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Assassinator James Cappau Was Tito's Son
The Vecernji list (Croatia) digs into the assignation of the Croatian mobster and "king of the poker slot machines" Vjeko Slisko, but discovers a lot more about his assassin, James Cappau. Cappau, according to his mother, was the son of Josip Broz Tito, the former Yugoslav president. The investigation uncovered documents linking Cappeau with arms smuggling to ultranationalist groups in France and Chechnya and the sale of a satellite phone for Dzohar Dudaev, the Chechen leader. (A Russian spy satellite intercepted a call from the phone and killed Dudaev.)
Tags: organized crime; arms trade; assassination; Croatia
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The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia
ARTnews reports on artworks looted from Holocaust victims by the Nazis. Many of the pieces ended up in Yugoslavia, after a "Yugoslav art thief forger and probable spy Ante Topic Mimara ... tricked American art restitution officers into turning over 166 artworks to him in 1949 by falsely claiming that the Nazis had stolen them from Yugoslavia." The duped Americans later searched for the artworks, never found them and covered up the incident, the story reveals. ARTnews has located some the pieces in museums in Serbia and Croatia. The investigation includes photographs of the artworks.
Tags: Nazis; artworks; Soviet Union; National Gallery of Art; Milosevic regime; World War II; Belgrade; Zagreb; paintings
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Defending the indefensible
The New York Times Magazine chronciles the story of a Serb accused of establishing concentration camps in Bosnia. The situation presents a test for his lawyers, for the international tribunal at The Hague -- and for the post-cold-car world.
Tags: Genocide Croatia Muslim
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This article reveals secrets of the Clinton Administration involving the creation of an Iranian arms smuggling pipeline into Bosnia. The President approved the pipeline and violated a United Nations arms embargo that the United States had pledged to uphold. (Apr. 5, 1996)
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Rights and Wrongs features an extended excerpt from "The Yellow Wasps," a documentary film directed by Ilan Ziv and produced by Rory O'Connor. It tells the story of Serbian paramilitary groups killing Muslims as a means of ethnic cleansing in the town of Zvornik. Because the Muslims had no organized army in Zvornik the Yellow Wasps had free reign to do as they pleased. (May, June 1995)
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Mercy or money?
"... a year-long Turning Point investigation that uncovered and documented the activities of an American war profiteer operating in Bosnia. (The) investigation focussed on Lynne Robustelli, the president of a California-based charity, who claimed she could evacuate desperate residents trapped in the war zone. By zeroing in on the weaknesses of the United Nations, Robustelli exploited the organization to her own advantage -- and profit."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT Croatia; Sarajevo; fraud; charity The Resolve Foundation medivac UNHCR