Ante Pavelić to receive monument in Zagreb?

The Croatian extreme right-wing group HUP say they plan to erect a monument in Zagreb to ustasha leader Ante Pavelic. Moreover, the Croatian Cultural Movement (HUP) stated that retired General Ante Gotovina would be their candidate at the next presidential elections, a statement few have taken seriously though with Gotovina on trial at the Hague Tribunal for war crimes. Ante Pavelic to receive monument in Zagreb? HUP gained certain renown for besieging the family home of former Partizan commander Stjepan Hrsak and trying—unsuccessfully— to force him to confess to organizing the execution of a group of twenty priests in 1945. The president of the organization, Tomislav Dragun, told Croatian news website Index that the idea for a monument to Pavelic had been inspired by the news that a monument to Chetnik leader Draza Mihailovic had been erected in Serbia. Dragun said that he “must praise the Serbs who care about their past and respect their greats, especially the most important ones, while the Croatian Right can’t even do that because of President Stjepan Mesic.” He said that a HUP delegation would soon be taking a fact-finding trip to Serbia to look at the monument to Draza Mihailovic, the findings of which they would then use in Croatia. The HUN president added that there was already a possible location for the Pavelic monument very close to the central square in Zagreb.

Ante Pavelić to receive monument in Zagreb?

HUP gained certain renown for besieging the family home of former Partizan commander Stjepan Hršak and trying—unsuccessfully— to force him to confess to organizing the execution of a group of twenty priests in 1945.

The president of the organization, Tomislav Dragun, told Croatian news website Index that the idea for a monument to Pavelić had been inspired by the news that a monument to Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović had been erected in Serbia.

Dragun said that he “must praise the Serbs who care about their past and respect their greats, especially the most important ones, while the Croatian Right can’t even do that because of President Stjepan Mesić.”

He said that a HUP delegation would soon be taking a fact-finding trip to Serbia to look at the monument to Draža Mihailović, the findings of which they would then use in Croatia.

The HUN president added that there was already a possible location for the Pavelić monument very close to the central square in Zagreb.