Sunday,
February 11, 2007
"Foibe"
Massacres raised in Answer to Croatian President Mesic’s
Claims
The
ANNOTICO Reports
This
week Croatian President Stipe Mesic made statements that the crimes after World War II
had been the consequence of fascist crimes.
That
is a LOT difficult to believe,since
The Foibe massacres were mass killings attributed to Yugoslav partisans
during and shortly after WWII against
Italians. This bloodshed was the consequence of an exodus of Italians
forced by the Yugoslavs from
These Mass
Killings of ethnic Italians were committed after the capitulation of
Estimates of the
number of victims range from between 2,000 and 20,000, according to data
gathered by a mixed Slovene-Italian historical commission established in
1993.This estimate does not include those killed in current Croatian territory.Prominent historians estimated the total number of
victims at about 5,000. The killings of 1943 were the beginning of organized
ethnic cleansing, while the episodes of 1945
appear to be both ethnic and political cleansing that drastically reduced the
Italian population of Istria and
The Foibe have been a long-neglected subject in mainstream
political debate, only recently garnering broader attention with the recent
publication of several scholarly books and historical studies. It is thought
that after World War II, politicians of Western European countries wanted to
put mutual uncomfortable "past" deeds behind and
focus on the problems the Cold War presented.
'Italians
are Victims of Slavic Expansionism'
Giorgio
Napolitano, president of the
On occasion of
the marking of the anniversary of the peace accords of 1947, the Italian
President stressed in
-- These
tendencies have taken the shape of ethnic cleansing, especially in the peace
accords of 1947 Napolitano said.
He stressed that
the tragedy of Italians had not been spoken of because of international
conformism.
-- Now that
According
to the Jutarnji list daily, Napolitano thus wished to
respond to Croatian President Stipe Mesics statement that the crimes after World War II
had been the consequence of fascist crimes
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