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SNV Bulletin #6 Govor mržnje i nasilje prema Srbima u 2015

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Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in <strong>2015</strong><br />

/ 87<br />

/1.5.3. Activity of Autochthonous Croatian<br />

Party of Rights’ (A-HSP)<br />

/ Dražen Keleminec:<br />

“I am telling Milorad<br />

Pupovac to mark my<br />

words – this is his last<br />

celebration in Srb”<br />

In February <strong>2015</strong>, the A-HSP President Dražen Keleminec, along<br />

with several fellow party members, sang the Ustasha song “Here<br />

comes the dawn, Here comes the Day” (celebrating two Ustasha<br />

military commanders) in front of the Misdemeanour court in<br />

Koprivnica. Police stood in the background and recorded this but<br />

did not apprehend him although he had sung a controversial song<br />

which glorifies Ustasha crimes. Instead, Keleminec was later only<br />

charged for misdemeanour. “The A-HSP is no longer a small party,<br />

it is now nationwide. We will soon have out patriotic forces that<br />

will line up on the Jelačić square”, Keleminec said speaking in<br />

front of the court.<br />

On July 18 members of the A-HSP protested in front of the <strong>SNV</strong>’s<br />

central office in Gajeva street in Zagreb because of a planned<br />

ceremony dedicated to the Croatian People’s Uprising Day in Srb.<br />

On the day of the ceremony Keleminec and other like-minded<br />

protesters gathered on the road beneath the monument. The<br />

Ustasha salute “For the Homeland Ready” was played through

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