Does this say that the RCC murdered the non-RCC?
Mile Budak (1889 - 1945) was a Croatian politician and writer, best known as one of the chief ideologists of the Croatian nationalist Ustaše movement, which ruled the Independent State of Croatia, or NDH, from 1941-45 and waged a genocidal campaign against its Serb, Roma and Jewish minorities. He created the Croatian national plan to get rid of Orthodox Serbs by killing one third, expelling one third and assimilating the rest.[1]
When the Independent State of Croatia was formed, Mile Budak became minister of education, culture and religion. As such he publicly stated that forcible conversion, expulsion and extermination of the ethnic Serb minority was the official national policy. For instance in a widely documented speech at Gospić on 22 July 1941 he declared: "For the rest - Serbs, Jews and Gypsies - we have three million bullets. We shall kill one third of all Serbs. We shall deport another third, and the rest will be forcibly converted to Roman catholicism." {Ustaše: Croatian Separatism and European Politics, 1929-1945, by Srdja Trifkovic, London 1998 (p141); also Magnum Crimen (in Croatian language only), by Viktor Novak, Zagreb 1948 (p605) and elsewhere. Stella Alexander attributes this exposition of Ustaše policy to Budak in Triple Myth (Columbia University Press 1987) and notes that he spoke in similar terms on several other occasions.}
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CroatiaCroatia is inhabited mostly by Croats (89.9 per cent of the population). There are around twenty minority groups. Serbs are the largest minority, comprising 4.5 per cent of the total population. The predominant religion is Catholicism (87.8 per cent), with some Orthodox (4.4 per cent) and Sunni Muslim (1.3 per cent) minorities. The official and common language, Croatian, is a South Slavic language, using the Latin alphabet. According to the 2001 census, 96.1 per cent of the population speak Croatian as their first language.[5]
The population of Croatia has been stagnating over the last decade. During the 1991-1995 war, large sections of the population were displaced and emigration increased. In 1991 during an ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by rebel-Serb forces and the JNA under control of the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic[6][7] 80,000 Croats were expelled from their homes by force. 11,834 Croats were killed and 1348 are still missing.[8][9] Even moderate Serbs were killed by Serb forces.[10] Many Croats have returned but a large portion fled to western Europe and stayed there. A large number of Croats (around 118,000) expelled from Serb-held parts of Bosnia, mostly Bosanska Posavina in 1992 continue to live in Croatia unable to return to their homes.[11] Some 200,000[12][13] Serbs fled from Croatia at the end of the war. Hundreds of civilians were killed during Operation Storm, according to the BBC.[14] Only a fraction of Serbs of Croatia have returned to their homeland since 1995, according to the Human Rights Watch.[15] The natural growth rate of the population is currently negative[5] with the demographic transition completed half a century ago.[citation needed] Average life expectancy is 75.1 years,[5] and the literacy rate is 98.1 per cent.[5]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerbsReligion
Main article: Serbian Orthodox Church
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/wiki/Image:Decani.jpg/wiki/Image:Decani.jpgFresco from Visoki Dečani, UNESCO, Kosovo, 1200s
Orthodox Christianity has played a significant role in formation of the Serbian identity. Conversion of south Slavs from paganism to Christianity took place before the Great Schism, the split between the Orthodox East and the Roman Catholic West. After the Schism, those who lived under the Orthodox sphere of influence became Orthodox and those who lived under the Catholic sphere of influence became Catholic. Later, with the arrival of the Ottoman Empire, many Slavs converted to Islam. Some ethnologists consider that the distinct Serb, Croatian and Bosniak identities are drawn from religion rather than ethnicity
Languages Serbian Religion Serbian Orthodox Christian Related ethnic groups
Other Slavic peoples; South Slavs; especially Montenegrins
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Serbs are SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN………(their religion)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CroatiaWorld War II
Main article: Independent State of Croatia
The Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 allowed the Croatian radical right Ustaše to come into power, forming the "Independent State of Croatia", led by Ante Pavelić, who assumed the role of Poglavnik Nezavisne Drzave Hrvatske (i.e. Leader of the Independent State of Croatia). Following the pattern of other fascist regimes in Europe, the Ustashi enacted racial laws, formed eight concentration camps targeting minority Serbs, Romas and Jewish populations. The biggest concentration camp was Jasenovac in Croatia. The NDH had a program, formulated by Mile Budak, to purge Croatia of Serbs, by “killing one third, expelling the other third and assimilating the remaining third”. The first part of this program began during WWII with a planned genocide in Jasenovac and other locations in the NDH[6] The main targets for persecution, however, were the Serbs. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs were killed.
The all-Yugoslav communist anti-fascist partisan movement emerged in Croatia early in 1941, under the command of Croat Josip Broz Tito, spreading quickly into the other parts of Yugoslavia. As the movement began to gain popularity, Tito's partisans came to encompass Serbs, Bosniaks, Slovenes and Macedonians who believed in a unified Yugoslav state.
By 1943, the Partisan resistance movement had gained the upper hand, against the odds, and in 1945, with help from the Soviet Red Army (passing only through small parts such as Vojvodina), expelled the Axis forces and local supporters. The ZAVNOH, state anti-fascist council of people's liberation of Croatia, functioned since 1944 and formed an interim civil government.NDH's ministers of War and Inter safety Mladen Lorković and Ante Vokić tried to switch to Allied side.Poglavnik was in the beginning supporting them but when he found that he would need to leave his position he prisoned them in Lepoglava prison where they were killed.After that NDH's was more bondaged to faith of Third Reich. By the end of 1941 Ustashas seriously negotiated with the Partisans about organising combined Ustashi-Communist government but that failed when Axis states attacked SSSR.
Following the defeat of the Independent fascist State of Croatia at the end of the war a large number of presumed Nazi supporters, known as Ustaše, and civilians supporting them (ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were motivated by Partisan atrocities) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge. They were instead interned by British forces and then returned to the Partisans. A large number of these persons were killed in what has come to be called the Bleiburg massacre.
[edit] SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1991)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia#Et...economic_crisisYugoslavia during World War II
See also: Participants in World War II#Yugoslavia
[edit] The invasion of Yugoslavia
Main article: Invasion of Yugoslavia
At 5:12 a.m. on April 6, 1941, German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian forces attacked Yugoslavia. The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) bombed Belgrade and other major Yugoslav cities. On April 17, representatives of Yugoslavia's various regions signed an armistice with Germany at Belgrade, ending eleven days of resistance against the invading German Army (Wehrmacht Heer). More than three hundred thousand Yugoslav officers and soldiers were taken prisoner.
The Axis Powers occupied Yugoslavia and split it up. The Independent State of Croatia was established as a Nazi puppet state, ruled by the fascist militia known as the Ustaše that came into existence in 1929, but was relatively limited in its activities until 1941. German troops occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as part of Serbia and Slovenia, while other parts of the country were occupied by Bulgaria, Hungary, and Italy. During this time the Independent State of Croatia created concentration camps for anti-fascists, communists, Serbs, Gypsies and Jews. One such camp was Jasenovac. A large number of men, women and children, mostly Serbs, were executed in these camps.[1]