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	The Medak Pocket
		His decision to insert the well armed Canadian battlegroup into the Medak Pocket as a formed manoeuvre force, instead of stringing them out in isolated observation posts, was part of his overall policy of enforcing international agreements and restoring UN credibility.
		For the soldiers involved in the Medak Pocket operation the next few days were the most difficult They were tasked, along with civilian police officers, and UN medical officers, to sweep the area for signs of ethnic cleansing.
		The Medak Pocket provided the world with the first hard evidence that Serbia was not the sole perpetrator of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, deconstructing the myth that the Yugoslav wars could all be neatly labelled as Serbian wars of aggression and expansion.
	www.cda-cdai.ca /library/medakpocket.htm (6449 words)

	Operation Medak pocket -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The pocket - or ((military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy) salient, to use the military term - was surrounded from three sides by the Croatian army forces prior to the operation.
		The Croatians were left in control of much of the Medak pocket, an area mostly populated by Serbs.
		The Medak Pocket affair was widely publicized, caused an international outcry and badly dented Croatia's international reputation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/op/operation_medak_pocket.htm (1441 words)

	operation medak pocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The pocket - or salient, to use the military term - was surrounded from three sides by the Croatian army forces prior to the operation.
		The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia later established that an estimated 164 homes and 148 barns and outbuildings were pillaged and subsequently destroyed during the cease-fire before the withdrawal.
		The Medak Pocket affair was widely publicised, caused an international outcry and badly dented Croatia's international reputation.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /operation_medak_pocket.html (565 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War: Books: Carol Off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In September Croatian forces took the Medak Pocket, a bump in the Serbian held South UN Protected Area.
		In the few days the Croatians were in the Medak Pocket, they did, as the Patricias discovered, a pretty thorough job.
		I appreciated the background on the region, the course of the events that lead to the Medak Pocket.
	www.amazon.ca /Ghosts-Medak-Pocket-Canadas-Secret/dp/0679312943 (3583 words)

	Operation Medak pocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Operation Medak Pocket (Croatian : Medački džep) was a military operation undertaken by Croatian army between September 9 — September 17 1993 in which the small area around village of Medak in the south-central Lika region of Croatia then under the of the rebel Republic of Serbian Krajina was invaded by Croatian forces.
		The pocket - or salient to use the military term - surrounded from three sides by the Croatian forces prior to the operation.
		The Medak Pocket affair was widely publicised an international outcry and badly dented Croatia's reputation.
	www.freeglossary.com /Operation_Medak_pocket (844 words)

	ANNEX2
		He was one of the mercenaries in the Croatian Army who committed war crimes against the Serb civilians and the wounded in the Medak Pocket.
		Towards the end of 1991 he was hired as a mercenary in the Croatian Army and stationed in Perušić.
		He was one of the perpetrators of war crimes against the Serb civilians and the wounded in the Medak Pocket.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /documents/reports/4-a.htm (2263 words)

	Janko Bobetko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		But, in the events known as the "Croatian Spring", Bobetko, who sided with the reformist Croatian Communist leaders, was demoted and expelled from Yugoslav Army after Tito's crackdown on Croatian leadership.
		In 1993, during the Medak pocket military operation against the Krajina Serbs, the Croatian soldiers reportedly committed crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war, and the ICTY subsequently indicted Bobetko as the supreme commanding officer.
		Bobetko refused to accept the indictment and refused to surrender to the court, indignantly claiming that such an indictment questions the legitimacy of the whole military operation.
	www.wikiverse.org /janko-bobetko (218 words)

	Annex VII : Medak investigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Medak Pocket Operation comprises the military operations of the Republic of Croatia (Croat), United Nations Protection Force (UN or UNPROFOR) and, to a lesser extent, the «Republic of Serbian Krajina» (Serb) forces near Medak, Croatia, in September 1993.
		Croat authorities say that the widespread destruction in the Medak Pocket was necessitated by the Serbs using the civilian homes for barracks and the storage of ammunition.
		A Croat press release said that the level of destruction in the Pocket was required by the Serbs' use of civilian buildings as barracks and for ammunition storage.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/VII.htm (6341 words)

	cbc.ca
		In 1993, members of the Canadian battle group stood their ground as they were attacked near a Serb enclave in an area of Croatia known as the Medak Pocket.
		The Medak Pocket Operation was said to have been the biggest fire fight Canadian troops were involved in since the Korean War.
		Scott Leblanc, who was 18 years old at the time of the Medak battle, said after coming under attack, his first instinct was to take cover; his next was to do the job for which he was trained.
	www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2002/12/01/medak_medals021201 (448 words)

	Ademi - Initial Indictment
		24. The area hereinafter referred to as the Medak Pocket is approximately four to five kilometers wide and five to six kilometers long and consisted of the localities of Divoselo, Citluk and part of Pocitelj and numerous small hamlets.
		The Medak Pocket was situated in such a "pink zone", close to Sector South.
		The villages of the Pocket were completely destroyed, thereby depriving the Serbian civilian population of their homes and livelihood.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/ade-ii010608e.htm (2118 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		The indictment says that during the Medak Pocket operation, "serious violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity were committed, resulting in the deaths of at least 100 Serbs, including 29 civilians and the destruction by fire and explosives of 164 homes."
		And he said the government should at least investigate what actually happened in the Medak Pocket: "I don't think a thorough investigation was done at the time when it happened, although there were UN observers on the spot.
		General Rahim Ademi, indicted in 2001 for his part in the Medak Pocket operation, turned himself in and was released on bail in February.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/09/24092002145714.asp (1540 words)

	Medak pocket slaughter
		In many different aspects the case of Medak pocket slaughter is educational at least for the reason that it happened very early in the conflict before Western media succeeded to satanize one whole people through its "mass rape", "besieged Sarajevo", "concentration camps", "Srebrenica mass graves" and other Big Lie campaigns.
		Medak pocket massacres prove full complicity of the Inter-Nazi-onal Community in the genocide perpetrated on the Serbian people.
		Medak pocket, since February 1992, was to be protected by UNPROFOR (United Nation Protection Force).
	www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/Medak-intro.html (765 words)

	MEDAK
		"MEDAK" is a common misspelling or typo for: Madam, Mead, Medal, Mede, Media, Medial, Medic, Modal.
		"MEDAK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
		"MEDAK" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/MEDAK (364 words)

	Janko BOBETKO IT-02-62
		18. The area hereinafter referred to as the Medak Pocket is approximately four to five kilometers wide and five to six kilometers long and consisted of the localities of Divoselo, Citluk and part of Pocitelj and numerous small hamlets.
		23. The Croatian attack on the Medak Pocket commenced with shelling of the area in the early morning of 9 September 1993.
		The villages of the Pocket were destroyed, thereby depriving the Serbian civilian population of their homes and livelihood.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/bob-ii020826-e.htm (2442 words)

	NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE FUTURE
		General Sekulić analyzed the situation in the Croatian and the Serb armies, including all the stages of the Medak Pocket Operation and the consequences it had for the so-called Srpska Krajina Army and the RSK itself.
		In the village of Medak,, one battle group of the 3rd mobile brigade had been given orders to engage in the forceful reconnaissance… therefore the maximum alert and readiness for the battle had been ordered.” The order was issued on September 3rd 1993.” The Croatian Army and police had been subject to sudden attacks.
		The panicked flee from Medak, the armed scuffles (the evening of September 9th in Medak), desertions on the defence lines, the disintegrating Lapac brigade, was followed by punishment of those guilty for the defeat.
	www.nsf-journal.hr /issues/v3_n3-4/11.htm (6206 words)

	Planning Croatia´s Final Solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Medak is south of Gospic and near Pocitelj, mentioned in the transcript of the meetings.
		On Sept. 9, 1993, the Croatian army had attacked near the town of Medak in the Krajina, an area controlled by Serbs in eastern Croatia.
		In Medak, where Canadians manned an observation post, 525 bombs had landed, and four of Calvin´s soldiers had been wounded.
	www.balkanpeace.org /rs/archive/nov01/rs192.shtml (2004 words)

	Operation Storm
		After Operation Medak pocket in September 1993, when they overran a small area in the mountainous region of Lika but caused an international incident in their retreat, they eventually started pursuing successful military advances against the Krajina Serbs.
		The encroaching of the Serbian-held territory in Croatia and western Bosnia had begun in the mid 1994, with a series of dogged campaigns of the Croatian Army (HV) and Croatian Defense Council (HVO, in Bosnia and Herzegovina).
		The charges related to the Medak pocket include planned mass murder as part of the operation; in "Flash" and "Storm" it's murders and destruction in the aftermath of each operation.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/op/operation_storm.html (874 words)

	Former generals' trial expected to test Croatian judiciary (SETimes.com)
		The case, which involves war crimes allegedly committed during a September 1993 operation in the so-called Medak Pocket, was first investigated by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, but later transferred to the Croatian judiciary.
		According to the indictment, "the Medak Pocket became uninhabitable" as a result of the operation.
		By virtue of their ranks, Ademi and Norac "had the power, authority and responsibility to prevent or punish serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during the Medak Pocket operation," the indictment charges.
	www.balkan-info.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2007/05/09/feature-03 (473 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The prosecutors announced earlier this summer that they would try to have the case of Croatian army commanders Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, who are charged in connection with the Medak Pocket operation in which many Serb civilians were killed and the population driven from their homes, transferred to the region.
		The Medak Pocket was a small rural area of around five square kilometres within the self-proclaimed Republika Srpska Krajina, to the south of the Croatian city of Gospic.
		According to the indictment, most of the buildings in the pocket - including 164 houses and 148 barns - were destroyed by fire and explosives, allegedly between the announcement of the ceasefire and the troops’ withdrawal two days later.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/tri/tri_372_3_eng.txt (993 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Perhaps the closest the Canadians came to war, or battle, was in the Croatian invasion of the Medak Pocket in the Serb-held Krajian area of Croatia in the fall of 1993.
		From the outset, the town of Medak was the primary target for the Croat gunners.
		The gaggle of wounded soldiers and fleeing refugees along the main road in Medak was replaced by determined Serb reinforcements pushing forward into the pocket.
	www.suc.org /news/world_articles/Toronto_Sun.html (2269 words)

	Rahim Ademi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Hague court indicted Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac for crimes against humanity for the September 1993 attack on ethnic Serbs in the Medak Pocket in...
		In 1993 he was assigned to the post of the subcommander of the Gospić military district, but was relieved of duty later in the year, after the infamous Medak pocket operation.
		Ademi later served as a subcommander of the Split military district and was promoted to brigadier general for his achievements in Operation Storm in 1995.
	www.wikiverse.org /rahim-ademi (441 words)

	The Ghosts of Medak Pocket
		Then the Canadian forces were able to push their way through to try and get in to the Medak pocket and try and save the lives of the people they hoped were still alive at that point.
		Carol Off: When they got in to the Medak pocket, they've been sort of sitting on the side lines for many days watching and listening to this ethnic cleansing going on, and they wanted to go in there and take charge.
		By the time they got in to Medak and found that all these civilians had been not just killed but tortured and mutilated, they felt this personal sense of failure that they couldn't overcome when they came back to Canada.
	www.army.dnd.ca /lfwa/transcript_CBC_Carol_Off.htm (783 words)

	NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE FUTURE
		After the sudden - and for the Krajina Serbs, their army, UNPROFOR and the international community - unexpected success of the Croatian Army and police in executing the occupied area liberation of the Maslenica Operation, a change in the military and political leadership of the so-called “Republika Srpska Krajina” (RSK) behaviour was expected.
		Such was the one committed in Podlapača as revenge for the Medak Pocket’s defeat.
		Using heavy artillery, the air force and surface-to-surface missiles combined with small-scale terrorist attacks, the Serbs intention was to create an overpowering effect and for their forces to achieve constant battle readiness and alertness.
	www.nsf-journal.hr /issues/v3_n3-4/06.htm (3299 words)

	MPs listen in awe to story of battle: The Vancouver Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		MPs listened in silence Monday as a colonel recounted the story of the Canadian army's biggest firefight since Korea, the 1993 Battle of the Medak pocket, that left troops picking up 16 corpses of murdered civilians and nursing their own wounds.
		Jim Calvin told politicians yesterday the story of the operation at Medak Pocket, where Canadian soldiers were involved in a 15-hour firefight, and, later, a tense standoff with heavily-armed Croatian troops.
		Calvin received the meritorious service cross for his role in the Medak Pocket operation; the Princess Pats were handed the force commander's unit commendation by Gen. Cot, one of only three awarded during the long peacekeeping mission to the former Yugoslavia.
	www.balkanpeace.org /wcs/wct/wctu/wctu01.shtml (2116 words)

	Legion Magazine : Legion Magazine : Defence Today
		The most dangerous and dramatic episode in that chapter was the 1993 Medak Pocket incident, in which Canadian soldiers, trying to keep warring sides separated, themselves came under attack.
		At the same time as this artillery barrage, the Croats launched their attack to seize the pocket, some 25 to 30 square kilometres of terrain, in a pincer movement, with tanks and infantry coming in from the north and special forces from the south.
		In terms of overall casualties in the Medak Pocket, four Canadians were wounded in the initial artillery barrage, and during the next several days seven French soldiers were injured, either when their vehicles hit anti-tank mines or they walked into anti-personnel mines.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/militarymatters/04-11a.asp (12822 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| A little known battle: Firefight at the Medak Pocket, Maclean's, September 4th 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		For the next five days, Bajema watched as the Medak Pocket was attacked by more than 2,500 Croat troops, backed by tanks, rocket launchers and artillery.
		With the Medak attack almost a week old, the international media had converged on the area.
		As negotiations with his bearded counterpart deteriorated, Calvin held a news conference in front of the barricade and bluntly described the atrocities he believed were being committed by the Croatians.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2002/September_03/5.html (1618 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		In her new book, The Ghosts of Medak Pocket, Carol Off tells the story of these men.
		It is a story that assigns blame freely: on the Croats and Serbs who committed horrific atrocities, on the politicians who permitted or in some cases even ordered those atrocities, on the Canadian army that dumped the soldiers when they came back shattered from everything they witnessed and tried to stop it.
		Overall, though, The Ghosts of Medak Pocket is interesting and thought-provoking, a story which so many people conspired, knowingly or unknowingly, to keep hidden.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=1114 (530 words)

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