1 Oct 2003 01:54:08 EDT
Ethnic cleansing in Dubrovnik
From: SCofSAvasko@aol.com
On 1 October 1991 the biggest ethnic cleansing of a city in modern
Europe began. Of about 10 000 Serbs living in Dubrovnik, 90% were
friven out in a couple days, forever.
Today, twelve years later, none have returned. Illustrious Dubrovnik
families Apolonio, Reljic, Pejovic,Lucic, Elakovic, Zecevic,
Boskovic (descendants of the glorious Rudjer Boskovic), Kovac, Bazdar,
Simic, Krivokuca, Vukasinovic, Segrt, Ciganovic, Markovic, Puljizevic,
Groseta and many others, all expelled in a genocidal war.
Lawyers, professors, medical doctors, philosophers, journalists and
other intellectuals “vacated” their job spots for rabid west
Herzegovinian extremists, the preeminent Croatian Nazis
the
Ustashas.
Today they rule the once multiethnic city, which had been an oasis
of
freedom for centuries.
Serbs and other Dubrovnikers again this year, on the day of the
expulsion, implore all of you who can to relay this letter to European
and world organizations, to make possible our return to our own houses,
now occupied by thieves, and resume life in their native city.
(signed)
Dubrovniker in Exile