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former chairman of the League of Communists of Croatia and Yugoslavia, said
that 50 percent of the members of the then ruling Croatian Democratic Community
(Tudjman’s HDZ) were former communists, as well as 90 percent of the
members of the liberal nationalist Croatian People’s Party (HND), whereas
50,000 former members of the League of Communists of Croatia had joined the
extreme nationalistic Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). According to S ˇ uvar, from
1945 to 1990 over 650,000 people were registered as members of the Communist
Party/League of Communists of Croatia. In 1992, according to this sociologist
and ex-official, the surviving organization of reformed communists (social democrats)
of Croatia had between 20,000 and 40,000 members who supported
Croatia as a sovereign state and condemned the excesses of Titoism.
4. See Ramet, Balkan Babel, M. A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide
in Bosnia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); Paul Mojzes, ed.,
Religion and the War in Bosnia (Atlanta, GA: Scholar Press, 1998); Rudolph Grulich
and Thomas Bremer, “Die Religionsgemeinschaften im ehemaligen Jugoslawien,”
in Dunja Melčić, ed., Der Jugoslawien-Krieg: Handbuch zu Vorgeschichte, Verlauf
und Konsequenzen (Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999).
5. See M. M. Gorymov, Russkie doborvoltsy v Bosnii, 1992–1995 gg. (Moskva:
Vestnik, 1997); Hashim Hussein, Malaysian Tigers in Bosnia (Kuala Lumpur: Berita,
1996). See also Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations; Ramet, Balkan Babel,
2nd ed., p. 3; Mojzes, Religion and the War in Bosnia; Michael A. Sells, The Bridge
Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia, (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1996).
6. Jović Momir, “Da se Srbi nisu oduprli bili bi zbrisani” (Had the Serbs not
resisted, they would have been annihilated), Jedinstvo No. 39–40 (Prisˇtina, 1995).
7. Jagnje bozˇije i zvijer iz bezdana: filosofija rata, zbirka eseja (The lamb of God
and the beast from the abyss; A philosophy of war; A collection of essays) (Cetinje:
Svetigora, 1996).
8. See Muzej zˇrtava genocide (Museum of victims of genocide), available from
http://beograd.com/jasenovac; see also Serbs and Jews, ROM the Serbian Unity
Congress’s Website available from http://srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Jews.
9. The most influential was the conference entitled “Jasenovac: A System of
Croat Ustasˇa Death Camps,” held in 1997 in New York.
10. See for example, Danon Cadik (the chief rabbi of Yugoslavia) et al., An
Open Letter to the American Jewish Committee, available from http://www.srpska
-mreza.com/library/facts/cadik. A pro-Milosˇević pamphlet was released by,
among others, the Yugoslav legal scholar of Jewish descent, Andrija Gams: The
Truth about “Serbian Anti-Semitism” (Belgrade: Ministry of Information of the
Republic of Serbia, 1994).
11. Duga, no. 1738, 6 May 2000.
12. Vladeta Jerotić, Vera i nacija (Faith and nation), 2nd ed. (Belgrade: Tersit,
1995), p. 52.
13. Karamatić, Znanstveni skup “Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini: uzroci, posljedice,
perspektive,” pp. 83–93.
14. “Srbi su dragovoljni izvrsˇitelji planova Slobodana Milosˇevia” (The Serbs
are Slobodan Milosˇević’s willing executioners), Slobodna Dalmacija, 2 June 1999.
The article cites Daniel J. Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans
and the Holocaust (New York: Knopf, 1996).
15. See, for example, Southeastern Europe 1918–1995: Proceedings of the International
Symposium, Zadar, Croatia, September 1995 (Zagreb: Hrvatski informativni
centar; Hrvatska Matica iseljenika, 1996).
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