“In his book Wastelands: Historical Truths, published in 1988, Mr. Tudjman wrote that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust was 900,000 -- not six million.
He has also asserted that not more than 70,000 Serbs died at the hands of the Ustashe -- most historians say around 400,000 were killed.
[Prior to the onset of the crisis in Yugoslavia in 1991, the New York Times reported that 800,000 Serbs, Jews 'Gypsies' and opponents of the Croatian Ustashe were killed in Jasenovac (for example, see ). Starting in 1991, the Times drastically cut the reported numbers, without explanation or consistency, sometimes stating that "tens of thousands" were killed (March 4, 1991), and that unnamed "independent scholars in the United States" were the source of their estimate of 80,000 victims (May 19, 1996), and then again, in this 1995 article, stating that a) Tudjman was the source of the figure of 70,000 (so much for the "independent scholars") and b) that 400,000 had been killed (so much for the "tens of thousands.") - J.I.]
Under Mr. Tudjman’s leadership, Croatia began discriminating against Serbs in 1990 when it adopted a Constitution that declared Croatia “the national state of the Croatian nation.” Under the old Constitution, the Serbs had had equal status with the Croats.
Then the Government adopted a currency and flag associated with the Ustashe Government, a move that helped drive many moderate Serbs into the arms of the Serbian nationalists.”
-- A Would-Be Tito Helps to Dismantle His Legacy, The New York Times, August 20, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final, Franjo Tudjman, Section 1; Page 12; Column 3; Foreign Desk , 946 words, By RAYMOND BONNER , ZAGREB, Croatia, Aug. 18
This documents evidence that Croatia's anti-Slavic constitution in 1990 contributed to the break-up of Yugoslavia by forcing Serbs into nationalism, which led to suspension of Albanian autonomy in Kosova and the Kosova War of 1999. Today's Kosova independence thus is due to probably collaboration between Ustashe, Catholica, Muslims, and the US State Department.
Why do you think radical Serb nashis are rioting in Beograd today?
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