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Extensions of Remarks 28366 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 23, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS DOBROSLAV PARAGA: PARAGON the Defense Forces, was fatally shot by Cro­ concerned with nationalism and dedicated to OF VIRTUE IN THE NEW CROATIA? atian police when, according to police, his human rights regardless of nation or faith. car ignored a roadblock. Now he heads the ultra-nationalist Cro­ Paraga said it was a government assassina­ atian Party of Rights (HSP) and its para­ HON. HELEN DEUCH BENTLEY tion. "Our vice president had accused people military wing, the Croatian Defense Force OF MARYLAND in the government of embezzling state funds (HOS). IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that were supposed to be used for buying " I haven't changed," he told Reuters in an Wednesday, October 23, 1991 weapons," he said. " We were informed by interview in his office in a huge baroque two unofficial sources that an assassination building in central Zagreb. Mrs. BENTLEY. Mr. Speaker, on October was planned, but we didn't know who it "I am still a pacifist. I care about the 16, during my special order on "Dobroslav would be or when." rights of individuals, the rights of my peo­ Paraga" the following articles were omitted. Paraga says his forces include a former ple." For the benefit of my colleagues, I wish to U.S. Army colonel, a man of Croatian origin He was speaking as HOS fighters, armed to submit them now: who retired a month ago from a U.S. base in the teeth and wearing camouflage gear, bus­ [From the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 7, 1991] Italy. He refused to give his name. Outside tled through the building's cavernous halls his office, reporters encountered a man in and wide marble stairwells. CROATIAN EXTREMIST SPOILING FOR WIDER uniform who said he was from Houston, but The soldiers, mostly unemployed youths or WAR did not identify himself. from families of blue-collar workers, carry (By Ray Moseley) The bespectacled, bookish-looking party submachineguns and search visitors before ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA.-There is more than leader said ethnic Croatians from the U.S. to allowing them into Paraga's office. one war being fought in Croatia. In addition Australia help finance his army and have Even fellow Croats and those who once to the official one, Dobroslav Paraga and his equipped it with sophisticated weaponry. championed Paraga's cause now consider armed followers are waging their own pri­ The arms, he said, include U.S. Stinger and him either a lunatic or a potential threat to vate struggle. Soviet Strela anti-aircraft missiles as well Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Paraga, 30, who heads the extremist Cro­ as East German-made Armbrust anti-tank Croatian police shot dead Paraga's number atian Party of Rights, says he has 2,000 fight­ rockets. two, Ante Pradzic, last month. ers at the war front and another 10,000 armed Paraga said his forces also have tanks cap­ Paraga says the HOS has 10,000 men, all and ready to go. They include party mem­ tured from the army. "We are better armed volunteers, who joined the force because bers, ethnic Croatians who have come from than the Croatian regular forces," he said. they felt Tudjman and his ruling Croatian the United States and other countries to join The Party of Rights claims is history of 130 Democratic Union (HDZ) were incapable of the struggle, and some mercenaries. years. But critics say the original party of protecting Croats. Paraga's goal is no less than the creation that name, which favored Croatian independ­ More than 1,000 people have been killed in of a "Greater Croatia," restoring the repub­ ence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was Croatia since it declared independence in lic to borders it had until early in this cen­ a liberal party and Paraga has simply appro­ June and Paraga's men have been in the tury. priated its name. The party was banned in forefront of some of the bloodiest fighting. To achieve that, he would have to conquer 1929. Paraga founded his party in 1990. "The authorities were afraid of me when I sizable areas of Serbia up to the outskirts of He said there are party branches in several was a dissident and they are even more Belgrade, and parts of Bosnia-Herzegovina U.S. cities, including Chicago, and in Canada afraid of me now," said the tall, moon-faced and Montenegro. In short, he would have to and Australia. In Croatia itself, he said, the Paraga, who was jailed for four years under plunge all of Yugoslavia into war. party has more than 100,000 members. communism. Western diplomats and the Croatian gov­ Critics say the party is descended from the ernment view his activities with distaste. He was imprisoned in 1980 for alleged links fascist Ustashi movement that governed Cro­ with hostile emigre groups and for petition­ Diplomats said his army, which he calls the atia as a Nazi puppet state in World War II. Croatian Defense Forces, sabotaged a cease­ ing for the release of political prisoners in The party's last prewar secretary, Ante Yugoslavia. fire more than a week ago by capturing an Pavelic, founded the Ustashi and served as army barracks at Bjelovar. That prompted His accounts of the murder of political Croatian president during the war. prisoners and systematic brutality towards the army to renew its offensive against Cro­ Paraga denies that the Ustashi were fas­ atia. them in Yugoslavia cau.sed shock at home cists or ever under the control of Nazi Ger­ and abroad. The Defense Forces sometimes fight along­ many. He does admit that the Ustashi es­ side the Croatian National Guard, Paraga Serbs, who oppose Croatia's independence poused racial policies and sent many Jews to moves and make up a sizeable minority in said. But diplomats said they also pursue ob­ their deaths, but says his party does not jectives contrary to government policy. the republic, have branded Paraga a neo-fas­ share such racial views, nor does it consider cist. Paraga says President Franjo Tudjman is itself as a successor movement. guilty of "high treason" for having agreed to He dismisses the charges of extremism and "We are a democratic party, and dictator­ neo-fascism. cease-fires. He says there can be no truce ships are unacceptable for us," he said. until all of Croatia is liberated. Paraga claimed that, in the present war, "In some ways we are the most powerful Despite such statements, the government Croatian forces were on the verge of forcing party in Croatia," he said. "Many fighters in tolerates his activities. It would appear to the surrender of blockaded army bases when the Croatian armed forces are our boys, the have little choice, because any attempt to Tudjman recently accepted a ceasefire. members of this party." bring the Defense Forces under government Paraga said "many of our people will have His party wants an independent state of control probably would touch off a war to die" before Croatia is liberated. Croatia whose borders would include the among Croatians. neighboring republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Paraga is a former journalist and human­ [From Reuters, Oct. 10, 1991] Its borders coincide with those of a Nazi rights campaigner who was jailed under the puppet state during World War II run by fa­ CROATIAN NATIONALIST ONCE FOUGHT natical Croatian fascists called "ustashe," former Communist regime. He operates from COMMUNISTS-Now SERBS a downtown office building that bristles with who killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, military activity. (By Andrej Gustincic) Jews and gypsies. Men armed with ancient-looking machine ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA.-Dobroslav Paraga "We recognize the validity of the wartime guns guard the entrance. A woman rushes in was once a mild-mannered dissident who en­ Croatian state but reject its regime," he and pleads for troops to be sent to her village dured imprisonment in formerly communist­ said. "We are not ustashe. We do not have to save it from the army. A young man hast­ ruled Yugoslavia. Now he leads Croatian ustashe ideology and we don't sing ustashe ily picks up two grenades, drops one on a ultra-nationalists branded as neo-fascist by songs." stone floor, then retrieves it and dashes out Serbs. But HOS uniforms bear the ustashe motto the door with her. While communists were in power in the "Za Dom Spremni" (" Ready to Serve the Two weeks ago Ante Paradzik, the Party 1980s, he became an international cause cele­ Homeland") and some of the soldiers wear of Rights' vice president and commander of bre as one of the few Yugoslav dissidents un- badges saying "ustashe renaissance." •This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. October 23, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28367 Paraga is dedicated to stopping the expan­ The word, he said, simply means "to rise up enemies than friends because it is the only sionism of Croatia's arch-rival, Serbia, and against.'' party fighting for the independence of Cro­ says that Serbs have enslaved non-Serbs in Mr. Paraga, 30, has an international rep­ atia." Yugoslavia. utation as an outspoken dissident and was The party's president blames Mr. Tudjman "The message is clear: the Serbian advance jailed several times by the Communist re­ for the killing. He claims that Mr. must be stopped forever," he said. gime. He is regarded as the first person to Tudjman's government includes high offi­ document human-rights abuses by the Com­ cials and cabinet members who were former [From Toronto Globe and Mail, Sept.
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