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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 is written in a non-encyclopaedic fashion and it has a dated writing approach that is reminiscent of the propaganda of the former [[Communists|Communist Yugoslavia]]. The Yugoslav regime was desperate to keep the massacre a secret however this all changed after  the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break up of Yugoslavia.  

'''Wikipedia's''' old article on the Bleiburg massacre was an article that read as if it was written by the former ''Communist Party of Yugoslavia''. It was written in a non-encyclopaedic fashion and it had a dated writing approach that is reminiscent of the propaganda of the former Yugoslavia.  

These events happened after the end of [[World War Two]]. It has been written that the massacre was a revenge <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/yugoslavia|title=www.enotes.com "Yugoslavia."Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Gale Cengage, 2005. eNotes.com. 2006. 26 Jun, 2010 Yugoslavia: Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity-Mark Thompson.|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}}  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Yugoslav regime was desperate to keep the massacres a secret however this all changed after  the fall of the '''Berlin Wall''' and the break up of Yugoslavia. These events happened after the end of [[World War Two]]. It has been written that the massacres were a revenge <ref> Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Volume 3 by  Dinah Shelton Macmillan Reference, 2005 - Political Science (p.1170) </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/yugoslavia|title=www.enotes.com "Yugoslavia."Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Gale Cengage, 2005. eNotes.com. 2006. 26 Jun, 2010 Yugoslavia: Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity-Mark Thompson.|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}}  

*"The killing continued after the war, as Tito's victorious forces took revenge on their real and perceived enemies. British forces in [[Austria]] turned back tens of thousands of fleeing Yugoslavs. Estimates range from 30,000 to 55,000 killed between spring and autumn 1945."</ref> against the war crimes that were committed by the Nazi element of the retreating Axis Forces.<ref>'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''': Independent State of Croatia  

*"The killing continued after the war, as Tito's victorious forces took revenge on their real and perceived enemies. British forces in [[Austria]] turned back tens of thousands of fleeing Yugoslavs. Estimates range from 30,000 to 55,000 killed between spring and autumn 1945."</ref> against the war crimes that were committed by the Nazi element of the retreating Axis Forces.<ref>'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''': Independent State of Croatia  

'''Note''': Reference information below from ''Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide'': The Holocaust and Historical by David B. MacDonald. (p168):

'''Note''': Reference information below from ''Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide'': The Holocaust and Historical by David B. MacDonald. (p168):

{{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>}}

{{Cquote|''The Partisans also carried out massacres, best known being at Bleiburg (Austria), where retreating [[Croatia|Croatian]] and [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] forces and their 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:

'''Note''': Reference information below from Milko Mikola- Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes. Chapter 3. Mass killings without court trials. (p163-p164)  

'''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.

*''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"]  

* ''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==

According to the scientific research of ''Z.Dizdar'', Partisan General '''Aleksandar Rankovic''' (head of the military intelligence post World War Two, the infamous UDBA)<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4t5gBayTeDQC&pg=PA214&dq=Yugoslavia+Totalitarian+state&hl=en&ei=CJ_eS7HuF8uLkAXJxd3PBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=Yugoslavia%20Totalitarian%20state&f=false Titoism in Action:] The Reforms in Yugoslavia After 1948  ''by'' Fred Warner Neal. Second chapter (p214):  

According to the scientific research of ''Z.Dizdar'', Partisan General '''Aleksandar Rankovic''' (head of the military intelligence post World War Two, the infamous UDBA)<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4t5gBayTeDQC&pg=PA214&dq=Yugoslavia+Totalitarian+state&hl=en&ei=CJ_eS7HuF8uLkAXJxd3PBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=Yugoslavia%20Totalitarian%20state&f=false Titoism in Action:] The Reforms in Yugoslavia After 1948  ''by'' Fred Warner Neal. Second chapter (p214):  

* "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.  

* "In a totalitarian state, personal freedom and human rights invariably most at the hands of unrestrained 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.  

 

 

The key words are "'''repatriated''' as Yugoslav citizens".

'''Note''': NKVD (Soviet Union) executed tens of thousands of Polish political prisoners in 1939-1941/ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyń_massacre Katyn massacre '''''link'''''].

'''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:

Aleksandar Rankovic at a Belgrade government meeting stated: {{Cquote|''Through our prisons has passed between 1945 and 1951, 3 777 776 prisoners, while we killed 586 000 enemies of the people.'' Taken from ''Politika'', Belgrade/1 February 1951 (p.1)  <ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7laAd_LLA6YJ:www.hic.hr/images/komunisticke-zlocinci-nisu-antifasizma.pdf+Zločina+počinjenih+od+strane+totalitarnih+režima+su+izvješća+i+postupak+Europske+javne+rasprave+u+organizaciji+slovenskog+predsjedništva+Vijeća&cd=4&hl=hr&ct=clnk&lr=lang_hr&source=www.google.com  Communist Crime is not Antifascism] Released on International Human Rights Day, 10 DECEMBER 2008. On behalf of the participants in public meetings Maja Runje, a member of the Steering Committee- Zagreb (p. 19). Article is in Croatian: ''KOMUNISTIČKI ZLOČINI NISU ANTIFAŠIZAM] POVODOM MEĐUNARODNOG DANA LJUDSKIH PRAVA,10. PROSINCA 2008. U ime sudionika javnog okupljanja Maja Runje, članica Koordinacijskog odbora Kruga za trg10 000 Zagreb, Jurjevska 47a (str. 19)'' </ref>}}

 

* 581 mass graves. <ref>[http://www.jutarnji.hr/u-581-grobnici-je-100-000-zrtava/310887/ www.jutarnji.hr]  U 581 Grobnici je 100.000 žrtava. [http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://www.jutarnji.hr/u-581-grobnici-je-100-000-zrtava/310887/&ei=8x3BS-n7MYH-6QP17L3CCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.jutarnji.hr/u-581-grobnici-je-100-000-zrtava/310887/%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us English version:] The Jutarnji newspaper reported on the 01/10/2009 commissions find, in all it is estimated that there are 100 000 victims in 581 mass graves</ref>

*There were a large number of civilians.

*Many of the victims were also women.

* 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)

 

It seems that the word ''repatriated'' does not reflect the truth of the matter. Wikipedia has some '''interesting''' editors.

 

 

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 and 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.  

*''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>}}

==Joze Dezman==

==Joze Dezman==

* [[Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!]]

* [[Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!]]

* [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia]]

* [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia]]

* [[Josip Broz Tito, Titoism and Wikipedia]]  

* [[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia| Wikipedia's bias towards Dictator Josip Broz Tito and Communist Yugoslavia]]

* [[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas| History of the Balkan states]]

* [[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas| History of the Balkan states]]

* [[Top 10 Reasons Not to Donate to Wikipedia]]

* [[Top 10 Reasons Not to Donate to Wikipedia]]

''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''.}}

''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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