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<strong>SNV</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> <strong>#10</strong> / 142<br />
/Hasanbegović with<br />
Croatian diaspora<br />
(photo: Jure Mišković/<br />
cropix)<br />
— Former government minister and current parliament deputy Zlatko<br />
Hasanbegović at a ceremony unveiling a monument to Miro Barešić<br />
(a Croatian independence activist imprisoned on terrorism charges)<br />
in Drage, on July 31, 2016.<br />
“I am always ready for the home and for the homeland (laughter)... It<br />
is true that this had been an Ustasha salute and that it insults some<br />
people. But at the same time, the fact is that it was used by hos in the<br />
Homeland War (the 1991-95 war of independence), that they fought<br />
bravely and did not commit crimes under this slogan... I am for the<br />
home, yes.”<br />
— Parliament member Nikola Grmoja in a video clip filmed by Denis<br />
Šešalj, a hos war veteran, which was broadcast in Bujica tv show<br />
on December 19, 2016.<br />
“The other day I had to say on camera that the man who raised my<br />
mother had been with the Ustasha. So, that’s my grandfather. Two of<br />
his brothers had died while with the Ustasha. They came from Ličko<br />
Lešće (a village in central Croatia), where there had been no partisans.<br />
That’s how my mother was brought up. There, in Srb, some 150 Croats,<br />
Dalmatians, died in 1944 as members of the Split Proletariat Brigade<br />
(partisan unit) because they were liberating this region from the Germans<br />
and the Ustasha, or they were occupying it, I have no idea, I no
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