Notes for the poems The DEVIL and The ANGEL - Arthur Vaso's Blog

War Criminal

Angel

Notes:

Extractions from Aljazeera by Sara Manisera, with side notes from a few additional sources.

Orthodox priest Vojislav Carkic was in the infamous Chetnik division of the Serbian army during the Bosnian war. "If I could, I would join the war again and fight today against the so-called Ukrainian state," declares Vojislav Carkic. The 79-year-old, who also goes by the nickname Pop Zuco, was a commander of the Chetnik division of the Serbian army from 1992 to 1995. He fought in the Bosnian war, where his battalion was stationed in Grbavica, near Sarajevo.

As an Orthodox archpriest, he didn't only fight - he also baptised other soldiers and presided over their burials.

According to a witness, who asked to remain anonymous, after the war ended, Carkic presided over the burial of the mother and brother of infamous Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic at Niglevick cemetery, in Vlaca, Republika Srpska. The witness says that Mladic attended the funeral despite being a fugitive at the time. When asked about this, Carkic refused to discuss it.

In the 1990s, Serbian ultra-nationalist leaders found in the Chetniks a model for their wars. Recreated by Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party, they served as the group's paramilitary force.

They terrorised the non-Serb populations and promoted the idea of an ethnically cleansed Greater Serbia that would include the whole of Bosnia and most of Croatia.

The followers were fanatically devoted to the Serbian Orthodox Church, which actively promoted their activities.

The war was brutal with atrocities committed on many sides, but there's substantial evidence of Chetnik's perpetrating massacres and mass rape against civilian populations in Croatia and Bosnia.

"These [Chetnik] forces sweep into villages in order to butcher Muslim and Croat civilians ... Nor was the Chetnik terror limited to non-Serbs; on the contrary the Chetniks also terrorised those Serbs who were opposed to the Chetnik programme," the historian says.

As you can see, the sign of an extremists is their willingness to kill anyone who disagress with them, even their own,

Esmuda Mujagic is a Muslim woman who survived the Trnopolje camp, a concentration camp established by Bosnian Serb military authorities and by Chetniks, located near Prijedor in northern Bosnia.

Mujagic, who today runs the association Heart of Peace, an NGO that provides support to women who were confined in concentration camps and were victims of torture during the Bosnian war, describes that terrible moment: "Once we reached the camp, Bosnian men were separated from the women and children and many of them never came back, including my nephews."

Male and female prisoners were held in Trnopolje. Most of the non-Serb women from the area of Prijedor passed through this camp, many having reportedly been raped, according to  United Nations Commission of Expert. A total of 52,811 people from Prijedor municipality were either killed or deported, according to the report.

Carkic responds to these accusations matter-of-factly. Far from being repentant, he says: "Now I'm retired, but I'm still in a good mood to kill people."  That a man filled with such hate and claims a religion is sick. He is a a personification of the devil. That the Serbian people still do not admit to the horrors of their war crimes is disgusting and sickening.

As a side note, the former Yugoslavia has no oil, the conflict there almost caused world war III and even after two world wars, Europe left thousands to die in concentration camps. This is the result of too many silent ones. The USA through what many might say was the use of the carrot and the stick, again brought peace to Europe. I mention no Oil as many left wing, propagandists blame American intervention on their need for oil.

http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleID=1026&reportid=162

http://adis79202.tripod.com/id1.html

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