Failure to support Croatia’s entry to EU is hypocritical

HAD the International Criminal Court existed in 1922, Michael Collins, Tom Barry, Sean Haughey, Dan Breen and, possibly, Eamon de Valera would almost certainly have been forced to answer to it following the war of independence.

This scenario makes Ireland’s failure to support Croatian entry to the EU, until the arrest of national hero Ante Gotovina, both hypocritical and absurd. The facts are that Croatia tried to leave the Yugoslav federation, which bore a great resemblance to the then United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland (for English dominance, read Serb) in 1991 and that Belgrade sent in the Yugoslav People’s Army (read Black and Tans) to resist this move.

The Serbs raped and pillaged their way across the land until halted at Karlovac. The west delivered only words, not actions, while the ill-equipped Croats stood alone against Slobodan Milosevic’s troops.