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Holocaust

and its

Denial

The best online source on the Holocaust of European Jews (Shoah) and other minorities in Hitler's Nazi Germany and subsequent occupied territories - and the denial - articles and essays, eye-witness and survivor accounts, etc.:

http://www.anti-rev.org


From the same period, the plight of the Serbians (and Gypsies and Jews) in the hands of the Croatian Ustashe led by Ante Pavelic, the "Butcher of the Balkans" (check out Vatican complicity):

http://www.counterpunch.org/pavelic.html

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/pavelic.html

Jasenovac

Third largest concentration camp in Europe during World War II - Serbs.

http://www.4cbiz.net/kosta/tar/jasenovac/

http://www.jasenovac.org/

Role of the Vatican: http://vaticanbankclaims.com/home.html

 

A Shameful Chapter In the History of Roman Catholicism: Croatia 1941-1945

http://www.uwec.edu/Student/CMC/FreeRad/sept99/nord10.htm

"While paying lip service to the cause of human rights around the world, Pope John Paul II has chosen to sully the honor of his church by initiating the ritual that will put the late Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac on the path to sainthood. This took place on October 3, 1998 in Marija Bistrica, Croatia when the pope beatified the late Cardinal by declaring him to be 'blessed.'

"By thus conferring posthumous honors on the late Cardinal Stepinac, the Vatican is, in essence, conferring its blessing upon the regime for which Stepinac served as "chaplain." I am referring of course to the murderous regime of the Ustashe fascist Ante Pavelic, whose totalitarian Croatian state murdered some 750,000 Serbs, 50,000 Jews and 26,000 Romany (Gypsies) during World War II."
 

Croatian denialism of crimes against Serbs and others during World War II:

http://www.hic.hr/books/myth-reality/p06.htm


More on Genocide of Serbs in Croatia:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/RM1.SERB.DEMOCIDE.HTM


The plight of the Serbians in the hands of the Croats led by Ante Pavelic, the "Butcher of the Balkans" (check out Vatican complicity):

http://www.counterpunch.org/pavelic.html

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/pavelic.html

Jasenovac - third largest concentration camp in Europe during World War II.

http://www.4cbiz.net/kosta/tar/jasenovac/

http://www.jasenovac.org/

Role of the Vatican: http://vaticanbankclaims.com/home.html

 

A Shameful Chapter In the History of Roman Catholicism: Croatia 1941-1945

http://www.uwec.edu/Student/CMC/FreeRad/sept99/nord10.htm

While paying lip service to the cause of human rights around the world, Pope John Paul II has chosen to sully the honor of his church by initiating the ritual that will put the late Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac on the path to sainthood. This took place on October 3, 1998 in Marija Bistrica, Croatia when the pope beatified the late Cardinal by declaring him to be "blessed."

By thus conferring posthumous honors on the late Cardinal Stepinac, the Vatican is, in essence, conferring its blessing upon the regime for which Stepinac served as "chaplain." I am referring of course to the murderous regime of the Ustashe fascist Ante Pavelic, whose totalitarian Croatian state murdered some 750,000 Serbs, 50,000 Jews and 26,000 Romany (Gypsies) during World War II.

 

Croatian denialism of crimes against Serbs and others during World War II:

http://www.hic.hr/books/myth-reality/p06.htm


War Against the Dead by Modern European Taliban...

http://www.decani.yunet.com/wad.html

The following photos were taken in a few Serb Orthodox villages near Pec (Western part of Kosovo Province): Brestovik, Berkovo and Siga during the second half of 2001. They illustrate desecration of Orthodox Christian cemeteries by Kosovo Albanian vandals and extremists. These scenes of horror and pain do not show the war-time damage and vandalism but are testimony to the post-war systematic destruction of everything which is Serb and Christian in this region.

Despite the more than 100 destroyed and heavily damaged Orthodox churches in Kosovo and Metohija, not many people in the world are aware that in addition to a visible war against the living Serbs and their culture, an invisible and incomprehensible war against the dead is being waged by Kosovo Albanian vandals, who are destroying and desecrating Serb cemeteries all over the Province despite the presence of NATO led troops and the UN Mission.

(...)

The message sent by destroyed Serb villages, desecrated cemeteries and churches is that there is no more place even for dead Serbs in Kosovo, not to mention the living ones. While UN and KFOR officials in Pristina boastfully speak of the progress of democracy, Kosovo Albanian extremists continue to destroy with impunity all remaining traces of Serb existence and culture in the region turning the Province with centuries long Christian tradition into almost an exclusively Islamicized territory.

(...)

More:

http://www.kosovo.com/groblja_80.html

http://www.kosovo.com/edevic.html

http://www.kosovo.com/esvraci.html

http://www.kosovo.com/zoch.html

 

Cultural Genocide in Kossovo - VirtualANI

NATO's 50th Birthday Dinner

http://www.virtualani.freeserve.co.uk/history/history3/kossovo.htm

Even before the American led elimination of Kossovo's 250,000 non-Albanians had been completed, that region's priceless collection of medieval churches and monasteries had begun to be destroyed. Many of these buildings were exceptionally important, not only for their intrinsic beauty, but because they were a bridge between the medieval architecture of eastern and western Europe - between the Byzantine and Romanesque styles.

By the end of 1999 at least 55 Serbian Orthodox churches had been demolished or badly damaged according to NATO's own figures - the figure was over 70 according to Serbian sources. To date (August 2000) the official (NATO) figure is over 100 churches destroyed or seriously damaged. Other non-Albanian monuments - such as graveyards, statues, war memorials - have also been levelled. There have also been reports of historic Ottoman mosques and graveyards in Kossovo being destroyed by Saudi backed Islamic fundamentalists who consider them to be creations of an "impure" branch of Islam. (...)

 

-:{ 17th of November, 2002 }:-

ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS BLOW UP TWO ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN KOSOVO

BELGRADE, NOVEMBER 17, 2002. /RIA Novosti correspondent Sergei Ryabikin/ -- Albanian extremists blew up two Orthodox churches at the villages of Ljubovo and Djurakovic, destroying the first and damaging the second, a spokesman for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo /UNMIK/ Andre Anjeli said in Pristina.

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2859917&startrow=1&date=2002-11-17&do_alert=0

CULTURAL GENOCIDE:
THE DESTRUCTION OF SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BY NATO, KFOR, UNMIC AND THE SO-CALLED "KLA"

by Milos Raickovich

Milos Raickovich, a Serbian-American composer and anti-war activist, spoke on the destruction of churches and cultural sites in occupied Kosovo and Metohija, a crime against humanity.

The official name of the Serbian province under NATO occupation is not simply Kosovo, as it is referred to by the mainstream media, but rather Kosovo and Metohija. Sometimes, Kosovo and Metohija is abbreviated as a compound word, Kosmet. The word Kosovo comes from Serbian, Kosovo Polje, or The Field of the Blackbirds, while Metohija means The Land of the Monasteries. This is extremely important. By dropping Metohija from the region’s name, NATO propaganda and the mainstream media are concealing the fact that this is the land where 1400 Serbian medieval churches and monasteries are to be found. These shrines are masterpieces of European and Byzantine architecture, as well as fresco painting. In other words, Serbs and other ethnic groups are not only being expelled from Kosmet, but the genuine historical name of the region, Kosovo and Metohija, is being erased.

This kind of oversimplification is an imperialist game. Once the truncated name, Kosovo or, as the KLA calls it, Kosova, is introduced, next comes the concept of the Kosovars. By falsely naming Albanians after the region, NATO propaganda suggests that the Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija are the only historical people of the region, and that they hold an exclusive claim to it. As in Krajina and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs are once again presented as foreigners in their own homeland.

The imperialist occupation has brought with it cultural genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Roma, Jews, Turks, Egyptians, Goranis, Slavic Muslims, pro-Yugoslav Albanians and others have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija under NATO supervision. In order to erase all trace of Serbs, the terrorist "KLA" has launched a systematic campaign to destroy Serbian churches and monasteries by first robbing and looting them of icons, manuscripts and other relics, then by desecrating, burning and mining these monuments and houses of worship, until they are finally demolished.



To this day, the number of shrines that have been destroyed is unknown, because many are located in areas to which Serbian clergy has no access, due to the reign of terror imposed by the "KLA" and NATO. The number of documented cases of destruction, according to the evidence collected as of May 2000, was approximately 100 churches and monasteries destroyed and desecrated. Most of these shrines were destroyed in the U.S., Italian and German zones, while the rate of destruction is slightly less in the zones controlled by the British and French. To sum up, more Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed in the first year of NATO occupation than during 500 years of the Ottoman Empire’s occupation of Serbia.

NATO propaganda often suggests that the presence of the KFOR troops is the only guarantee for the protection of cultural sites in Kosovo and Metohija. Sheer hypocrisy! NATO bombs struck some of these holy sites directly, and NATO bombs fell close enough to others to shake their foundations. NATO also brought "KLA" terrorists into Kosovo and Metohija. This is an ongoing crime against the whole region and its people. It is cultural genocide.

The only way to stop the destruction is by the restoration of a multicultural society under the protection of the Serbian and Yugoslav authorities. Let us hope that Vietnam will not be repeated here, and that NATO, KFOR, SFOR, UNMIC and the "KLA" terrorists will disband and withdraw from the region before they are all defeated and expelled by the people of the Balkans.

Long live multicultural Serbia and all of its 27 minorities! Long live Yugoslavia!


All the way into Slovenia...

The Trial of German Major War Criminals
Sitting at Nuremberg, Germany
29th July to 8th August 1946

"On 9th June, 1944, and on the following days the Waffen SS from Trieste committed atrocities and crimes against the Slovene population in the Slovene coastal area, as we have already stated above.''

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-20/tgmwc-20-196-06.shtml


Croats in the Bleiburg Tragedy:

http://www.croatia.net/bleiburg/page4/page5/page5.html


Letter to The FINANCIAL TIMES
Clarification to the three pages of comprehensive coverage on Slovenia, 
published in The FINANCIAL TIMES on July 11, 2000.
by Dr. Ljubo Sirc

http://www.prah.net/slovenia/press/financialtimes.htm


 Christoslavism:

http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/postings/christoslavism1.html

http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/postings/christoslavism2.html


International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights 

http://www.ihf-hr.org/appeals/990510.htm


What has Christianity Today to say?

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/9b1/9b1010.html


Unconquered Bosnia - lots of links, 99% of which I haven't been able to check out yet!

http://members.tripod.com/~UnconqueredBosnia/Index.html


KOSOVO / KOSOVA As Seen, As Told

http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/p5kpo.htm

More on Kosovo:

http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/Kosovo/Kosovo-index.htm


The Balkans: Lies Vs. Facts

http://www.iacenter.org/liesfcts.htm


Alternative Serbian site:

http://www.freeserbia.net/Home.html


Serb Adolf innocent of genocide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1423557.stm


Serbian position on the much-debated fall of Srebrenica - Serbian victims:

http://serbiandefenseleague.com/bosnia/srebvic1.htm

http://serbiandefenseleague.com/bosnia/exhume1.htm

More on Srebrenica:

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/bosnia/

Dutch cabinet resigns over Srebrenica massacre

http://www.guardian.co.uk/yugo/article/0,2763,685377,00.html


Trial of Dinko Sakic

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/thread?forumid=215831&messageid=1036751353&lp=1036751555


Serbs of Kupres - from majority to victim (includes testimonies from witnesses/survivors):

http://www.balkanpeace.org/wcs/wct/wcts/wcts30.shtml


An Algerian Muslim about the Serb genocide of Bosnians:

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0995/9509028d.html


Book review - Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia; check out the way rape is presented as biological warfare:

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/bookrev/allen1.html


Book: The Killing Days

While tourists sunned themselves on Italian beaches only an hour’s flight away and Europe enjoyed the Barcelona Olympics, Kemal was imprisoned in Omarska concentration camp with his brother and thousands of other innocent Muslims.

http://www.bosnia.co.uk/books/kd/


Human Rights Archives on the Genocide in Bosnia
(and attempted genocide in Kosovo)

http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports.html


Angered at being constantly threatened by the same enemy repeatedly, this time Rome wrote no treaty with Carthage. To ensure that the Carthaginians never threatened them again, the Romans killed or enslaved the population of Carthage, physically destroyed the city and ploughed over the ruins, putting salt into the earth so that nothing would grow there again.

http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/hwr12.htm

Note that this is admitted by a source that exhumes the following regarding miscegenation (bottom of the page):

The path followed by Rome mirrored that followed by Sumeria, the Near East, Egypt and Greece. All these civilizations remained intact as long as the society which created them remained homogeneous.

As soon as these societies lost their homogeneity and became multi-racial, the very nature of the societies changed and the original civilizations disappeared. Rome would prove to be no exception to this rule.

You can visit the index page for more:

http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/index.htm

Presented to you by http://www.stormfront.org/, the "White Nationalist Resource Page"... 

Continuing from above, read what "White Nationalists" think about what racism is... (Or maybe they mean to say "racialism"?)

http://www.stormfront.org/whitenat/racism.htm

Folks, making sweeping generalizations about groups of people on the racial level has to be condemned. Most such generalizations put down another group, and this is more often the case of Caucasians against Negroid folks than vice versa. "Daring" to condemn such is no more taking liberty than is condemning sweeping generalizations against nations within the Caucasoid race (Irish, Italians, etc.)... Whereas it is more possible to characterize small groups, such as tribes and even families, this is not done, and the more risky venue when it comes to accuracy is taken and African persons as well as Asiatic ones are put down - put down because, in the same way, comparing the "competence" and like among families and/or tribes will be putting down the less privileged (less privileged whether economically or intellectually).

Back to Carthage - so many people were enslaved:

The Romans plowed through and leveled everything including houses and walls. Then they sowed salt on the fields (to guarantee that nothing would ever grow there again) and 50,000 people were sold into slavery. Thus Rome made certain that she would have no rival in the West.

http://www.bible-history.com/rome/RomeThe_Third_Punic_War.htm

Actually, it is not certain that the salting took place:

It is alledged that the Roman army then turned up stones, plowed the land over, and salted it.** By salting it, they guaranteed that no Carthage could rise up from the ruins of the old. This tale has been told for many years however, there is debate as to whether the Romans did indeed salt the earth. The territory was made into the Roman province of Africa.

http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/historia/republic/punic4.htm

But - guess what - slavery and demolition did take place!


Since 5 September 1999 Russia has been engaged in renewed aggression against the small Caucasian nation of the Chechen people. Approximately 400,000 Chechens have fled their homes under the onslaught of Russian bombardment, many for the second time in five years.  Mosques, hospitals, market places and refugee convoys have all been attacked. According to Chechen government estimates, between 5.9.1999 and 1.11.1999 over 3,000 people were killed by bombs and shells.  No-one has counted how many have perished from exhaustion and hunger. By their new war, the continuation of their genocide of 1994-96, the government of Yeltsin and Putin has demonstrated one thing clearly: the Stalinist tradition has survived intact in Russia.

The Chechen people must likewise give up their unlawful practices of hostage-taking and trafficking in human beings and distance themselves from their extremist military commanders. The Society for Threatened Peoples condemns the atrocity of the bombings carried out in Moscow and Volgodonsk, whoever they may have been committed, as well as Russia's terror bombing of Chechnya.  Genocide is the most heinous crime of which human beings are capable.  This is a matter on which there can be no compromise.  Extremists such as Hattab, Raduyev and Bassayev are popular because of the courage they have shown in fighting the criminal activities of the Russians in Chechnya.  However they have brought ruin to Chechnya.  The Russian human rights activitist Sergei Kovalyov was right when he called for the Chechens to build themselves a humane legal system: "They must renounce the barbaric system of Sharia law.  People do not chop hands and feet off."

http://www.gfbv.de/gfbv_e/docus/russ_e.htm

And then people object to Turkish operations in northern Iraq, the cesspit where Kurdish terrorists (formerly known as the PKK - pe-ka-ka, bok-kaka), the kinds of hýrtapoz who stop buses and ask passengers for visas to Kurdistan and then just shoot everyone, thrive. Of course, there is nothing objectionable in Russia's bombing Chechnya back to the Stone Age because of the 1999 assault in Dagestan or the American strike on Afghanistan following 9/11. Ho-hum, <yaaaaaawn>...


Genocide Watch: Chechnya

http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/chechnya/chechnya.php

Russia in the Caucasus - Chechnya - Russia On Autopilot, Muslim Genocide Continues

http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Russia.html

Russia is committing war crimes and genocide 

A memorandum of Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker / Society for Threatened Peoples - International 
(18. November 1999)

http://www.gfbv.de/gfbv_e/docus/russ_e.htm


A plea for Chechens

http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/russian/public.htm


Children of the Conflict in Chechnya

A group of such children arrive in the Crimea to receive resort treatment financed by Moscow Mayor

http://day.kiev.ua/DIGEST/2000/012/1-page/1p1.htm


Center for the Prevention of Genocide:

http://www.genocideprevention.org/Russia.htm


The Arabat Tragedy: Another Page from the "Surgun"

Kobulov orders: ‘ If a single Tatar remains alive in two hours, your heads will roll’

http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/arabat.htm


The statement of the representative of MEJLIS OF THE CRIMEAN TATAR PEOPLE at the 12th session of the Working Group on the Indigenous population to the U.N.O. July 1994

Crimean Tatars - the Indigenous People of Crimea have been formed on the territory of the peninsula during a thousand years as the result of interrelation and mixing of aboriginals and different tribes, settled in the Crimea. The State system of Crimean Tatar people - the Crimean Khanate - was abolished in 1783 as a result of annexation of the Crimea by the Russian empire. Since that time the Indigenous People have become the object of innumerable repressions, political, economic, cultural, religious and other opressions on the Russian empire's part and the communist regime then. The total population was reduced from 2.5 million in 1783 to 130,000 in 1921, owing to the permanent violence, while its territory was thoroughly settled by colonists. In May 1944, the Crimean Tatar people were subjected to total deportation from the Crimea to the regions of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Ural and Siberia. It was an act of genocide and as a result of it more than 46% total Crimean Tatar's population was eliminated because of violence, hunger and drudgery. Hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars were deprived of their Homeland, habitation, property and lands.

http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/Eurasia/tatar94.txt


The Crimean Tatars - HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE CRIMEAN TATARS ON THE INTERNET

After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire in the 18th century, the Crimean Khanate stopped existing. From that time until the tragic events of 1944, hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars were compelled to abandon their native land. At the same time, the historical and cultural heritage of the people was destroyed. By the beginning of World War I, the Crimean Tatars had been transformed into an ethnic minority on their native land. The final step in this long-term oppression and genocide was taken by the Soviet Government on 18 May 1944. On this day, the whole nation was deported to remote regions of Central Asia. This brutal and inhuman action resulted in the death of thousands of people. Shortly thereafter, all the place names on the peninsula, somehow connected to the Crimean Tatars, were changed. All books in the Crimean Tatar language were burnt, and schools and libraries were closed.

http://www.iccrimea.org/reports/seitosman.html


Ukraine, Russia, and the Caucasus - check out the Karachais.

http://vip.latnet.lv/LPRA/UKRAINE.html


Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland

http://vip.latnet.lv/LPRA/ESTONIA.html


Soviet-instigated Ukrainian famine/genocide

http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/


Latvian genocide

http://vip.latnet.lv/LPRA/holocaus.htm


The United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Bill

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmbills/166/00166--a.htm

Index: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmbills/166/2000166.htm


International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights: Press Release on Chechnya: Adequate Security Conditions Do Not Exist in Chechnya
to Allow the Return of Displaced Citizens --
A Pattern of Increasing Disappearances “Bordering on Genocide.”

http://www.ihf-hr.org/appeals/020723.htm


European Roma Rights Center

http://www.errc.org/

http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/holocaust/index.htm


The Fourth Crusade and Venice's role...

I think of this as a Western crime against the Byzantines/Greeks, although the mainstream tendency is to purport Catholic vs. Orthodox nyeah nyeah nyeah!

MOMENTS IN HISTORY

Presented by
Bill 'Mastermind' Fitzgerald®

#7 -The Fourth Crusade 1202-1204
www.users.bigpond.com/billmastermind/moments07.htm

(...) Those Venetians drove a hard bargain.

They had made great profits from their trade with the Muslims in Egypt and the Holy Land. But they were always open to better offers. They secretly assured the Sultan of Egypt that they had no intention of leading the Crusaders through his country. I wonder if the Sultan believed them?

When the Crusaders eventually arrived in Venice for their trip to the Holy Land they were short of the specified amount of cash demanded by the Venetians. So instead of going directly to the Holy Land via Egypt as they had expected to do (and as the Venetians had assured the Sultan of Egypt they would not do) the Venetians changed the plans.

They refused to transport the Crusaders to Egypt because of the shortfall in the money demanded of them. However, being good businessmen they had a negotiating point; they would relent on one condition. The Venetian Doge, Dandolo, ninety-five years old and totally blind, but he still drove a hard bargain, demanding that the Crusaders make up the deficit by helping him to seize the Adriatic coastal city of Zara from Hungary. When the Pope heard of this corrupt bargain he was furious. He threatened to excommunicate the Crusaders if they agreed to it.

The lure of booty, however, was apparently too strong to resist. The Crusaders ignored the Pope’s threat and joined the Venetians in taking Zara from the Hungarians. Only then did the Crusaders reply to the Pope, asking for his forgiveness! He agreed but only if they returned their booty. They accepted his forgiveness and kept the booty!

The Ventians had a second part to their plan, unbeknownst to the Crusaders, of course. This was even more audacious and unscrupulous. They intended to capture the very heart of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople itself! This would at least see them honoring one pledge, not to bring the Crusaders through Egypt! (...)

 

The Sack of Constantinople
The Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in AD 1203/1204

http://www.roman-empire.net/constant/1203-1204.html
Outlined as:
Background of the Fourth Crusade
The Crusade falls into Debt
The Assault on the City of Zara
The Plan to attack Constantinople is hatched
The Crusade arrives off Constantinople
The Capture of the Tower of Galata
The first Assault
Restoration of Isaac II
The Coronation of Alexius IV
The second Great Fire of Constantinople
The Night of the four Emperors
Alexius V takes Control
The second Assault
The final Assault
The Sack of Constantinople
The Triumph of Venice

 

Eye-witness account - Choniates.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/choniates1.html (From the Medieval Source Book)

. . . How shall I begin to tell of the deeds wrought by these nefarious men! Alas, the images, which ought to have been adored, were trodden under foot! Alas, the relics of the holy martyrs were thrown into unclean places! Then was se en what one shudders to hear, namely, the divine body and blood of Christ was spilled upon the ground or thrown about. They snatched the precious reliquaries, thrust into their bosoms the ornaments which these contained, and used the broken remnants for pans and drinking cups,-precursors of Anti-Christ, authors and heralds of his nefarious deeds which we momentarily expect. Manifestly, indeed, by that race then, just as formerly, Christ was robbed and insulted and His garments were divided by lot; only one thing was lacking, that His side, pierced bv a spear, should pour rivers of divine blood on the ground.

Nor can the violation of the Great Church [note: Hagia Sophia] be listened to with equanimity. For the sacred altar, formed of all kinds of precious materials and admired by the whole world, was broken into bits and distributed among the soldiers, as was all the other sacred wealth of so great and infinite splendor.

When the sacred vases and utensils of unsurpassable art and grace and rare material, and the fine silver, wrought with gold, which encircled the screen of the tribunal and the ambo, of admirable workmanship, and the door and many other ornaments, were to be borne away as booty, mules and saddled horses were led to the very sanctuary of the temple. Some of these which were unable to keep their footing on the splendid and slippery pavement, were stabbed when they fell, so that the sacred pavement was polluted with blood and filth.

Nay more, a certain harlot, a sharer in their guilt, a minister of the furies, a servant of the demons, a worker of incantations and poisonings, insulting Christ, sat in the patriarch's seat, singing an obscene song and dancing frequently. Nor, indeed, were these crimes committed and others left undone, on the ground that these were of lesser guilt, the others of greater. But with one consent all the most heinous sins and crimes were committed by all with equal zeal. Could those, who showed so great madness against God Himself, have spared the honorable matrons and maidens or the virgins consecrated to God?

Nothing was more difficult and laborious than to soften by prayers, to render benevolent, these wrathful barbarians, vomiting forth bile at every unpleasing word, so that nothing failed to inflame their fury. Whoever attempted it was derided as insane and a man of intemperate language. Often they drew their daggers against any one ivho opposed them at all or hindered their demands.

No one was without a share in the grief. In the alleys, in the streets, in the temples, complaints, weeping, lamentations, grief, the groaning of men, the shrieks of women, wounds, rape, captivity, the separation of those most closely united. Nobles wandered about ignominiously, those of venerable age in tears, the rich in poverty. Thus it was in the streets, on the corners, in the temple, in the dens, for no place remained unassailed or defended the suppliants. All places everywhere were filled full of all kinds of crime. Oh, immortal God, how great the afflictions of the men, bow great the distress!

 

Catholic perspective - good reading!

Reflections on the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and Lesser-Known Byzantine Atrocities
http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ291.HTM

Not only do you find the accounts of the victims -

Eastern Christendom has never forgotten those three appalling days of pillage . . . What shocked the Greeks more than anything was the wanton and systematic sacrilege of the Crusaders. How could men who had specially dedicated themselves to God's service treat the things of God in such a way? As the Byzantines watched the Crusaders tear to pieces the altar and icon screen in the Church of the Holy Wisdom, and set prostitutes on the Patriarch's throne, they must have felt that those who did such things were not Christians in the same sense as themselves . . .

Can we wonder if the Greeks after 1204 also looked on the Latins as profani? Christians in the west still do not realize how deep is the disgust and how lasting the horror with which Orthodox regard actions such as the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders.

{Ware, The Orthodox Church, NY: Penguin Books, revised 1980 edition, p. 69}

The sack that followed was one of the worst in all of history . . . No man, woman or child was safe from the ravagers. Robbery and rape were almost universal, mindless destruction widespread. Westerners . . . killed indiscriminately, without mercy or restraint . . . For this to have been done by crusaders - men actually wearing the Cross of Christ - was an ineffaceable disgrace . . . The Greeks never forgot the sack of Constantinople in 1204; its memory, more than anything else, has prevented the healing of the Greek schism from that day to this, despite several major efforts at reunion.

{The Glory of Christendom, Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 1993, p. 157-158}

These "soldiers of Christ" who should have turned their swords against the infidel have steeped them in Christian blood, sparing neither religion, nor age, nor sex . . . They stripped the altars of silver, violated the sanctuaries, robbed icons and crosses and relics . . . The Latins have given example only of perversity and works of darkness. No wonder the Greeks call them dogs!"

{cited in Carroll, ibid., p. 158; from Mann, Popes of the Middle Ages, vol. 12, pp. 266-267}

... but you also get the "background"...

Horrible and utterly indefensible as the sack was, it should in justice be remembered that it was not totally unprovoked; more than once (as in the massacre of 1182) the Greeks of Constantinople had treated the Latins there as they were now being treated . . . Historians who wax eloquent and indignant - with considerable reason - about the sack of Constantinople . . . rarely if ever mention the massacre of the westerners in Constantinople in 1182 . . . a nightmarish massacre of thousands [about 2000 Greeks were killed in Constantinople in 1204, according to secular historian Will Durant: The Age of Faith, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950, p. 605], . . . in which the slaughterers spared neither women nor children, neither old nor sick, neither priest nor monk. Cardinal John, the Pope's representative, was beheaded and his head was dragged through the streets at the tail of a dog; children were cut out of their mother's wombs; bodies of dead Westerners were exhumed and abused; some 4,000 who escaped death were sold into slavery to the Turks.

{Carroll, ibid., pp. 157, 131}

Each . . . must look back at the past with sorrow and repentance. Both sides must in honesty acknowledge that they could and should have done more to prevent the schism. Both sides were guilty of mistakes on the human level. Orthodox, for example, must blame themselves for the pride and contempt with which during the Byzantine period they regarded the west; they must blame themselves for incidents such as the riot of 1182, when many Latin residents at Constantinople were massacred by the Byzantine populace.

{Ware, ibid., p. 70}

In 1171, on the orders or at least with the tacit approval of the Byzantine government, thousands of Venetians in the Eastern empire had been killed, mutilated, or arrested and held for years in prison.

{Carroll, ibid., p. 150}

[In 1188] Frederick Barbarossa . . . requested permission of the Eastern Emperor, Isaac II Angelus, for passage of his army through Byzantine dominions on the way to the Holy Land, and for the right to purchase food for his troops within them. Isaac said he agreed . . . but in fact Isaac was resolved to oppose the passage of the crusaders, and made contact with Saladin [the Muslim commander] to concert plans "to delay and destroy the German army." About this "Byzantine treachery" there is no doubt; even the many modern Western historians sympathetic to Byzantium and hostile to the Crusades have to admit it [e.g., Emperor Isaac, in 1187, had written Saladin to congratulate him for his great achievement of re-taking Jerusalem from the Latin crusaders] . . .

[Frederick's envoys, imprisoned for a time] returned to Frederick . . . with infuriating (and accurate) reports of the Byzantine alliance with Saladin, plans to destroy the crusading army as it crossed the Dardanelles, and the violent anti-Western attitude of Patriarch Dositheus of Constantinople, who had offered unconditional absolution to any Greek killing a Westerner. Frederick passed on this information to his son Henry, . . . to ask the Pope's approval for a crusade against the Eastern Empire because of its treachery and dealings with the enemy. No Papal approval was given and Frederick soon thought better of the idea . . . Though a war against Christians was indubitably a perversion of the crusading ideal, Emperor Isaac's acts against the crusaders had clearly been acts of war . . .

Everything that the Fourth Crusade later did to Christendom's discredit, Frederick Barbarossa refused to do, though he was directly provoked as the leaders of the Fourth Crusade never were. The extent of Byzantine provocation of the Third Crusade is obvious from the sequence of events. It would be a long time before anyone in the West would trust them again.

{Carroll, ibid., pp. 130, 132-133}

More:

My friend William Klimon, an expert on Orthodoxy (who became a "Greek Catholic" on May 20, 1998), adds some relevant thoughts:

[name] wrote in message . . .

I cannot think of any incident in history in which Orthodox have invaded Roman Catholic territories and done anything even remotely like the atrocities committed by Roman Catholics in the East during the crusades.

Oh, I can. In May of 536, the Byzantine Army of Belisarius laid siege to, captured, and sacked Naples:

Belisarius had warned the Neapolitans at the beginning of the siege that if they put up any resistance he would be unable to restrain his army--which, he reminded them, was largely composed of semi-savage barbarians--from the murder, rapine and pillage which they would consider their just reward after the capture of the city. But the warning had been ignored, and the miserable citizens now paid the price of their heroism. It was many hours before Belisarius was able to persuade his motley hordes of Alans and Isaurians, Herulians and Huns--these last the most terrifying of all time, being pagans, they had no compunction in burning down the churches in which their intended victims had sought asylum--to put up their swords and spears and return to their various camps.

{J.J. Norwich, Byzantium: The Early Centuries (1989), p. 216}

'Tis oft said that those who have been subjected to genocide will commit genocide against others - the most popular example of which is cited as Israelis against Palestinians for what was done to the Jews... To this effect, Serbs "justified" their crimes through "revenge" for what was done to them by the Ustashe and Muslims during World War II.

<I can't find this one file where a Serbian concentration camp leader or such from Omarska confessed and "justified" the rape of Muslim and Croat women and torture and murder of men with World War II history - waaailll!!!!!! This will have to do: >

I heard beating and yelling.... At times it sounded as if wood were being shattered, but those were bones that were being broken.

...When they opened the door ..., they started yelling at us, "Ustasa slut, see what we do to them!" ...I saw two piles of blood and flesh in the corner. The two men were so horribly beaten that they no longer had the form of human beings.7

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/karadzic/atrocities/omarska.html

The Defence lawyer for Bosnian Serb Mladjo Radic, accused of crimes in the Omarska concentration camp, said last week that Bosnian war outrages could be attributed to "centuries-old hatred" among its peoples.

http://lists.partners-intl.net/pipermail/women-in-war/2001-March/000296.html

 

Yet, from the same Catholic-written article above:

It is interesting to read that the original Serbians were of the Latin rite and within Roman jurisdiction. Byzantine chicanery took them out of that, though. Crimes by Serbians against the Croatians far predate the reverse.

Conclusion - say "no" to vicious circles. Understand?


THE INQUISITION AND THE MARRANOS

http://www.shofar.org/shalom/8608_inquisition.htm


THE INQUISITION

http://www.messianicmoments.com/antisemitism/inquisition.html


Expulsion from Spain

http://www.sephardichouse.org/identity/decree.html

http://www.sephardicstudies.org/decree.html


Jewish History:

http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/1470.htm


Have you heard of the Catholic Emancipation in Britain? It is preceded by a much greater degree of religious freedom in the Ottoman Empire by at least three centuries!

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/peel/emancip.htm

Catholic Emancipation Act:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/catheman.htm

Click here for the oath of Sultan Mehmet II (the Conqueror). (And please make note of the date!)


Genocide against Sorbs (?)

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/thread?forumid=215831&messageid=1036749431&lp=1036751125


Trianon - dismemberment of the Hungarian nation?


http://www.interlog.com/~photodsk/magyar/rovas/huntrian.html

http://www.nemnemsoha.hu/angol2.txt

 

Atrocities against Hungarians...

http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/lib/atrocit.htm


Eastern European Constitutional Review: Romanian elites identify more with the Serbs while public opinion is divided

http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol8num3/feature/warnever.html


Magyarization of non-Hungarian minorities:


The Tragedy of the Romanian Minority in Hungary Revisited (http://www.miscarea-legionara.com/document3.html)

What Slovaks have to say - http://www.slovakia.org/history-magyarization.htm

Hungarian source mentions Magyarization - http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/lib/bors/bors03.htm

 

 

Last revised: Mon., Feb. 24, 2003