I approach the Memorial Park Teharje.
The Memorial Park is surrounded by wire fence.
Garbage dump. Manegement: Cinkarna Celje d.d.
It says: To those who died here and to those who were taken to death from here.
Who died here? Who were taken to death from here?
How many people died here? How many people were taken to death from here? How did they die?
Where were they taken to? When?
But the righteous, though they die early, will be at rest - The Wisdom of Solomon 4. I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name ... - Isaia, 56
Who killed them?
Why were they killed?
Where are their graves?
I will rest in peace.
Garbage dump.
You will find no answers in this Memorial Park. No facts - no numbers - no names - no dates. Nothing.
I want to approach the lake but can not because of the wire fence.
There is no sign anywhere telling why it is forbidden to come near the lake.
Wire fence.
Then I notice a hole in the fence, big enough to creep inside.
View of the garbage dump.
View of the lake. I am from Celje so I know why it is forbidden to approach it.
View of the lake with St. Ana church on the hill.
View from the lake of the monument and Celje in the background.
Another view of the lake and St. Ana church. - The lake is artificial and heavily poisonous.
The nearby chemical factory Cinkarna Celje deposited there huge amounts of poisonous waste.
The water is poisonous but ...
... this bird doesn't know it.
It is swimming in the water, alone ...
I don't know what it means ...
The fence is all around but evidently other people have also found the hole in the fence ...
The fence and autumn flowers.
The bird ...
... it will probably die soon.
View of the monument, the garbage dump, and the lake.
Work on the garbage dump.
View of the lake and the monument.
Another view of the lake, the monument and the garbage dump. This place was a Communist concentration camp after the WW II.
Colours of autumn.
The poisonous lake and the garbage dump lie on top of mass graves of the victims of Tito's Communists.
Slovenia (20 273 km2) was in summer 1945 a huge killing field.
St. Ana church.
Somebody put flowers and a candle on the side of the church that looks towards the lake.
View from St. Ana church.
Over 100 000 people were killed in Slovenia in a few weeks after WW II (about 14000 were Slovenians, others were Croats, Germans, Italians ...) . (In Srebrenica 1995 about 8 000 people were killed).
The killings were highly organized.
The victims were brought (from camps) to the killing places by trucks.
The victims were brought near the Karst pits, abondened mineshafts, trenches (which the Germans dug during the war) and shot there.
Before being shot the victims had to undress so that the bodies could not be identified if found.
The bodies were thrown inside these pits and covered with dirt.
In this way it was easy to get rid of the bodies.
Sometimes the victims had to dig their own graves.
The killings took place at night.
The mass graves in Slovenia were taboo for more than 40 years.
The secret police saw to it that nobody asked any questions.
The secret police also saw to it that nobody brought flowers or candles to the mass graves.
From 1990 till now 590 mass graves have been found in Slovenia, scattered all over the country.
Slovenian Karadzics and Mladics (those who are still alive) get extra high pensions for their merits in revolution and building of socialism.
Statues of those communist revolutionaries who died in the time of communism stand untouched in all Slovenian towns. Streets in towns of Slovenia still bear the names of communist "heroes" . In Celje we have for instance Kidric Street , Kraigher Street ... In Lasko they have Kidric Street ...
Father of the Slovenian Prime Minister (from 2004-2008) Janez Jansa managed to escape from a Karst pit (mass grave) in Kocevski Rog. He was 17.
Jansa's father told him about this only in 1988 after Janez Jansa had been released from the military prison.
Flower in autumn. Slovenia.
The victims have not yet been identified.
The Slovenian judiciary is not capable (willing) of identifying those responsible for the unspeakable crimes.
In Celje 2 primary schools were built on mass graves: Osnovna sola Lava and Osnovna sola Frana Rosa in Golovec.
The housing district Lava in Celje was built around mass graves (in German trenches).
Has Slavoj Zizek ever mentioned the mass graves of Slovenia in his famous lectures on the American Universities?
Updated. On 29th January 2009 Slavoj Zizek held a lecture with the title America against Europe - a Cultural Struggle at the Ministry of Culture in Ljubljana. He said among other things that the bolsheviks in 1920 forbade capital punishment. Mass shootings followed. Western liberals began to cry how that could be possible. Trotsky gave them a brilliant answer: These people were not punished. The executions were a preventive act, the disablement of the oposition.
On 3rd March 2009 after 7 months of digging in a mine tunnel (because of so many concrete barriers and waste material) in Lasko near Celje a most horrible site a human being could see was found: a mound of skeletons (probably a few thousand) covered with lime. Sculls broken, bodies naked, wire, mine mattocks ... These victims were slaughtered with mattocks! Some were still alive when they were walled up! Somebody was trying to escape and dug a tunnel above the concrete barriere ...
Before reaching the skeletons and bodies a mound of shoes was found in the Barbara Pit near Lasko.
Till now (20th April) what is known is this: 463 victims have been checked (those lying in the tunnel, the shafts haven't yet been researched). Some were slaughtered with mattocks. But most of them were shot. - The victims had to undress outside the mine tunnel. Then they were forced to walk with hands tied with wire through 600 m long narrow dark tunnel, then they were forced to kneel down and 2 executors shot them in the head. That's why the skulls are broken. Then the bodies were covered with lime and walled up.
I have learned this from one of the researchers of the Barbara pit. Our mainstream media do not inform us about these details.
Communism was never officialy condemned in the Slovenian Parliament. There was no lustration in Slovenia.
The sun is setting.
When George W. Bush was in Slovenia in June 2008 he said: Slovenia is a piece of heaven.
You can see how the statesmen of the glorious 20th century treated Tito, just search Google.
Does Slovenia remind you of Russia?
Updated. On 20th April (Hitler's birthday) 2009 the authorities of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, decided that a new street in Ljubljana be named after Josip Broz Tito. The symbol of Ljubljana is dragon.
St. Rosalia church.
See what The Museum of Recent History Celje shows at: http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/
