The Law of War

According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center (citing the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust),
"Ustasa terrorists killed 500,000 Serbs, expelled 250,000 and forced 250,000 to convert
to Roman Catholicism. They murdered thousands of Jews and Gypsies."
Jasenovac was a complex of five subcamps and three smaller camps spread out over
240 square kilometers (93 sq mi), in relatively close proximity to each other, on the bank
of the Sava river. Most of the camp was at Jasenovac, about 100 km (62 mi) southeast
of Zagreb. The complex also included large grounds at Donja Gradina directly across
the Sava River, a camp for children at Jastrebarsko to the northwest, and a women's
camp in Stara Gradiška to the southeast.
An escape attempt on 22 April 1945 by 600 male inmates failed and only 84 male
prisoners escaped successfully. The remainder and about 400 other prisoners were
then murdered by Ustasa guards, despite the fact that they knew the war was ending
with Germany's capitulation. All the female inmates from the women's camp (more than
700) had been massacred by the guards the previous day. The guards then destroyed
the camp and everything associated with it was burned to the ground.
Ante Pavelić, leader of the Ustasha, fled to Argentina and Spain which gave him
protection, and was never extradited to stand trial for his war crimes. Pavelić died on 28
December 1959 at the Hospital Alemán in Madrid, where the Roman Catholic church
had helped him to gain asylum, at the age of 70 from gunshot wounds sustained in an
earlier assassination attempt by Montenegrin Blagoje Jovović.
Crimes Perpetrated by The Ukrainians
The Ukrainian OUN-B group, along with their military force – Ukrainian Insurgent
Army(UPA) – are responsible for a genocide on the Polish population in Volhynia and
Eastern Galicia. Starting in March 1943, with its peak in the summer 1943, as many as
130,000 people (according to Ewa Siemaszko) were murdered, mostly women, children
and elderly. Although the main target were Poles, many Jews, Czechs and
those Ukrainians unwilling to participate in the crimes, were massacred as well. Lacking
good armament and ammunition, UPA members commonly used tools such as axes
and pitchforks for the slaughter. As a result of these massacres, almost the entire non-
Ukrainian population of Volhynia was either killed or forced to flee.
UPA commanders responsible for the genocide:
Roman Shukhevych - general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. As a leader of the
UPA he was to be aware and to approve the project of ethnic cleansing
in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Dmytro Klyachkivsky - colonel of the UPA. He gave the order "to wipe out an
entire polish male population between 16 and 60 years old". Klyachkivsky is
regarded as the main initiator of the massacres.
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