Former
Croatian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to US and UN attends Nazi concert
June 23, 2007 -- Croatia's former Foreign Minister and Ambassador to
the US and the UN was pictured attending, along with his family, a neo-Nazi
concert festival in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
Miomir Zuzul is a Croatian diplomat and a politician who was Croatia's
deputy foreign minister in 1992-1993, then an ambassador to the United
Nations in 1993-1996, ambassador to the United States 1996-2000 as well
as foreign minister of Croatia during 2003-2005.
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Zuzul at the Nazi-fest in Croatia along with his wife and two sons, both
wearing Thompson t-shirts. |
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The concert that Zuzul and his family was attending was held in Zagreb's
largest stadium, Maksimir, and featured a performance by a controversial
rock singer Thompson whose songs include a remake of a 1942 Croatian Nazi
song glorifying extermination of Jews and Serbs.
Simon Wiesenthal Center recently expressed outrage and disgust in the
wake of a massive show of fascist salutes, symbols and uniforms at a rock
concert by popular ultra-nationalist Croatian singer Thompson.
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fan in a Nazi salute at the concert. The salute is euphemistically referred
to in Croatia as "measuring corn". |
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In a letter to the Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, the Center's chief
Nazi hunter Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff noted the presence of Croatian
dignitaries, including the Minister of Science, Education and Sports, at
the event and called for the banning of concerts by singers like Thompson
who glorify fascism and racism.
In a response the Croatian government has issued a statement saying
that the "Croatian government rejects any attempt at using and displaying
insignia and salutes from the World War Two Ustasha regime… Contemporary
Croatia rests on the values of the [1990s] Homeland War as well as on the
foundations of antifascism and resistance to all forms of totalitarianism."
During WWII, Croatian nazi regime killed over 1.5 million Serbs and
Jews. In 1995, during the Croatian Homeland War, over 300,000 Serbian civilians
have been murdered and expelled by the Croatian forces.
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fans in a massive Nazi salute during the concert. |
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Despite the government's denunciation of the Nazi fest, Croatian media
is attributing a largely positive buzz on the event.
A Croatian website, Lupiga.com, told its readers that missing the concert
was a "disaster" because it was a "spectacle above all spectacles".
"You cannot even dream what you have missed. Black was once again the
ultimate hit, and measuring of corn has not been more massive in no other
of European countries," website wrote in a coded phrasing.
"Black" is referred to the color of the Croatian Nazi uniforms in the
WWII and "measuring corn" is a euphemism for Hitler's Nazi salute.
Over 60,000 attended the Nazi concert.
serbianna June 23, 2007
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