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74. “Deklaracija svesrpskog crkveno narodnog sabora, Beograd, 9–11 June
1998,” Nasˇa Borba, 14 June 1998.
75. See “Remarks by the Bishop Artemije,” in Current Issues (Washington,
DC: United States Institute of Peace, 15 September 1998). See also Pravoslavna
eparhija raskoprizrenska (Orthodox Diocese Rasˇka Prizren) at http://decani.yunet
.com.
76. According to a report from Eisenstadt (Austria) released by the Croatian
Catholic news agency IKA, 27 November 1995.
77. Steven M. Riskin, ed. “Three Dimensions of Peacebuilding in Bosnia:
Findings from the U.S. Institute of Peace Sponsored Research and Field Projects,”
Peaceworks 32 (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, December 1999,
p. 41.
78. International Crisis Group Crisis Web, “Latest Reports,” at http://www.
crisisweb.org
79. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, South Slavic Service, 28 December 1999.
80. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 26 December 1990.
81. Quoted from BBC News: Europe, 29 November 1999; available from http:
//news.bbc.co.uk/hi.english/world/europe. In a similar vein, the Croatian sociologist
Srdjan Vrcan accused religious leaders of issuing “abstract” pronouncements
and conventional calls for peace without a real desire to contribute to it.
See Srdjan Vrcan, “Religion and Churches and the Post-Yugoslav War,” in Religion
and Nationalism, ed. John Coleman and Tomka Mikols (London: SCM Press,
1995).
82. Pravoslavlje, nos. 801–802, 1–15 August 2000.
83. Feral Tribune, no. 794, 2 December 2000.
11. The Twilight of Balkan Idols
1. See Ivo Banac’s preface to The National Question in Yugoslavia.
2. “Gli Stati-Mafia: Criminalità e potere a cavallo dell’ Adriatico—I pericoli per
L’ Italia.” LIMES—Quaderno Speciale, May 2000. States designated as “criminal”
are the Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro), Tudjman’s Croatia, and Albania, including
the Albanian nationalist organizations in Kosovo.
3. Ustav Republike Hrvatske, 9th ed., (Zagreb: Informator, 1995), pp. 3–4.
4. According to a foreign observer, “it has been estimated that, during the
years the HDZ has been in power, 3,000 monuments of the national liberation
movement have been demolished in Croatia—500 in Dalmatia alone.” Jill A.
Irvine, “Ultranationalist Ideology and State-Building in Croatia, 1990–1996,”
Problems of Post-Communism 44, 4 (July–August 1997), p. 35.
5. See Victor Ivančić’s column in Feral Tribune, No. 840, October 20, 2001.
6. Jutarnji list, 9 May 1998.
7. Slobodna Dalmacija, 9–10 July 1999.
8. See for example, Mirko Valentić, ed., Spomenica povodom 50-te obljetnice
Bleiburga i krizˇnog puta 1945–1995 (A recollection on the occasion of the fiftieth
anniversary of Bleiburg and the way of the cross 1945–1955) (Zagreb: Quo vadis,
1995).
9. See Z ˇ erjavić, Opsesije i megalomanije oko Jasenovca i Blajburga.
10. Voice of America, Croatian Service, 22 October 1999.
11. According to the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999
(Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, Bureau for Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor, 9 September 1999), in the section on Croatia, “while there is
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