Posted by Libertas on February 13, 2006, 9:47 am, in reply to "Re: Croatian Mythology" I inherited my property from my father and I am proud of where I am from and where I live. And if you are really interested, a half Serb is living in my house and I have taken my case to court and after 3 years, your half Serb is claiming my house as hers and she is using my land. So, take a hike. And finally. It's easy to be a Croatian outside Croatia, I've got the balls to be Croatian in Croatia. What about you? Easy for you to claim your Serbo roots outside Serbia, but would you be as big as a Serb in today's Serbia as you are outside of it? Don't bother responding, I just enjoy all the beauty my Croatian culture and heritage has to offer me here in Croatia, and the feeling? Like no other. Lijepa Nasa Domovino..... Bog I Hrvati! Za Dom Spremni! L I B E R T A S --Previous Message--
Why do you assume incorrectly that I took over a 'Serbian property'? In fact I am disgusted and furious that you can make such a frivolous claim! Get your facts right first sunshine. You do not see me making judgements like that.
: Oh please. Why in God's name would you move
: from such a beautiful country like Australia
: and relocate in Croatia?
:
: Did you take possession of a property once
: owned by Serbs? Not good. Bog i Hrvati?
: Strange bedfellows mate. Strange indeed.
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: The 1995 "Law on the Temporary
: Take-Over and Administration of Certain
: Property"
:
: On August 31, 1995, the Croatian government
: issued a "Decree on the Temporary
: Take-Over and Administration of Certain
: Property."106 The decree -- published
: on September 4, 1995, and adopted into law
: by the Croatian parliament on September 27,
: 1995107 -- effectively placed most
: Serbian-owned property and possessions in
: Croatia under Croatian government control.
: This included land, buildings used for
: domiciles and businesses, cattle and other
: farm animals, and farming equipment. The law
: targets: a) all property
: "abandoned" by displaced persons
: from the Krajina and western Slavonia areas;
: b) property owned but "abandoned"
: by individuals who left Croatia since August
: 17, 1990 (the day the Serbian rebellion in
: Croatia began); c) property owned but
: "not used" by individuals residing
: in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)
: and Serbian-controlled areas of eastern
: Slavonia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, and d)
: property owned but "not used" by
: citizens of the FRY. Only Serbs who remained
: in Croatian government-controlled areas
: throughout the entire war and hold title to
: their property are not affected by the
: decree.
:
: Although the law states that the
: expropriation of the Serbs' property is
: "temporary," it does not specify
: the duration of the government's control
: over such property. The law allows for
: appeal of a decision to confiscate property
: before the Ministry of Justice, but the
: submission of an appeal does not prevent the
: expropriation. The law allows expropriated
: property to be allocated for use by
: refugees, displaced persons, disabled
: veterans, families of those killed or
: disappeared during the war, and persons who
: performed duties "necessary for the
: security, reconstruction and development of
: the formerly occupied territories," but
: it does not grant ownership of the property
: to the designated occupants. Only Croatian
: government agencies or entities retain
: "ownership" of such property.
:
: The law contains misleading language in that
: it claims to expropriate property belonging
: to persons who "abandoned" their
: property. Most of the Krajina Serbs fled
: their homes because of the fighting, fearing
: for their lives. According to the original
: August 31, 1995, decree, those who returned
: to Croatia within thirty days after the
: decree took effect (i.e., before October 5,
: 1995) could claim title to their property
: and have it restored to them. When the
: decree was adopted into law on September 27,
: 1995, the period of time in which Serbs
: could claim ownership of their property was
: extended from thirty to ninety days from the
: law's initial adoption (i.e., until December
: 27, 1995). Thereafter, if the property was
: not claimed, a special law was to regulate
: ownership of the property in question.
: However, thousands of Serbs who have applied
: for return to Croatia at the Croatian
: liaison office in Belgrade or the Croatian
: embassy in Budapest have faced unnecessary
: bureaucratic obstacles and delays regarding
: receipt of Croatian citizenship papers, or
: their entry into Croatia has been obstructed
: by Croatian authorities at the
: Croatian-Hungarian border. Under these
: circumstances, it is unrealistic to expect
: Serbs from Krajina to return to their homes
: in Croatia even within ninety days.
:
: Article 1 of the law states that the
: aforementioned property is being placed
: under Croatian government control "in
: order to protect and secure the creditor's
: claims to the property." Although part
: of the property used by Serbs in Krajina had
: earlier belonged to Croats who had been
: expelled from the region and should, indeed,
: be returned to its rightful owner(s), much
: of the property in Krajina legally belonged
: to Serbs. Moreover, the Croatian
: government's stated interest in securing the
: Serbian owners' property claims is further
: called into question in light of its tacit
: condoning of the burning and destruction of
: Serbian property throughout Krajina since
: its recapture by Croatian forces in early
: August 1995.
:
: The effect of the law is thus to revoke a
: person's right to ownership, and effectively
: confiscate his or her property, without due
: process. It effectively punishes all Serbs
: who remained in "enemy" territory
: during the war --not through individual
: proof of a crime in court, but through an
: administrative measure that amounts to
: collective punishment.
:
: Similar due process problems arise even as
: the law relates to property owned by current
: citizens of the FRY. Some of this property
: had been allocated to them because of their
: membership in the Yugoslav People's Army
: (Jugoslavenska Narodna Armija or JNA) or the
: communist party or state organs. Insofar as
: this is the case, an impartial legal body
: should determine ownership of
: "public" property whose specific
: ownership is in dispute.108 However, in some
: cases, FRY citizens legitimately purchased
: and hold legal title to property in Croatia
: which should either be recognized or its
: expropriation compensated.
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