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Monday June 25, 2001
Croatian Nazi Party Faces Its Final Battle in a United States Courtroom
Jonathan Levy - Tom Easton Attorneys
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www.vaticanbankclaims.com The Croatian Liberation Movement or Hrvatski
Oslobodilacki Pokret (HOP) is the direct successor to the Ustashe movement,
which slaughtered over 500,000 Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies during WWII in
Yugoslavia. Founded in 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina by the Butcher of the
Balkans, the Ustashe leader Ante Pavelic, perhaps the greatest mass murderer
to ever go unpunished, the Croatian Liberation Movement flourished in South
America, Australia, and North America until 1993 when it largely relocated to
Croatia. In 1999, survivors of World War II atrocities in Croatia and Bosnia
filed a class action lawsuit against the Croatian Liberation Movement in
Federal Court in San Francisco. The survivors sought the return of wartime
plunder used by the Croatian Liberation Movement to fund its post war
activities. While the combative Croatian Liberation Movement publicly stated
in 1999, "Antifascism is a lasting, reliable and merciless enemy of Croat
freedom and separate identity! Because of that, let us kill off antifascism,
and exterminate "victims of fascism" wherever they may be! That will resolve
all our problems." They did not respond to the lawsuit, despite service of
process being completed three times on the organization in Zagreb. In March
2001, the Clerk of the Federal Court entered a default against the Croatian
Liberation Movement and the matter is now before Judge Maxine Chesney to
decide the fate of the HOP. Attorney Jonathan Levy who represents Serb,
Jewish, and Ukrainian plaintiffs in the lawsuit hopes that the verdict will
put the Croatian Liberation Movement out of business once and for all. Levy
said, "The Croatian Liberation Movement is the last functioning Nazi Party
from Hitler’s time, it is still active in Croatian politics spreading it
hatred of Serbs and Jews, in 1999 it called for the death of the few
survivors of its reign of terror, a swift multimillion dollar verdict from
the court will allow us to shut them down once and for all." According to the
Zagreb Jewish community two Catholic churches (in Zagreb and Split) continue
to be used to propagate Pavelic's ideology and his Ustashe movement. 'It has
become common practice to hold services for Pavelic when followers of his
political ideas get together.' The class action lawsuit goes even further and
implicates the Franciscan Order and the Marian shrine at Medjugorje as two
other sources of the Ustashe revival. A ruling from the court is expected
this summer.
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