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Historic Revisionism, Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in 2016<br />
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sentatives of the extreme political right including the then president of<br />
hsp as, Pero Ćorić and Ivan Tepeš, MPs Željko Glasnović and Miro Bulj<br />
and president of the Zadar hdz branch, Joso Nekić. Journalist Velimir<br />
Bujanec and the president of the a-hsp party, Dražen Keleminec, were<br />
also present. But it was Culture Minister Hasanbegović who stole the<br />
highlights by taking a picture of himself with four men holding an Ustasha<br />
flag with the inscription “FrankfUrt”, where the letter “U” was a<br />
symbol of the Ustasha movement.<br />
/1.5.8. Celebration of the anniversary of Operation Storm in Knin<br />
Celebration of the Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day in Knin<br />
on August 5 was an occasion to display a number of Ustasha insignia,<br />
block the main street and sing Ustasha songs such as Here is the dawn,<br />
here is the day 36 and Thick fog has descended 37 . Also, after intoning the<br />
national anthem, placing the wreaths and praying before the monument<br />
dedicated to Operation Storm, Ivica Glavota, a representative of<br />
war veterans, held a speech in which he said: “I apologize to you people<br />
that we did not finish the job and that you now have to put up with shit<br />
in this country”. But what really grabbed the public attention was the<br />
news that a group of young women and men had torched the flag of<br />
the Republic of Serbia. 38<br />
/1.5.9. Activity of Croatian National Ethics Tribunal<br />
The Croatian National Ethics Tribunal continued with its public gatherings<br />
in 2016. This association is a gathering of conservative former<br />
politicians, historians and war veterans who every few months make a<br />
list of “enemies of Croatia” (members of the national minorities, liberal<br />
ngos, George Soros etc).<br />
On March 5, which was the 19 th anniversary of the establishment of the<br />
sdss party, the Tribunal held a meeting in Vukovar and passed an “ethical<br />
verdict” against Vojislav Stanimirović, the sdss president, based on<br />
“a well-founded suspicion that he had committed many criminal acts<br />
during the Homeland War”. The State Prosecution had repeatedly processed<br />
and rejected such accusations in the past.<br />
On September 18, the Tribunal’s agenda focused on Milorad Pupovac,<br />
who had already been “condemned” tree years earlier. “Astonished by<br />
his recent increasingly aggressive anti-Croatian behaviour” after the<br />
early parliamentary election, the Tribunal this time condemned his “aggressive<br />
greater-Serbian behaviour”, declared him a persona non grata<br />
36 Here comes the<br />
dawn, here come Jure<br />
and Boban/Jure calls,<br />
Boban shouts, here<br />
I am, commander!<br />
/ Your battalion is<br />
guarding Lika, Pearl of<br />
the country, our pride/<br />
When he crossed the<br />
Drina river, He was<br />
wounded in the leg /<br />
He does not yell: the<br />
woe is me, but cheers<br />
For the Homeland,<br />
ready!<br />
37 Thick fog<br />
descended on Zagreb<br />
/ It was not thick fog<br />
above Zagreb / But<br />
the Commander’s<br />
brave army / The<br />
Commander gave<br />
them the name brave<br />
Ustashas / It is the<br />
army that defends our<br />
homes<br />
38 Index.hr: New<br />
disgrace in Knin. Serb<br />
flag set on fire to the<br />
sound of a Thompson<br />
song, http://www.<br />
index.hr/vijesti/<br />
clanak/ekskluzivnivideo-nova-sramotau-kninu-uz-taktovethompsonovepjesmezapaljena-srpskazastava/910866.aspx
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