THE REPUBLIC OF THE SERBIAN KRAJINA
GOVERNMENT IN EXILE 11.080 Zemun, Magistarski Trg 3. Tel/fax 3077-028, [EMAIL PROTECTED] com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No. 519/08 – January 8th 2008. Mr. Alfred Gusenbauer Chancellor of the Republic of Austria Wienna (Embassy of Austria , Belgrade ) Mr. Gusenbauer, Your New Year statement that the Republic of Austria will be among the first countries to recognize the forceful secession of a part of the territory of the sovereign Republic of Serbia – Kosovo & Metohia, resounds painfully in the hearts of all Serbs. You have stated that your Government will give support to the secessionist Shiptar authorities in Kosovo & Metohia, but you have not mentioned the fact that doing this you have intimated the bringing into effect the 1941 decision of your compatriot – Adolph Hitler. I must remind you of the fact that the chancellor of the Nazi Germany, during the occupation of Serbia in 1941, seized Kosovo & Metohia and established the authorities of the Shiptar minority there, with the intention to give away this holy Serbian land as a present to the neighboring Albania . It is very strange, Mr. Gusenbauer, that you have forgotten that Austria is obliged to prevent any aspect of the Nazi policies and ideas within the Republic of Austria, in the same way as it is the obligation of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. With the intention of the Government of the Republic of Austria to recognize the raping of the territory of the Republic of Serbia, all norms of the Peace Agreement signed after the victory of the Allies over the Nazi and fascist countries in the World War II are violated, for you bring into effect one of the most inhuman decisions made by Adolph Hitler in 1941. As a result of that decision the German Army, together with the Shiptar paramilitary forces, expelled hundreds of thousands Serbs from Kosovo & Metohia. The same thing was repeated by the NATO forces in 1999 – again together with the Shiptar paramilitary forces. Mr. Gusenbauer, I have to remind you of one more incomprehensible view of Austria regarding the Serbian people, the view which compromises your country causing a historical (everlasting) harm. I have in mind the fact that Austria supported the Government of the Republic of Croatia to expel 80 per cent of the Serbs from the Republic of the Serbian Krajina (UNPAs) and from Croatian towns in the 1990-1995 period. Since European countries did not want to establish precisely the proportions of this crime, the Government of the Republic of Serbian Krayina estimates that between 500 and 800 thousand of the Serbs were expelled by the Croatian Army to Serbia and other countries. Your government gave absolute support to Croatia and helped it either to destroy or to appropriate all the properties of the expelled Serbs. Today the expelled Serbs cannot get back their properties in the Republic of the Serbian Krayina and in the Republic of Croatia , for these properties are disposed of by the Croatian authorities – ignoring the holy rule of inviolability of the private properties (the rule which is an achievement of the European civilization). This rule, as you should know, was for the first time violated by your compatriot Adolph Hitler, who dispossessed the Jews of all their properties in the Nazi Germany, having made up his mind to biologically exterminate the Jews. As you certainly know, the same measure was put into use by Hitler’s puppet Independent State of Croatia in the 1941-1945 period, establishing death camps for the Serbs, Jews, and Roma. Mr. Gusenbauer, When I said that such policy of your Government would cause historical harm to Austria , I had in mind the fact regarding the position and role of the Serbs in the Austrian Empire from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. I will remind you of the fact that in the multinational Austrian Empire the Serbian people was the only one with its own authorities: local administration, courts, and military organization. All these things were specified by the Serbian Constitution of 1630, which was signed by Ferdinand II. In that time the Serbs were called Illyrians or Vlachs by the Austrians, and this is why that Constitution was known as Statuta Valachorum. You probably know that in that time the Serbs had their autonomy in the Military Krayina, that they did not pay taxes and that they themselves organized and financed the Krayina Army, which defended the Austrian borders in the East against the Turks, and in the West – against France and the German states. Mr. Gurenbauer, If the Serbs played such an important role in the history of your country (the role which has not been properly explored in history, law, international policy and in other social sciences), then your statesmanlike duty is to evaluate the developments in the Serbian lands in a wise manner, and to make your decisions in the spirit of the UN Charter on the Rights of Man, as well as in the spirit of other documents of the international law and the interests of your country – both the actual and the historic ones. Among other things, Mr. Gusenbauer, you should know that successor states of the Nazi and fascist countries: Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Italy, the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, and the Moslem-Croatian Federation within Bosnia and Herzegovina have not made amends for the war damages and for the above mentioned persecution and murder of over one million Serbs, and tens of thousands of the Roma and Jews in Yugoslavia during the World War II. Respectfully yours, The Government of the Republic of the SR of Krayina Milorad Buha, Prime Minister Also sent to: - The Embassy of the Russian Federation - The USA Embassy - The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany - The UK Embassy - The Embassy of France - The Embassy of the People’s Republic of Chine
