Kosovars fear that more weapons are entering Kosovo
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Croatia. Jasenovac was in fact a complex of several subcamps, in close
proximity to each other, on bank of the Sava River, about 63 miles
(100km) south of Zagreb. The women's camp of Stara Gradiska, which
was farther away, also belonged to the complex.
Jasenovac was established in August 1941 and was dismantled only
in April 1945. The creation of the camp and its management and
supervision were entrusted to Department II of the Croatian Security
Police (Ustaska Narodna Sluzba, UNS), headed by Vjekoslav (Maks)
Luburic, who was personally responsible for everything that happened
there. Scores of Ustase (Croatian fascists) served in the camp. The
cruelest was former priest Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic, who killed
scores of prisoners with his own hands.
Some six hundred thousand people were murdered at Jasenovac, mostly
Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and opponents of the ustasa regime. The number
of Jewish victims was between twenty and twenty-five thousand, most of
whom were murdered there up to August 1942, when deportation of the
Croatian Jews to Auschwitz for extermination began. Jews were sent to
Jasenovac from all parts of Croatia - from Zagreb, from Sarajevo, and
from other cities and smaller towns. On their arrival most were killed
at execution sites near the camp: Granik, Gradina, and other places.
Those kept alive were mostly skilled at needed professions and trades
(doctors, pharmacists, electricians, shoemakers, goldsmiths, and so on