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<strong>SNV</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> <strong>#6</strong> / 88<br />
the loudspeakers and the protesters said Jasenovac was only<br />
a working camp where no more than 400 people had perished,<br />
while only a single corpse had been found in the pits of Mt<br />
Velebit where Jadovno camp was located in 1941. “I am telling<br />
Milorad Pupovac to mark my words – this is his last celebration in<br />
Srb”. The A-HSP party was also one of the organisers of protests<br />
against the round table at the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka<br />
on August 5. “This is a Chetnik-communist gathering, get out of<br />
here and go to Serbia, this is a Croatian and not a Serb theatre...”<br />
the angry rightists shouted. Some 15 A-HSP members gathered on<br />
December 22, the birthday of Ustasha colonel Rafael Boban, at<br />
the Florijan square in Koprivnica and put up a memorial plaque in<br />
the street where Boban had lived to mark what would have been<br />
his 108 th birthday.<br />
/1.5.4. Celebration of the 20 th anniversary<br />
of Operation Storm in Knin<br />
Following the military parade in the centre of Zagreb a day earlier,<br />
the 20 th anniversary of Operation Storm was marked by a central<br />
celebration in Knin on August 5. Journalists reported that on<br />
the day some person in Knin shouted “For the Homeland Ready”<br />
and that proscribed Ustasha iconography was sported and sold.<br />
A group of football fans (Bad Blue Boys) sang with their right<br />
arms raised “We Croatians do not drink wine, but the blood of<br />
Chetniks from Knin”.<br />
The celebration ended in a chauvinist atmosphere and with an<br />
incendiary concert by Marko Perković Thompson at the Dinara<br />
soccer club stadium, the start of which was marked by a number<br />
of lit torches and shouts “For the Homeland Ready”, “Kill the<br />
Serb”, “To battle, to battle...” According to the police, some<br />
60,000 persons gathered at the football pitch.<br />
/1.5.5. Protest Against Holding the “Second War”<br />
Round Table in Rijeka<br />
While the central celebration of the military-police Operation<br />
Storm was still under way in Knin, five women of different nationalities<br />
who were expelled from their homes during the 1991–1995<br />
war narrated their memories of the war days at the Croatian<br />
National Theatre Ivana pl. Zajca in Rijeka. This event was the<br />
result of cooperation between the Ivana pl. Zajca Theatre, the
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