A communiqué de VoiceofCroatia.net

Dear friends,

I’m cleaning up. A bit more of my past “lives” goes into garbage via useless books and papers…

Some shall stay, but I guess there are better erudits to study certain matters, and I can go my way, to become a bit more useful, hé…

Before I put yet another paper in the garbage bag, I will share something both funny and sad with you.

“Croatia emerges from ruins – Country was vacation haven for 100 years”, wrote The Gazette Montreal on January 11, 1997.

Headline all along the page (left margin):

“Optimism has replaced resolve. Croatian army successes have brought back a sense of the future.

A Canadian firm has built a wonderful underground shopping mall outside the Esplanade Hotel and there are two McDonald’s in Zagreb.”

The success, that was Operation Storm, now under ICTY’s jurisdiction…

Today, only shopping and McDonald’s, I believe, still make a successful future in Zagreb.

Perhaps Croatia would have been better off if McDonald’s was sent before the ICTY in The Hague, rather than its military success.

The article, at least, goes into the garbage now…  As for Croatia, they are writing now, at a quite wrong moment, that general Ante Gotovina would get 27 years for that success. To scare the rats and real criminals a bit more, I guess. I doubt God shall permit such injustice – rather, Croatia and McDonald’s shall become a past.