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

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opposite the children’s clinic with a coat-of-arms featuring the
checkerboard beginning with the white field. 22 This summer, the
same flag was hung in the centre of Karlovac.
During the past year a petition was launched to introduce the
Ustasha greeting “For the Homeland Ready” into official use in
the Croatian Armed Forces. The organisers, who launched the
petition on the Internet, claim that 3,200 persons have signed
it and among them are Josip Pečarić, auxiliary bishop of Zagreb
Valentin Pozaić, Sisak bishop Vlado Košić, football player Josip
Šimunić, academy member Stanko Popović, the former director
of the Croatian Institute for History, Mirko Valentić, president
of the Croatian national court of ethics, Zvonimir Šeparović,
attorney Zvonimir Hodak, former political émigré Nikola Štedul,
priests Don Anđelko Kaćunko and Franciscan father Miljenko
Stojić, host and editor of the Bujica TV show, Velimir Bujanec
and others. President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović condemned the
petition only after pressure from the public.
On December 28, the day of Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić’s
death, a memorial service was held in Zagreb at the Basilica of
the Sacred Heart. Around 70 protesters gathered in front of the
church, and next to them was a group of Pavelić’s supporters
who were saluting “Siege Hail”, shouting abuse at the gathered
antifascists calling them Serbs and singing Ustasha songs. The
police soon issued a statement saying that no attacks had been
reported and no one was apprehended. 23
/1.5.2. Protest against Commemoration in Jadovno
For the third year in a row, the Croatian Guard Troops Veterans’
Association and Association of Croatian Homeland War
Volunteers from Rijeka and Gospić (UHDDR) held a protest on the
eve of Jadovno 1941 Remembrance Day commemoration. The
commemoration was organized by the SNV, the Coordination of
Jewish Communities in Croatia, the Upper Karlovac Eparchy and
the Alliance of Anti-fascist Fighters and Anti-fascists (SABA),
in memory of Jadovno concentration camp, the second biggest
execution site in the NDH, after Jasenovac. In a statement for the
media, Mile Biondić, president of the Rijeka UHDDR, disputed data
that some 40,000 Serbs, Jews and members of other nationalities
were killed in Jadovno and said this was a “greater-Serb myth
that is supported by some members of our people”.
22 Croatian coat-of-arms
with the checkerboard
starting with the white
field was used during the
Nazi NDH
23 Mass for Ante Pavelić:
Fifteen fascists physically
attacked protesters
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