Why did Stjepan Mesic say 80,000?
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/hina051407.htm
2007-05-23 20:29:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The idea of my question is why is there such a difference in numbers; not the factual but in emphasizing. We can all wiki, but what do you think is the reason?
2007-05-24 08:59:21 · update #1
Ivana, what I think is that there were many more than what Tudjman and Mesic have said. What I want to know is where does the "70,000 or 700,000" lead us in the necessary reconciliation - if any such in the near future? I also think that Mesic does know that the 80,000 refers to only the ones whose names have been documented...
2007-05-24 09:09:21 · update #2
The dependable statistics are difficult to trace, due to well known reasons. The Croats had been incorporated into the communist Yugoslavia, and thus spared the national disgrace which the Germans had to face after WWII. This was the fatal error, as the ghosts of Ustashi regime quickly came to life under Tudjman.
Why did Mesic say 80.000? That's an easy one - he is proud of Ustashi regime, he stated so loud and clear during his recent visit to Australia. By minimizing the victims toll, he sets his hopes high for deliverance.
But 700.000 victims are also alive. They live in the memory of their descendants. The babies, the children, the innocent.
I'm half Serbian, and my half comes from Jasenovac. I am making it sure that it is not forgotten.
2007-05-23 22:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Look, 70 000 or 700 000, does it really matter? Do you know how much is 70 000 people? 70 000!
I don't belive to Croats, especially not to Mesic, regarding this matter. They shouldn't speak about this anyway, there are indipendent experts that speak about this matter, and they are not biased.
Estimates of total number are from 300 000 to 700 000.
http://www.jasenovac-info.com/
Jasenovac is largest, but not the only. Many people were killed by Croats in WW II, in Banjaluka area. There are information about that too on this site.
2007-05-29 05:43:30 · answer #2 · answered by Jelena L. 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Jasenovac Memorial Area keeps a list of 69,842 names of Jasenovac victims: 39,580 Serbs, 14,599 Roma, 10,700 Jews, 3,462 Croats as well as people of some other ethnicities. Several other partial lists from other sources exist. The Belgrade Museum of the Holocaust keeps a list of 80,022 names of the victims (mostly from Jasenovac): around 52,000 Serbs, 16,000 Jews, 12,000 Croats and nearly 10,000 Roma.
The approximations in the death count also come from the fact that in cases where entire families were exterminated, no one was left to submit their names to the lists. Additionally, sometimes it happened that some people from the lists were killed elsewhere, or that they survived but were not heard of, or that there were duplicates.
To read more about this go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp#Victim_counts
2007-05-24 03:49:46 · answer #3 · answered by angela l 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
See the following:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Jasenovac.html
Some estimates are as high as 600,000 people killed there.
2007-05-24 03:46:52 · answer #4 · answered by conranger1 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
And how many do you think?
He probably said it because he believes that its the truth.
2007-05-24 09:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by zelenikaktus 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋