Showing posts with label Belgrade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belgrade. Show all posts

January 21, 2008

The "Hitler Room" Is Most Popular in Hotel

Don't fool yourselves. It is still our father's Europe. Via ABC News:

Belgrade hotelier Dusan Zabunovic renovated a property opposite Belgrade's central trainstation, with the help of some of the best designers in thecountry. He named the hotel Mr. President and designed each roomaround a current or past world leader. As a member of the Design Hotel chain, Mr. President boasts manyluxurious suites. The most luxurious, on the seventh floor, comes complete with a portrait of former communist leader Josip Broz Tito, who ruled Yugoslavia for more than 35 years. You can enjoy his picture while soaking in your Jacuzzi. In addition to the Bushes, Margaret Thatcher, Fidel Castro and Joseph Stalin, there is also a junior suite named after the infamous Adolf Hitler (Y"S).

The Hitler or room 501, occupied mainly by German, Croat and Slovenian guests, sees the highest demand, according to Zabunovic.But the former Nazi dictator's popularity hasn't gone down well with everyone. The leader of the Jewish community in Belgrade has condemned Zabunovic's marketing ploy as a dangerous "banalization" of the German dictator.

Despite public outrage in Serbia, not much can be done under Serbian law to persuade the hotelier to change his controversialchoices. Like all Serbs who were persecuted alongside Jews and gypsies during the Nazi occupation Zabunovic does not have any kind of admiration for Hitler. But sitting in the lobby of his new hotel surrounded by statues of former U.S. Presidents Lincoln,Washington, Jefferson and Madison, he says he refuses to exclude him.

June 16, 2004

Massive Forced Transfer of Non-Muslims From Kosovo

From IsraelNN.com:
During March of this year, regarding the violence in Kosovo, more than 3,600 Serbs and other non-Albanians have been forced to leave their homes in areas claimed by Albanian Muslims, UNMIK announced yesterday.

Albanian Muslims carried out organized, well-planned violence against non-Muslims in Kosovo, according to a senior Belgrade official, Nebojsa Covic.

According to a report in the Tanjug news agency, Covic told the Belgrade daily Politika on Monday that the "plan of ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks against Serbs has been elaborated well and premeditated andÖ carried out in several phases."

Kosovo governor Harri Holkeri made the same accusation yesterday.

At least 28 people have died and 600 were injured in the Kosovo violence, with many churches and homes in Serb areas burned to the ground.

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