FRANCISCAN MONKS ACCUSED OF ETHNIC CLEANSING, THEN AND NOW
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From: Easton & Levy, Attorneys (513) 528-0586, (707) 464-4513
New for Immediate Release
A lawsuit filed in federal Court in San Francisco, Alperin v. Vatican Bank
and Franciscans OFM accuses the Croatian Franciscans OFM of Word War II
atrocities including leading pogroms against Serbs and Jews, burning Serbs
alive in their churches, and providing commanders for Croatian-Nazi
concentration camps. This little known but shameful period in the history
of Roman Catholic Church took place during World War II Yugoslavia and is
well documented by both Yugoslav and independent American sources.
Declassified CIA documents, 1998 US State Department Report, and the 1998
book "Unholy Trinity" by Mark Aaarons and John Loftus tell a story that
begins with the end of World War II with a cadre of Franciscan monks
hiding Nazi war criminals in the Vatican and providing passports for
escape to South America along the infamous Vatican "ratlines" whose
beneficiaries included the mass murderers Eichman, Barbie, Arkutovic and
Pavelic along with thousands of lesser known Nazis. John Loftus a former
Nazi hunter for the US government is serving as expert witness for the
plaintiffs.
The lawsuit in its proposed Second Amended complaint filed May 3 in San
Francisco focuses on the post war financial aspects of the Vatican Bank
and Franciscan OFM alleging that these organizations acted as a conduit
not only for war criminals to escape justice but for the flow of hundreds
of million of dollars in loot and gold taken by the Croatian Nazis during
their reign of terror 1941-1945 from Serbs, Jews, Roma, and others. The
lawsuit alleges the renegade Croatian Franciscans engaged in far-ranging
crimes including genocide, funding the reestablishment of the Croatian
Nazi movement in South America in the 1950's, and setting up a false
religious shrine in Medjugorgje, Bosnia in 1981 to bilk pilgrims of funds.
The funds
from Medjugorje were then combined with the remnants of the Croatian Nazi
Treasury to fund a second round of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kraijina
in the 1990's.
For more information on Medjugorje see: http://www.double-cross.com
For more information about the lawsuit see:
http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com
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