On Aug. 6 your editorial stated that ”chilling reports that Serbs are torturing and executing Bosnian Muslims and Croats in detention centers must be taken seriously.” You also questioned: ”Are Nazi-era death camps reprised in Bosnia?” The answer is yes.
However, this is nothing new in Yugoslavia. From 1944 to 1948, the most grisly acts of massacre and starvation were carried out against all ethnic Germans when Marshall Tito`s government took over the country. These ethnic German victims were citizens of Yugoslavia. More than a half-million people, who had lived peacefully in their towns for more than 200 years, were driven out of their homes like cattle. Almost all young men ages 15 to 50 and young women ages 16 to 30 were shipped off to Russia to work in coal mines as slave laborers. The remaining German population, now consisting mostly of women, children and old people, were put into death camps.
I was a prisoner in Tito`s death camps from ages 4 to 7 I know from experience that the camps existed, having lost two cousins and two
grandparents in them. For three years my childhood was taken from me. But at least I survived.
Please, take the rumors seriously. It has happened before, so it is probably true.
