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'''Wikipedia's''' article on the Bleiburg massacre,<ref> Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases by Inc Icon Group International</ref> is an article that reads as if it was written by the former ''Communist Party of Yugoslavia''. It has a dated writing approach that is reminiscent of the propaganda of the former [[Communists|Communist Yugoslavia]].  
 
'''Wikipedia's''' article on the Bleiburg massacre,<ref> Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases by Inc Icon Group International</ref> is an article that reads as if it was written by the former ''Communist Party of Yugoslavia''. It has a dated writing approach that is reminiscent of the propaganda of the former [[Communists|Communist Yugoslavia]].  
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</ref> This is true, but it is only part of the picture. The communists executed,<ref>'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' - Slovenia (a former republic of Yugoslavia):  
 
</ref> This is true, but it is only part of the picture. The communists executed,<ref>'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' - Slovenia (a former republic of Yugoslavia):  
 
* "After the armistice the British repatriated more than 10,000 Slovene collaborators who had attempted to retreat with the Germans, and [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]] had most of them massacred at the infamous Pits of Kocevje".</ref> without trial, a huge number of people that were deemed guilty by ''association only''. <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qMZaPjrHqYYC&pg=PA283&dq=josip+broz+tito&hl=en&ei=BGf-S66gBMWrcc3wnZcK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=josip%20broz%20tito&f=false Balkan Strongmen:] Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe ''by'' Bernd Jurgen Fischer. (p283)</ref>  
 
* "After the armistice the British repatriated more than 10,000 Slovene collaborators who had attempted to retreat with the Germans, and [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]] had most of them massacred at the infamous Pits of Kocevje".</ref> without trial, a huge number of people that were deemed guilty by ''association only''. <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qMZaPjrHqYYC&pg=PA283&dq=josip+broz+tito&hl=en&ei=BGf-S66gBMWrcc3wnZcK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=josip%20broz%20tito&f=false Balkan Strongmen:] Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe ''by'' Bernd Jurgen Fischer. (p283)</ref>  
 
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'''Note''': Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical by David B. MacDonald. (p168):
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{{Cquote|The Partisans also carried out massacres, best known being at '''Bleiburg''' (Austria), where retreating Croatian and [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] forces and thier families were massacred.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZK2WE_2H3UEC&pg=PA168&dq=Bleiburg+massacre&hl=en&ei=kbsiTJMDIHJcc2kzIkF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAzge#v=onepage&q&f=false Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide:] The Holocaust and Historical ''by'' David B. MacDonald. (p168)</ref>}}
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'''Note''': Reference information below from ''Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide'': The Holocaust and Historical by David B. MacDonald. (p168):
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{{Cquote|''The Partisans also carried out massacres, best known being at Bleiburg (Austria), where retreating [[Croatia|Croatian]] and [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] forces and thier families were massacred''.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZK2WE_2H3UEC&pg=PA168&dq=Bleiburg+massacre&hl=en&ei=kbsiTJMDIHJcc2kzIkF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAzge#v=onepage&q&f=false Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide:] The Holocaust and Historical ''by'' David B. MacDonald. (p168)</ref>}}
    
'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' on events post [[World War Two]] in Yugoslavia:
 
'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' on events post [[World War Two]] in Yugoslavia:
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'''Note''': Reference information below: Milko Mikola- Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes. Chapter 3. Mass killings without court trials. (p163-p164)  
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'''Note''': Reference information below from Milko Mikola- Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes. Chapter 3. Mass killings without court trials. (p163-p164)  
    
(organised by the [[Slovenia|Slovenian Presidency]] of the Council of the [[European Union]] and the ''European Commission'') <ref>[http://europa.eu/institutions/inst/comm/index_en.htm The European Commission:]
 
(organised by the [[Slovenia|Slovenian Presidency]] of the Council of the [[European Union]] and the ''European Commission'') <ref>[http://europa.eu/institutions/inst/comm/index_en.htm The European Commission:]
 
*"The '''Commission''' is independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws, which it presents to the European Parliament and the Council. It is also the EU’s executive arm – in other words, it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council. That means managing the day-to-day business of the [[European Union]]: implementing its policies, running its programmes and spending its funds. Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties."</ref>
 
*"The '''Commission''' is independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws, which it presents to the European Parliament and the Council. It is also the EU’s executive arm – in other words, it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council. That means managing the day-to-day business of the [[European Union]]: implementing its policies, running its programmes and spending its funds. Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties."</ref>
 
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*The Main Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army had already called attention to respecting the ''Geneva Convention'' on 3rd of  May in its order on the treatment of prisoners of war. However, despite this injunction, both prisoners of war and civilians were killed on mass at the end of May and in the first half of June 1945 in Slovenia. Tito’s telegram on respecting the Geneva Convention was later revoked; however, it could only be revoked by the person who issued it in the first place, i.e. Tito himself.
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*''The Main Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army had already called attention to respecting the Geneva Convention on 3rd of  May in its order on the treatment of prisoners of war. However, despite this injunction, both prisoners of war and civilians were killed on mass at the end of May and in the first half of June 1945 in Slovenia. Tito’s telegram on respecting the Geneva Convention was later revoked; however, it could only be revoked by the person who issued it in the first place, i.e. Tito himself.
* It is estimated, mainly on the basis of graves discovered up to now, that around 100,000 captured members of different military formations and  civilians from all parts of Yugoslavia were killed without a court trial in Slovenia.<ref> [http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"]  
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* ''It is estimated, mainly on the basis of graves discovered up to now, that around 100,000 captured members of different military formations and  civilians from all parts of Yugoslavia were killed without a court trial in Slovenia.''<ref> [http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"]  
 
(p163-p164)</ref>}}  
 
(p163-p164)</ref>}}  
 
==Aleksandar Rankovic==
 
==Aleksandar Rankovic==
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* "In a totalitarian state, personal freedom and human rights invariably most at the hands of unrestrianed police activity. That Yugoslavia was no exception was admitted by [http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/86-3-147.shtml Aleksandar Rankovic], himself head of secret police or State Security Administration. This organization is known in Yugoslavia as UDBA."</ref> was only answerable to [[Directory:Josip Broz Tito|Josip Broz Tito]]. Aleksandar Rankovic played a major role in these executions and the only person who could give Rankovic such an order was Tito.  The executions have some similarity to the Soviet Purges and the massacre of Polish troops by the Soviets.  
 
* "In a totalitarian state, personal freedom and human rights invariably most at the hands of unrestrianed police activity. That Yugoslavia was no exception was admitted by [http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/86-3-147.shtml Aleksandar Rankovic], himself head of secret police or State Security Administration. This organization is known in Yugoslavia as UDBA."</ref> was only answerable to [[Directory:Josip Broz Tito|Josip Broz Tito]]. Aleksandar Rankovic played a major role in these executions and the only person who could give Rankovic such an order was Tito.  The executions have some similarity to the Soviet Purges and the massacre of Polish troops by the Soviets.  
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'''Note''': NKVD executed tens of thousands of Polish political prisoners in 1939-1941/ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyń_massacre Katyn massacre ''link''].
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'''Note''': NKVD executed tens of thousands of Polish political prisoners in 1939-1941/ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyń_massacre Katyn massacre '''''link'''''].
    
== Repatriated ==
 
== Repatriated ==
The article had this one very dubious sentence at the bottom of the ''Events'' chapter- Events chapter [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events link]:
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The article had this one very dubious sentence at the bottom of the ''Events'' chapter. Events chapter [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events link]:
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{{Cquote|Wikipedia:  ''The vast majority of the refugees were returned to Yugoslavia and were repatriated as Yugoslav citizens via forced marches under inhumane conditions over long distances''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events|title=Wikipedia:Bleiburg Massacre |date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}}</ref>}}
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{{Cquote| [[Wikipedia]]: ''The vast majority of the refugees were returned to Yugoslavia and were '''repatriated''' as Yugoslav citizens '''via''' forced marches under inhumane conditions over long distances''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events|title=Wikipedia:Bleiburg Massacre |date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}}</ref>}}
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The key words are "'''repatriated''' as Yugoslav citizens".
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The key word is ''repatriated''.
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'''Concerning''' these events of repatriation into Yugoslav society (''via'' forced marches- referring to  Way of the Cross & Bleiburg massacres), the [[Titoism and Totalitarianism#European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"|European Public Hearing]] on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" stated:
 
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'''Concerning''' these events of repatriation into Yugoslav society (''via'' forced marches- referring to  Way of the Cross & Bleiburg massacres), The European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" stated:
      
*The victims of these events were estimate to be 100 000.
 
*The victims of these events were estimate to be 100 000.
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* Labour camps and concentration camps  were established in [[Slovenia]] (a former republic of Yugoslavia) under [[Communists|communist]] rule after the end of the [[World War Two]] in Slovenia.
 
* Labour camps and concentration camps  were established in [[Slovenia]] (a former republic of Yugoslavia) under [[Communists|communist]] rule after the end of the [[World War Two]] in Slovenia.
 
(Please read: [[Titoism and Totalitarianism#European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"|Titoism and Totalitarianism]]  for information on the European Commission)
 
(Please read: [[Titoism and Totalitarianism#European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"|Titoism and Totalitarianism]]  for information on the European Commission)
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It seems that the word ''repatriated'' does not reflect the truth of the matter. Wikipedia has some interesting editors.
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It seems that the word ''repatriated'' does not reflect the truth of the matter. Wikipedia has some '''interesting''' editors.
    
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Scientific Journal - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross:  
 
Scientific Journal - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross:  
*An Addition to the Research of the Problem of '''Bleiburg''' & Way of the Cross. This paper dedicated to the 60th anniversary of these tragic events represents a small step towards the elaboration of known data and brings a list of yet unknown and unpublished original documents, mostly belonging to the '''Yugoslavian Military''' and Political Government 1945-1947.  
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*''An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg'& Way of the Cross. This paper dedicated to the 60th anniversary of these tragic events represents a small step towards the elaboration of known data and brings a list of yet unknown and unpublished original documents, mostly belonging to the Yugoslavian Military and Political Government 1945-1947.  
 
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*Amongst those documents are those mostly relating to Croatian territory although a majority of concentration camps and execution sites were outside of Croatia, in other parts of Yugoslavia. The author hopes that the readers will receive a complete picture about events related to ''Bleiburg'' and the Way of The Cross and the suffering of numerous Croats, which is confirmed directly in many documents and is related to the execution of a person or a whole group of people and sometimes non-stop for days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27516&lang=en|title=Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia: An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}} Scientific Journal by Zdravko Dizdar [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb] </ref>}}
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*''Amongst those documents are those mostly relating to Croatian territory although a majority of concentration camps and execution sites were outside of Croatia, in other parts of Yugoslavia. The author hopes that the readers will receive a complete picture about events related to ''Bleiburg'' and the Way of The Cross and the suffering of numerous Croats, which is confirmed directly in many documents and is related to the execution of a person or a whole group of people and sometimes non-stop for days.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27516&lang=en|title=Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia: An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}} Scientific Journal by Zdravko Dizdar [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb] </ref>}}
    
'''Note''': The article has been edited on the 26 August 2010, current version:
 
'''Note''': The article has been edited on the 26 August 2010, current version:
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'''Joze Dezman''' (director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, (Slovenia)  described the fundamental characteristics of the post-Second World War crimes:  
 
'''Joze Dezman''' (director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, (Slovenia)  described the fundamental characteristics of the post-Second World War crimes:  
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{{Cquote|Killing civilians and prisoners of was after [[Second World War]] is the greatest massacre of unarmed people of all times in [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] territory. Compared to Europe, the Yugoslav communist massacres '''after''' the Second World War are probably right after the Stalinist purges and the Great Famine in the Ukraine. The number of those killed in Slovenia in spring of 1945 can now be estimated at more than 100,000, Slovenia was the biggest post- War killing site in Europe.  
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{{Cquote|''Killing civilians and prisoners of was after [[Second World War]] is the greatest massacre of unarmed people of all times in [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] territory. Compared to Europe, the Yugoslav communist massacres after the Second World War are probably right after the Stalinist purges and the Great Famine in the Ukraine. The number of those killed in Slovenia in spring of 1945 can now be estimated at more than 100,000, Slovenia was the biggest post- War killing site in Europe.''
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It was a mixture of events, when in Slovenia there are retreating German units, collaborator units, units of Independent State of Croatia, Chetniks and Balkan civilians; more than 15,000 Slovenia inhabitants were murdered as well. Because of its brevity, number of casualties, way of execution and massiveness, it is an event that can be compared to the greatest crimes of [[Communists|communism]] and National Socialism. [http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer -''link'']}}
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''It was a mixture of events, when in Slovenia there are retreating German units, collaborator units, units of Independent State of Croatia, Chetniks and Balkan civilians; more than 15,000 Slovenia inhabitants were murdered as well. Because of its brevity, number of casualties, way of execution and massiveness, it is an event that can be compared to the greatest crimes of [[Communists|communism]] and National Socialism.'' [http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer -''link'']}}
 
== Croatian Medical Journal ==
 
== Croatian Medical Journal ==
 
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705010/ Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II:  ''LInk'']: Combined Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and MiniSTR Approach.
 
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705010/ Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II:  ''LInk'']: Combined Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and MiniSTR Approach.
 
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*'''Aim''':To report on the use of STR, Y-STRs, and miniSTRs typing methods in the identification of victims of revolutionary violence and crimes against humanity '''committed''' by the Communist Armed Forces during and after World War II in which bodies were exhumed from mass and individual graves in Slovenia.
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*'''Aim''':To report on the use of STR, Y-STRs, and miniSTRs typing methods in the identification of victims of revolutionary violence and crimes against humanity committed by the Communist Armed Forces during and after World War II in which bodies were exhumed from mass and individual graves in Slovenia.
 
* In 2006, the Commission for Recording and Managing Hidden Graves of the Major of the Municipality of Skofja Loka (a city located around 40 km to the northwest from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana) put in a significant effort to identify victims of the Communist Armed Forces discovered in 2 hidden mass graves uncovered at the location Lovrenska Grapa. <ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705010/#R14 Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II:] Combined Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and MiniSTR Approach-Croatian Medical Journal.</ref>}}
 
* In 2006, the Commission for Recording and Managing Hidden Graves of the Major of the Municipality of Skofja Loka (a city located around 40 km to the northwest from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana) put in a significant effort to identify victims of the Communist Armed Forces discovered in 2 hidden mass graves uncovered at the location Lovrenska Grapa. <ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705010/#R14 Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II:] Combined Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and MiniSTR Approach-Croatian Medical Journal.</ref>}}
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*Edited by Peter Jambrek.<ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc93/EDOC6913.htm Council of Europe-Parliamentary Assembly]</ref> Published by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the '''European Union Crimes''' and other gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe: cross- national survey of crimes committed and of their remembrance, recognition, redress, and reconciliation.
 
*Edited by Peter Jambrek.<ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc93/EDOC6913.htm Council of Europe-Parliamentary Assembly]</ref> Published by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the '''European Union Crimes''' and other gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe: cross- national survey of crimes committed and of their remembrance, recognition, redress, and reconciliation.
 
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml#six BBC-History: Partisan Fighters] War in the Balkans 1941-1945. Dr Stephen A Hart: Senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Author of 'The Road to Falaise: Operations Totalize & Tractable' (Alan Sutton 2004), 'Montgomery and Colossal Cracks': The 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe,1944-45' (Praeger, 2000).  
 
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml#six BBC-History: Partisan Fighters] War in the Balkans 1941-1945. Dr Stephen A Hart: Senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Author of 'The Road to Falaise: Operations Totalize & Tractable' (Alan Sutton 2004), 'Montgomery and Colossal Cracks': The 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe,1944-45' (Praeger, 2000).  
{{Cquote|'''Qquote''' - BBC History: Murder, rape and mass executions were all too common in Yugoslavia during World War Two - carried out by '''Partisan fighters''' as well as by Chetnik rebels and German troops.}}
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{{Cquote|''Murder, rape and mass executions were all too common in Yugoslavia during World War Two - carried out by Partisan fighters as well as by Chetnik rebels and German troops.''}}
 
*Encyclopaedia Britannica
 
*Encyclopaedia Britannica
 
* [[Slovenia|Government of Slovenia]]: Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Concealed_Mass_Graves_in_Slovenia ''Link'']
 
* [[Slovenia|Government of Slovenia]]: Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Concealed_Mass_Graves_in_Slovenia ''Link'']
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Public_Hearing_on_“Crimes_Committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes%22 Wikipedia: European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Public_Hearing_on_“Crimes_Committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes%22 Wikipedia: European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes]
 
*[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=30348&view=findpost&p=246461 How to manipulate Wikipedia]
 
*[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=30348&view=findpost&p=246461 How to manipulate Wikipedia]
{{Cquote| Wikipedia has become the new battleground for Israel's PR image. The Yisrael Sheli (My Israel) movement and the Yesha Council, which represents Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, have joined together for a new public relations initiative. Together they will soon offer a special course for volunteers who wish to write and edit English entries on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.'' (Israel National News)}}
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{{Cquote| ''Wikipedia has become the new battleground for Israel's PR image. The Yisrael Sheli (My Israel) movement and the Yesha Council, which represents Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, have joined together for a new public relations initiative. Together they will soon offer a special course for volunteers who wish to write and edit English entries on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.'' (Israel National News)}}
 
*[http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/croatian-pm-pays-tribute-controversial-war-victims-news-494055 EurActiv Network] Croatian PM pays tribute to controversial war victims.
 
*[http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/croatian-pm-pays-tribute-controversial-war-victims-news-494055 EurActiv Network] Croatian PM pays tribute to controversial war victims.
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* Simo Dubajic- [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://amac.hrvati-amac.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D889%26Itemid%3D128&ei=3GLqSuhSo5TrA-vj4PUL&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSimo%2BDubajic%2B%2522Zivot%2BGreh%2Bi%2BKajanje%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DX Link] Former Yugoslav Partizan Commander: Simo Dubajic published a book entitled Život, Grijeh i Kajanje ''(Life, Sin and Killing)''.The book is a detail account about the post [[World War Two]] massacre of Croatian POWs (Way of the Cross) at Kocevski Rog, Slovenia.
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* Simo Dubajic- [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://amac.hrvati-amac.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D889%26Itemid%3D128&ei=3GLqSuhSo5TrA-vj4PUL&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSimo%2BDubajic%2B%2522Zivot%2BGreh%2Bi%2BKajanje%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DX Link] Former Yugoslav Partizan Commander: Simo Dubajic published a book entitled Život, Grijeh i Kajanje ''(Life, Sin and Killing)''.The book is a detail account about the post [[World War Two]] massacre of Croatian POWs (Way of the Cross Massacres) at Kocevski Rog, Slovenia.
    
*[http://slovenia1945.org/ Slovenia 1945 Book Official Site] - Memories of Death and Survival:
 
*[http://slovenia1945.org/ Slovenia 1945 Book Official Site] - Memories of Death and Survival:
{{Cquote|In May 1945, the British Army in Austria put 12,000 Slovene soldiers on board trains. The Slovenes thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia, and death.
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{{Cquote|''In May 1945, the British Army in Austria put 12,000 Slovene soldiers on board trains. The Slovenes thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia, and death.Slovenia 1945 follows the fate of Slovene anti-Communists who fled to Austria at the end of World War II. The British Army sent them back home, where their war-time enemies, Tito's Partisans, put them to death. Six thousand civilians narrowly escaped the same fate, after intervention by British Red Cross and Quaker aid workers.''
Slovenia 1945 follows the fate of Slovene anti-Communists who fled to Austria at the end of World War II. The British Army sent them back home, where their war-time enemies, Tito's Partisans, put them to death. Six thousand civilians narrowly escaped the same fate, after intervention by British Red Cross and Quaker aid workers.
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Based on moving interviews with survivors, the story follows the massacre of the soldiers, the survivors' tough years in refugee camps and triumph in making new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain. The book recounts how deeply issues of wartime collaboration and the Communist domination of the Partisan movement divide Slovenes today.}}
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''Based on moving interviews with survivors, the story follows the massacre of the soldiers, the survivors' tough years in refugee camps and triumph in making new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain. The book recounts how deeply issues of wartime collaboration and the Communist domination of the Partisan movement divide Slovenes today''.}}
    
('''Selected''' as "Book of the Year" 2005 in the Times Literary Supplement by '''John Bayley''', literary critic, retired Oxford University Professor and widower of Iris Murdoch. The authors wrote to Prime Minister ''Tony Blair'' asking for Britain to make a gesture of regret to Slovenia for sending back the surrendered soldiers.)
 
('''Selected''' as "Book of the Year" 2005 in the Times Literary Supplement by '''John Bayley''', literary critic, retired Oxford University Professor and widower of Iris Murdoch. The authors wrote to Prime Minister ''Tony Blair'' asking for Britain to make a gesture of regret to Slovenia for sending back the surrendered soldiers.)
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