical Party's) that Croatia is AFAIK some sort of a Neo-Nazi creation, much worse in every ideological way than Serbia. Also please reread my first paragraph. --PaxEquilibrium 12:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

1. 1) the holiday is August 5, the day of the liberation of Knin. Not August 4. #2) pick out whatever statements you want, whether it's Tudjman's Brioni transcript or something else, you will always find a contradiction or something different said at another time. Which is the real truth? Don't respond--I don't care enough to argue. #3) the truth hurts. I don't understand what you are harping about my "last few sentences." I'm sure your opinions of the general Croatian population will have you agreeing with me on that point, that no one cared that the Serbs left. Why is that so surprising or not understandable? Notice how I said the general Croatian population--I never said my opinion on the subject. #4) Your tactics will not work. I know how people use words to manipulate the situation at hand--making others seem indecent. Not going to work. Cheers. --Jesuislafete 01:51, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

PaxEquilibrium has used my words so it is time that I say something. Dear Pax I hope that you know something about Bleiburg massacre ? With this massacre I want to say that in the end of war there are bills to pay. Serb forces has during 1991 - 1995 commited many crimes without clear reasons (nobody has attacked Serbs but they have started war). Similar to that Ustaše and Četnici has made crimes against civilian population without reason in period 1941 - 45. Penalty for that crimes has been Bleiburg massacre which is crime and nothing else. Similar to that penalty for Serb forces crimes in Croatia has been 1 500 killed person. Both killings in 1945 and in 1995 have been revenge and nothing else. If more Serbs has stayed I am afraid that Croats revenge in small villages can be greater because of that I am happy that they have left. Because we speak about 1995 I will for the end ask you 1 question. Tell me for example what will person (who is now soldier) do if he has returned in the end of war to his home village where his village "friends" (before war) has killed or let to be killed his cousins because they have been of wrong nationality ? If this person is good christian man he will not do anything. If he is bad he will do bad thing !! I hope that you understand my point about revenge !?

For me only right penalty for every coward soldier who has killed unarmed civilian from close distance (shelling is another thing) is death penalty --Rjecina 15:14, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Everything I stand for - morally and ethically - is contrary to that, and low considerations of primitivism I'm afraid I cannot understand. Not that I'm not trying though... --PaxEquilibrium 17:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I have wanted to say that crimes of croatian soldiers during or better to say after operation storm have been revenge for serb crimes during 1991 - 1995. I do not say that this is OK but this is reality. --Rjecina 17:25, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Well I don't support that thesis. Don't you know that Serbs and Croats constantly invent, so that we go to Adam and Eve to the infamous "who stroke first". It just keeps turning round and around. It's revisionism. No, they weren't revenge - but for some (only several) twisted minds they probably were, yeah. But this has nothing to do with the article. --PaxEquilibrium 17:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

For me is always funny to read Serbian propaganda. Only problem is that people from Serbia believe in that. I will give example of how you have used double standards in this article discussion. For arguments you first time you use words of Franjo Tuđman, another time ICTY Indictment (Gotovina) and third time you are refusing finding of the court Gospic massacre (less of 50 % of killed has been Serbs. 24 out of 50). Please make decision what arguments will you use so that I can think serious about that. In my thinking must honest arguments are court finding I hope that you agree with that ? All in all I have come today to write about other thing. In my thinking we all must agree about timeline with are confirmed with facts which will not be somebody speach but real actions around Operation Storm.

Because I find that sentence quite strange - and it's from a local court, not ICTY. Those are bound to be POV - just like over in Serbia the trials for Ovcara, they have become quite a farce (and yet they pride that they have liberated themselves in 2000 from the 1990s, unlike Croatia). Those are not simple speeches - but planned drafted conferences for this so-called "joint criminal enterprise" (according to the Serbs, another name for genocide). --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• refusal of Krajina to accept peace agreement (Z-4 plan). Serbian Krajina is province of Croatia with president, total monetary independence and free trade area status. They have wanted to accept plan only in last moment with knowledge that Operation Storm will start in 1 or 2 days. Republic of Serbian Krajina Government-in-exile has accepted plan Z-4 in 2005. My comment: Kasno Marko na Kosovo stiže.

Like I said, refusal was forced upon from Belgrade - and Croatia obviously never planned to accept it. Read my words about Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman - he assured that the plan would fail. Besides, it was not looked brightly upon many Serbs (the bit referring to territories outside Serbian Krajina itself). Would Croatia ever really accept that? --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• Serbian Krajina has given orders to population for leaving Croatian territory.

Just like I said. Several units were known as "evacuation units". --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Short version is "Krajina" has refused peace agreement and order evacuation of population. Where is here guilt of Croatia ??

There is no such thing as collective state guilt. --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

In war operations and latter "actions" it has been killed between 1377 and 1938 persons. For war operations where it has been used 215 000 soldiers this is in reality low number. I know that users from Serbia will not agree with that but ...When we speak about this number of victims we must remember that only in Foča massacres on teritory of Bosnia Serbian forces has killed 2074 persons. I am saying that only to show how this victim number is low.

The problem is you're comparing it to the undeniably more devastating Bosnian war - and that's just confirmed dead. Organizations claim over 3,500 missing totally. You cannot say it's a low number - one killed civilian isn't a low number. Not to mention the displacement of practically three hundred thousand people. --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

For the end I must say that after looking Bosnia and Herzegovina today I am happy that Croatia war of Independence has finished this way. Bosnia is living in limbo because war has finished but peace has not started. People are living bad (economy) without hope in better tomorow. Without this outcome of war (in Croatia) life there will be not difference today between Croatia and Bosnia. Simple speaking war need to end so that people can live normal life. Today in Croatia is living 200 000 Serbs and they are having better life because war is ended !

Sources range between 180,000-270,000 for Serbs in Croatia currently. You also forget that for many of them the war is not over - discrimination ended slightly before Tudjman's death in 1998, but growing intolerance and incidents returned with the return of HDZ (which will hopefully, now never ever return). It should not be portrayed as if the end of the war was positive for Serbs in most cases. --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

If somebody want to say how speaches and thinking of Franjo Tuđman are very important like good historians I will find many great people which has spoken from time to time wrong things--Rjecina 3:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Those are not speeches, - the 1944 conference of the National-Socialist Party that drafted a plan on the systematic destruction of Jews in Europe is oh-so-much significant in a similar manner. --PaxEquilibrium 17:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• Maybe I making mistakes we agree on this facts:

• That Serb exodus has been ordered by Serbian Krajina goverment.
• Without Operation Storm situation in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina today will be very similar.

• Maybe I making mistakes but we in part agree with this:
• There has been agreement about reintegration of Krajina in Croatia. In my thinking this agreement has been between Belgrade, Washington and Zagreb. Serbian part of agreement has been promise that they will not declared war against Croatia when Croatia attack Krajina. Part of agreement has been that Croatian forces will not "liberate" Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina. When it has been clear that this city will fall USA has ordered that Croatia forces stop or they will open fire against them.

Hm? --PaxEquilibrium 16:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Link about Croatia-USA part of agreement[3] . Links is not best but I will not loose time looking for better. This is very good known fact in Croatia. --Rjecina 17:41, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• We do not agree who is responsabile for Serb exodus from Krajina region.
• For me it is leadership of Serbian Krajina which has refused peace agreement. Like evidence for that I will give situation in Baranja today.
  • we agree on that - and part of RSK leadership, yeah;
• We must accept fact that Krajina region has always been poor (in Austrian and Yugoslav period) and that young people has been leaving this region looking for better life. Today when young people which has left Krajina region during exodus are having jobs in Belgrade (or other towns) they are not thinking to come back home in this croatian poorest region (this has always been poorest region).
  • Incorrect and quite bizarre interpretation. What are you trying to say, IMHO? --PaxEquilibrium 16:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
• We do not agree about using politicans speaches:
  • Neither do I - but just like I said, the National-Socialist Party Conference of 1944 was an important and crucial event in the Nuremberg trials. In the same way, the Briuni planing & organizing about Serb expulsion is just as so critic for the ICTY for the cases of Gotovina, Cermak and Markac. --PaxEquilibrium 16:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
• If we use this in articles majority of today Serbian political leaders will be supporters of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Bosnia and Croatia !!

--Rjecina 17:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• • Outrageous claim, if not backed by true statements. The only political leader you'd quite is Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party, currently in Hague. Please back it up if you want it to have basis (why didn't you do it in the first place)? --PaxEquilibrium 16:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Please stop serbian fantasy

In article it is writen that towns of Zagora are: Drniš, Sinj, Vrgorac , Trilj and Imotski. From this 5 cities only Drniš has been in serbian hands and croatian population has escaped in 1991. My point is that from 5 towns of region only 1 has been "victim" of operation storm and in that town 4 years before it has ethnic cleansing. I simple do not understand what this user want to say with edits about expulsion in 1995. Even "honest" web site like rastko.org.yu is showing that majority of population of all cities (Drniš, Sinj, Vrgorac , Trilj and Imotski) writen in article is Croat before Yugoslav wars. --Rjecina 20:00, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Are you talking about me? Huh (quite a POV heading)?

Serbs formed majority in the Dalmatian hinterland. It was retook in 1995 and most Serbs fled/were expelled. It's simple as that. If you have problem with information, rephrase it - don't delete it, this way it seems as you have bad faith intentions. --PaxEquilibrium 20:47, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I am really tired of this stuff. Look map which has been created by Internet Library of Serb Culture (Project Rastko).

Even on this map is clear that all cities (Drniš, Sinj, Vrgorac , Trilj and Imotski) of this article are cities with Croats majority. I can understand that you not believe in Croat sources but Serbian ??? --Rjecina 21:29, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

No, no - it's just I misunderstood what you wanted to say. You do know that there is controversy over what precisely is Zagora? --PaxEquilibrium 21:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I will again say that in article is clear writen which are cities of Dalmatian Zagora. All that cities are having Croats majority (and it has been Croat majority in 1991) so it is not possible to write that Serbs has been fled or were expelled. I have seen that you have added Knin so that it is possible to write about Serbs. Only problem is that in official croatian documents Knin is not in Dalmatian Zagora but in North Dalmatia region. You can read that on this site [4] . If you do not know what are in Croatia Narodne novine please read this link [5] . All in all problem solved because I really do not know what other reason you can find to support writing about ethnic cleansing in Dalmatian Zagora. --Rjecina 22:24, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Well like I said, it's not quite clear to what it refers. Especially if we apply real gegraphic and hist. interpretation. Serbs mostly call the Knin region and I've heard it used in Croatia PaxEquilibrium 23:42, 17 October 2007 (UTC)