SNV Bulletin #10

SNV Bulletin #10 / 138
and stated that they consider any cooperation with him as “an act
of national high treason”.
/1.5.10. Plaque with ustasha salute placed in Jasenovac
In the centre of Jasenovac, close to the location of the 2 Ustasha death
camp, a memorial plaque was unveiled on November 5 with the inscription
which contains “For the homeland ready” Ustasha salute. The
plaque was placed on the façade of a building on King Petar Svačić
square, which had formerly seated the headquarters of the Ustasha
criminal Maks Luburić, to commemorate 11 members of hos who were
killed in this area in the past war. It was placed by the hos veterans
from Jasenovac and the hos Volunteers’ Association form Zagreb.
Along with the names of the killed soldiers, the plaque contains the
unit’s coat-of-arms and the Ustasha salute.
Among the hundred-odd persons present there was the head of Jasenovac
municipality, Marija Mačković, who laid a wreath on behalf
of the municipality and said she saw “nothing controversial” in this.
Prime Minister Andrej Plenković chose to avoid commenting about the
plaque for days. He finally said that it “could be offensive for the victims
of the Jasenovac camp and their families”, but that it was dedicated
to “deceased Croatian veterans”. He also announced that the government
would set up a commission for “all the symbols of totalitarian
regimes” which will “close the issue called facing the past”.
/1.5.11. Presenting Project Velebit
On November 9, a round table was held in the Matica Hrvatska building
(Matica Hrvatska is an association with a long tradition which promotes
Croatian culture) entitled Media Violence and Political Culture in
Croatia. The purpose was to present Project Velebit, a movement which
the extreme right recently established in Zagreb, in cooperation with
Croatian emigres. The main speaker was Marko Jurič, a journalist of extreme
right orientation, who said that they were inspired by “hundreds
of Croatian young men, members of the emigration” who in the 1960s
conducted a campaign of sabotage, including kidnapping, killing and
breaking into embassies across Europe. “They were not soft figures who
would just sit in cafes and distribute leaflets. They were capable people
who knew how to respond. The emigration was waging a war and a very
successful one”, Jurič said. He went on to say that this initiative was the
answer to complaints from a number of citizens that the communists
had taken almost all relevant positions in the society. The aim, he said,