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	Operation Medak pocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Croatians were largely armed with Eastern Bloc materiel including T-72 tanks, as well as large numbers of artillery pieces and an array of small arms.
		The Croatian forces, largely on the initiative of the local commanders who were out of contact with their central command, decided to oppose the Canadians.
		After the Croatian withdrawal, the Canadians found that (in the words of an official Canadian study on the incident) "each and every building in the Medak Pocket had been leveled to the ground", in a total of eleven villages and hamlets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Medak_pocket (1307 words)

	News in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Croatian national from Pula, who is diving instructor, is under the suspicion of offering logistic backup to German and Austrian divers.
		Speaking on what had motivated him to form the Croatian Bloc, he said that the 3 January 2000 elections had given Croatia an incompetent government whose alternative the HDZ was due to discord and lack of unity, incapable of being an alternative.
		The Croatian Bloc assembly was attended by representatives of all opposition parties bar the HDZ or any of the ruling coalition's parties.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2002/10/28/ENG.html (474 words)

	Croatia - Political Parties
		Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was founded by Franjo Tudjman in 1989 originally as a platform-movement-like party but was soon transformed into a nationalist movement.
		Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) was founded in 1904 under Stjepan Radic and Vlatko Macek and represented roughly 80 to 90 percent of the Croatian electorate during the period between World War I and World War II.
		Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) was founded in 1990, and, despite its keen sense of nationalism and xenophobia, the HSP did not present a substantial threat to the HDZ’s power base largely because it has had a tendency to fragment.
	www.unc.edu /~vineyard/politicalparties.htm (610 words)

	AIM News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Croatian MPs were this evening holding an extraordinary parliamentary session to debate the government's decision to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal.
		Talks between the Croatian prime minister and Ademi's lawyer were one of the reasons for the adjournment of today's parliamentary closed session to discuss the government's decision to cooperate with the court.
		Meanwhile, the Croatian government strongly denied reports that there were in fact five names on the two sealed indictments issued by The Hague.
	www.aim.ac.yu /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=69 (1326 words)

	The FAME: Croatia - Political Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The party flag is the Croatian tricolour, with the white stripe artistically shown.
		The flag is Croatian tricolour with party emblem in the middle - emblem consisting of a shield divided by a white bend sinister with balck letters HSP, the upper field being chequy red and white and lower field is blue.
		The flag is the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle, consisting of initials SDH and a red rose.
	jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/hr-polit.html (2010 words)

	Croatian fishermen protest postponement to proclaim fishing zone in Adriatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fishermen "voice disappointment by the decision and are considering to undertake concrete actions to express dissatisfaction, such as blockades and closures of the Croatian ports," a statement by their trade union said.
		The creation of the zone was approved last year after the previous coalition government dropped plans for an exclusive economic zone in the face of protests from Ljubljana, which complained it would be left without direct access to international shipping waters.
		Croatian fishermen claim that the fishing and ecological zone is necessary to protect fish stock in the Adriatic Sea which they say is already devastated by their Italian counterparts who have a far more superior fishing fleet.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040607164636.ezrsokh1.html (321 words)

	Croatian Government Bulletin - Croatia and the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The State Department admits that Croatian courts have initiated a series of processes against Croats suspected of war crimes, but it remains to be seen whether the judicial system is capable enough to conduct a fair and transparent trial in such complex and highly charged cases.
		The OSCE is concerned over the new law on Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) which might not sufficiently decrease the parliament's influence on the election of the HRT leadership.
		The Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (HAZU) should enhance its international cooperation, include younger staff in the working process and professionalize its activities, the HAZU secretary Andrija Kastelan said presenting a report on the Academy's activities in 2002.
	www.vlada.hr /Bulletin/2003/april/humanright.htm (1708 words)

	Stjepan Radic
		The party's Slavism was to be expressed primarily through Croatian and Serb cooperation in Croatia and then in the sharing of common interests with Slovene lands and other Slavic countries, especially with "the progressive Czechs and the strong Russians".
		Second, representatives of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, as well as of some of the other groups, rejected the demand to take the oath of allegiance to the Serbian king before the constitution was promulgated.
		Moreover, Croatians began demanding complete national independence and more radical means to achieve it, and for that purpose the revolutionary Ustasha movement was formed by the radical forces at the end of 1929.
	crostudies.50megs.com /per_radic.html (7878 words)

	Manolic
		All this was done by one brigadier, claimed Manolic; he did not name him, but the important thing is that he is a Croatian Army brigadier, which is irresistibly reminiscent of a report in the Belgrade daily 'Politika' alleging that a Serbian woman was raped by an unidentified person of Albanian nationality.
		Manolic seems to have suddenly forgotten that the perpetrators of the cited crimes were identified and convicted as provocateurs from the so-called Labrador group.
		The organization of the SZUP was entrusted to Josip Manolic, Minister of the Interior and former chief of the Croatian SDB.
	voiceofcroatia.net /Manolic.htm (1077 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Croatian Serb leader says Djapic's statement fosters segregation, HINA, May 25, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He said that Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) leader Anto Djapic's statement that he was not ready to cooperate with Serb parties fostered segregation.
		Statements by the leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) that they consider this right-wing party a desirable coalition partner bear witness to political irresponsibility and "the madness of political relativism", Pupovac said.
		He particularly criticised Croatian Television, saying that some people were turning it into a private medium and using it to foment hatred towards him and the policy and community that he represented.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2005/May_25/9.html (381 words)

	Welcome to the Independent Web Magazine VoiceofCroatia.net
		Numerous Croatian journalists have complained her office has often sought to intimidate them in order to prevent any negative press coverage of the tribunal.
		Croatians are a (conveniently) forgotten nation when it comes to such subjects.
		He served with Croatian hero General Ante Gotovina, trained the HOS forces (which its founder confirmed in writing) and participated in several battles before departing at the halt of the Serb expansionist onslaught and subsequent recognition of Croatian independence.
	voiceofcroatia.net (9092 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first bloc is comprised of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by reformist ex-communist Ivica Racan and the Croatian Social Democratic Party (HSLS) of the moderate nationalist Drazen Budisa.
		Theoretically the opposition could solve that problem by simply converting the two blocs into single parties, but the likely reaction of the party memberships to such a plan would be hard to gauge, as several found it hard to accept the forming of the coalitions in the first place.
		According to the Croatian daily Jutarnji List, the HDZ plans to increase the numbers of deputies elected from some regions, by another 33 in total, and increase the number of seats open to the Croatian diaspora.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19991026_4_eng.txt (1081 words)

	EU accuses candidate Croatia over fugitive general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gotovina was also most probably sheltering in Croatia or Croatian areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina, "in any case within the reach of the Croatian government," he added.
		Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader voiced surprise over the threat to postpone the start of entry talks, rejecting the allegation that the government had had contacts with Gotovina.
		That means finding and handing over Gotovina, who went into hiding in 2001 when the UN court charged him with war crimes against ethnic Serbs at the end of Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/feb05/hed6900.shtml (622 words)

	Canadian Alliance and Bloc Quebecois rubbing shoulders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bloc MP Pierre Savoie, who was a delegate to the leadership Convention of the Alliance, declared that he didn't think the Alliance would win any seats in Quebec: “We are already proposing tax cuts.
		Eric Duhaime, former senior advisor of Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe and a collaborator in the Fraser Institute, a major rightwing think-tank in Canada, was among the chief organizers of Day's leadership campaign in Quebec.
		A coalition between the Bloc Quebecois and the Canadian Alliance is far from being “unnatural.” Rather, it would reveal the reactionary essence of the nationalist project and represent another stage in the long collaboration between the Canadian right and Quebec nationalists.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/aug2000/queb-a26.shtml (1723 words)

	HRVATSKA POVIJEST: ---> Ante Äuvalo - STJEPAN RADIC: HIS LIFE, HIS PARTY, HIS POLITICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After enumerating the outstanding problems and Croatian political goals, the memorandum offered a solution to the most important problem, Serbian centralism, the establishment of "a sovereign Croatia within the boundaries of the commonwealth of Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia".38 Radic's hopes were not realized.
		Croatian nationalists and even Communists condemned Radic's compromise with Pasic and the Karadjordjevic regime.44 It was believed that he had betrayed the basic principles of the Croatian national strategy.
		He became increasingly attacked as a renegade and as a "traitor of everything that is Croatian" 46 Although Radic's and Pribicevic's move to create the Peasant- Democratic coalition was a logical one, it surprised most contemporary political observers.
	povijest.blogspot.com /2004/09/ante-uvalo-stjepan-radic-his-life-his.html (7612 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		The county court in the Croatian city of Pula ruled on 23 March that former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski be handed over to The Hague-based international war crimes tribunal, MIA news agency reported.
		The Croatian Justice Ministry said in a statement on 24 March that Boskovski has been extradited, and the tribunal later announced that he has arrived in The Hague, Reuters reported.
		The former minister -- who holds Croatian as well as Macedonian citizenship -- was held in pretrial detention in Pula in connection with the killing of six Pakistanis and one Indian outside Skopje in March 2002 (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 28 February 2005 and "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 27 May 2004).
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/03/4-SEE/see-240305.asp?po=y (1159 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		CDU's comeback and the rise of other right-wing parties (the Croatian Party of Rights, the Croatian Bloc coalition, and the Association for Croatia's Identity and Prosperity, led by Tudjman's son) proved a shock for many.
		Norac, a retired general of the Croatian Army and regarded by many as a war hero, was a witness in a case prosecuted before the Rijeka County Court.
		While many were not surprised by the news, CDU and other opposition parties saw it as the most recent development in the tribunal's attack on Croatian sovereignty, and, in response, began to name streets and squares after Tudjman, as a protest against the international community.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol10num2_3/constitutionwatch/croatia.html (2172 words)

	EUbusiness - EU decision on Croatia to hinge on war crimes prosecutor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Croatian cooperation with the UN's chief war-crimes prosecutor will play a large part in an EU decision on whether to launch entry talks with the Balkan nation, the bloc's Dutch presidency said Wednesday.
		EU foreign ministers proposed Monday for the bloc to open accession talks with Croatia around April 2005, provided it cooperates with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
		Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader insisted in an interview with AFP on Tuesday that his government was fully cooperating with the ICTY.
	www.eubusiness.com /afp/041215112854.5i1pj04t (454 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Printer Version \| Postponed EU negotiations to bring Croatia closed to Belgrade, BBC ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), which has been trying to maintain a pro-European image, has become the fourth most powerful in the country and is winning 8 per cent of the votes.
		The marginal political parties that have grown out of the HDZ, such as the Croatian Bloc (HB), have been trying to return to the scene by using the rhetoric of the Euro-sceptics.
		The marginal HIP (Croatian True Revival) and the SIN (Independence and Progress) have also risen from the dead for the purposes of the local election.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2005/March_14/15.html?w=p (813 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Croatian victory 'offers hope'
		With 84% of the vote counted in Croatia, the main opposition bloc, headed by former Communist Party leader Ivica Racan, is clearly in the lead in nine out of 11 constituencies.
		Another centrist four-party coalition is set to have 24, with the rest taken by a minor rightist bloc.
		The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) said the Croatian elections were an opportunity to remind the public of the refugees' fate, the Beta news agency reported.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_591000/591098.stm (888 words)

	Croatian moderates face nationalist election challenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Croatian moderates are running neck-and-neck with a powerful nationalist party in the race for Sunday's legislative elections, which could decide who leads the country into the European Union.
		Opinion polls put the nationalist Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) ahead of Prime Minister Ivica Racan's Social Democratic Party (SDP), the leading force of the incumbent center-left coalition.
		But Zagreb's EU bid has been jeopardised by its failure to arrest fugitive retired general Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the UN war crimes court at The Hague for allegedly massacring at least 150 ethnic Serbs during the 1991-95 war here.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/nov03/hed6113.shtml (638 words)

	Croatia's EU Bid Threatened \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Croatian President Stipe Mesic beat his ruling conservative party rival in Sunday's election, securing a second five-year term and promising to lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union.
		While debate still focuses on Turkey, EU Commission chief Jose Barroso said he is confident the bloc will agree to a date for Romania and Bulgaria to sign accession treaties and for Croatia to start entry talks.
		Growing Croatian Skepticism About EU Croatia's government is hoping to secure a date for accession talks when European Union leaders huddle for their winter summit in Brussels next Thursday despite signs of growing Euroskepticism at home.
	dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1474885,00.html?... (754 words)

	nij159
		Racan was repeating, in vain, that Croatian socialdemocrats took a firm stand beside Budisa, describing Mesic only as "likeable", but adding Mesic was, in fact, incapable of being a president.
		In 1994, as the president of Croatian parliament, Mesic turned against Tudjman - to whom he had been a right arm before - not accepting the politics of dividing B-H. He belongs among the rare who left then ruling Croatian Democratic Union and faded into political margin where they ferociously attacked Tudjman.
		Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of the late president Tudjman was a retrograde political option whose leaders have supported thievery during transition.
	www.idee.org /nij159.html (4468 words)

	THE ELECTIONS OF 1923 IN THE KINGDOM OF THE SERBS, CROATS, AND SLOVENES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Out of a total of 78 Croatian deputies elected in 1923, 68 were members of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, 5 were Democrats, 3 were "Bunjevci" (Croatian People's Party from Bačka), and 2 were Independents from Dalmatia.
		The 70 Croatian Peasant Party deputies were apportioned as follows among the four provinces where the party had presented lists of candidates: Croatia-Slavonia 52 deputies (out of a total of 68), Dalmatia 7 (out of 15), Bosnia-Hercegovina 9 (out of 48), and Slovenia 2 (out of 26).
		The election results vindicated Radić's efforts to unite the Croatian people, his opposition to the proclamation of Yugoslav union, his boycott of the Constituent Assembly, his condemnation of the Vidovdan Constitution, and his demands for a Croatian Peasant Republic.
	www.studiacroatica.com /jcs/01/01elections.htm (2711 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The late president's son is building a new right-wing alliance among Croatians enraged by The Hague.
		The CTR wants to lead a "Croatian bloc" of extreme-right, nationalist parties such as the Croatian Party of Rights and the Croatian Demo-Christian Union, which account for five per cent of the electorate.
		After Croatian President Stjepan Mesic "retired" seven generals last year, Tudjman penned an open letter warning that the government was leading the country to the "brink of chaos and conflict".
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20010810_2_eng.txt (1012 words)

	Croatia News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anto Kovaèeviæ is the president of the Croatian Christian Democratic Union (HKDU) and a member of parliament.
		Iviæ Paaliæ, from the Croatian Bloc — Movement for a modern Croatia, was the domestic policy advisor to the late president Tuðman.
		Tomislav Petrak, backed by the Croatian Populace Party (HPS), is a university professor who currently is Head of the Laboratory for Meat and Fish Technology at the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology at the University of Zagreb.
	www.croatianewsonline.com /news.php?id=113 (304 words)

	Croatian Government Bulletin - Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to the Bill, they would be elected on the basis of general voting rights and if they do not achieve proper representation, then they would be given the opportunity for their election to be regulated by the election law.
		Luka Trconic of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) said that there would be eight minority MPs - three Serbs, and one each for the Muslim, Italian, Czech and Slovak, and Hungarian communities, and one MP for the remaining minorities.
		Even though he partially supported the Bill, Ivic Pasalic of the Croatian Bloc (HB) opposed the idea that minorities be ensured representatives in local bodies of the executive authority regardless of election results, considering that this would discriminate against the majority Croatian population.
	www.vlada.hr /Bulletin/2002/december/humanrights.htm (923 words)

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