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<strong>SNV</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> <strong>#10</strong> / 132<br />
has done, quickly and radically”. Furthermore, newspaper 7Dnevno regularly<br />
publishes discriminatory content in which it rehabilitates Ustasha<br />
and the ndh regime. In one of the articles published on February 19,<br />
Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić was called a “patriot”, while the Ustasha<br />
movement was described as “freedom-loving and ecumenical”.<br />
Glas koncila, a Roman Catholic weekly issued by the Zagreb Archdiocese,<br />
ran a supplement in several instalments which tried to prove that<br />
only several hundred people had died in Jasenovac, mainly from various<br />
illnesses. It called for a removal of the monument in Srb and wrote that<br />
all those who disagreed with the Catholic Church’s assessments of<br />
Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac were “anti-Croats”. 30<br />
As for the commercial mainstream dailies, the greatest number of discriminatory<br />
articles were found in Večernji list (whose editorial policies<br />
are close to the right wing and the Catholic Church), in the columns<br />
by Milan Ivkošić. In early March he published an article titled By saving<br />
Pupovac from prison, Tuđman showed that no one is perfect. In October<br />
Večernji list published an article entitled Once we set up the ‘Croatian<br />
Pits’ company, will the number of Serbs in those pits play a role in discussions<br />
about forming the government?<br />
30 Hrvoje Šimičević,<br />
Novosti: Gnjus Koncila<br />
(a derogatory pun on<br />
the name of the Roman<br />
Catholic weekly Glas<br />
Koncila), http://www.<br />
portalnovosti.com/<br />
gnjus-koncila<br />
/1.4 Social networks<br />
Social networks, primarily Facebook, were used as the largest platform<br />
for transmitting most of registered threats and hate speech in 2016.<br />
For example, actor Božidar Alić published in January two short video<br />
clips showing his attempts to persuade his underage son to shout the<br />
Ustasha salute “For homeland ready”. The video was viewed 40,000<br />
times. Next, journalist Velimir Bujanec threatened the government on<br />
Facebook: “I promise you: if you replace Hasanbegović (culture minister)<br />
with Pupovac, the media and the war veterans will give you hell!”<br />
Facebook is also often used to distribute pictures of Ustasha flags and<br />
insignia, local celebrations commemorating the ndh or participation<br />
in rallies wearing Nazi uniforms. 31 Media reported that singer Marko<br />
Perković Thompson took part in a religious round table in a primary<br />
school in Šibenik on April 16. During the event they played his song<br />
Bojna Čavoglave which contains the Ustasha salute “For the Homeland<br />
Ready”. 32 All of this was posted on Thompson’s Facebook page. Radical<br />
right-wing political parties (a-hsp, hčsp, hsp 1861) and war veterans’<br />
organisations (Croatian Defence Forces, IX hos Battalion Rafael Vitez<br />
Boban) frequently used Facebook to spread hate speech on their profiles.<br />
There were other pages with similar content including: “For the<br />
Homeland Ready”, “Black Legion”, “Some of us are still ready for the<br />
homeland”, “Association Urban Right”, “I admit, I am Croat!”, “Inde-<br />
31 Drago Pilsel, Jutarnji<br />
list: Neo-Ustasha<br />
provocation. A local<br />
politician filmed a<br />
group of people dressed<br />
in black on the ranch<br />
named “For the homeland,<br />
ready”, http://www.<br />
jutarnji.hr/vijesti/<br />
hrvatska/neoustaskaprovokacija-lokalnipoliticar-snimao-ekipuu-crnom-na-rancu-zadom-spremni/4485728/<br />
32 Index.hr: Thompson<br />
gives lecture to pupils to<br />
the tune of Čavoglave<br />
and the salute For the<br />
homeland, ready, http://<br />
www.index.hr/vijesti/<br />
clanak/thompsonodrzao-predavanjeskolarcima-uzcavoglave-i-pozdravza-dom-spremni/<br />
887702.aspx
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