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Wiesenthal Center slams Croatian star nostalgic for pro-Nazi regime

By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent

The Simon Wiesenthal Center complained on Saturday to Croatia's state television channel regarding its broadcast of a singer known for expressing nostalgia for Ustasha, Croatia's pro-Nazi ruling party during World War II.

The singer, Marko Perkovic, who is also known as "Thompson," is one of the most popular rock stars in Croatia. One of his songs is named after the Jasenovac concentration camp, where Croatian forces killed 90,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies.

The Croatian network, Channel 2, aired on Saturday a Perkovic concert, held two weeks ago and attended by some 60,000 spectators. Many of the fans were shown sporting Ustasha symbols and uniforms.

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Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center in Israel, said that the decision by the state television channel to air the concert was an expression of support for Croatia's past crimes.

'The widespread display of Ustasha and ultranationlist symbols at Thompson concerts is no mistake or coincidence. A singer who sings nostalgically about Ustasha leader Ante Pavelic and favorably about Croatia's worst World War II concentration camps Jasenovac and Stara Gradiska, is openly urging his fans to identify with the genocidal Ustasha regime which sought to liquidate Croatia's Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies as well as their Croatian political opponents," says a statement issued by the Wiesenthal Center.

"By broadcasting Thompson's concert on state television in prime time the government is in essence expressing its approval for his hateful message," the statement concludes

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1.	Ustasha - barbarians	20:24	\|	Atrocities	01/07/07

2.	Marko Perkovic	20:48	\|	Ante	01/07/07

3.	a response to Ante from Croatia - #2	21:05	\|	Kate	01/07/07

4.	Ante	21:38	\|	Albert Seligman	01/07/07

5.	Dumber but typical europeans	22:05	\|	Jon	01/07/07

6.	Everyone Is Always On The Wrong Side Of The Serb Conflicts	22:30	\|	Efox	01/07/07

7.	...not his song...	22:47	\|	IL	01/07/07

8.	Coations killed Jews?	23:53	\|	Rob	01/07/07

9.	#5 Jon	01:04	\|	Andreas	02/07/07

10.	IL has the point..	01:26	\|	Joseph	02/07/07

11.	Polyphony of thoughts..	04:46	\|	Joseph	02/07/07

12.	90 000?	12:47	\|	syd	02/07/07

13.	90 000? Continued ...	12:56	\|	syd	02/07/07

14.	90 000? Continued ... 2	13:04	\|	syd	02/07/07

15.	Croatian star nostalgic for pro-Nazi regime	14:51	\|	Mario	02/07/07

16.	disgusting	21:37	\|	mario	02/07/07

17.	Atrocities on crack	21:43	\|	mario	02/07/07

18.	mario, simply, misinterpret data	12:09	\|	syd	03/07/07

19.	mario, simply, misinterpret data 2	12:15	\|	syd	03/07/07

20.	mario, simply, misinterpret data 3	12:28	\|	syd	03/07/07

21.	mario, simply, misinterpret data	12:36	\|	syd	03/07/07

22.	data on your point	15:32	\|	mario	03/07/07

23.	Why are Jews Listening to Serbs Propaganda	23:54	\|	mario	03/07/07

24.	to mario, do you read books at all?	01:01	\|	syd	04/07/07

25.	re: mario	08:40	\|	Efox	04/07/07

26.	it should be clear that Croats are NOT pro-Nazi	16:40	\|	mario	04/07/07

27.	Thompson`s songs	16:51	\|	mario	04/07/07

28.	Thompson`s words in English:	16:54	\|	mario	04/07/07

29.	Ustasha and Jews	22:29	\|	joe	18/07/07

30.	to the hypocrites	15:15	\|	Ghost of the Past	20/07/07

31.	Lazy bum Efraim Zuroff	02:15	\|	Marcus Tullius	17/08/07

32.	I myself...	02:58	\|	MT	24/08/07

33.	Response 2 ante	02:58	\|	MT	24/08/07

34.	Thompson...	21:26	\|	James	09/10/07

35.	Response to Albert	18:50	\|	-----------	26/10/07

36.	Re: Everyone Is Always On The Wrong Side Of The Serb Conflicts	18:51	\|	--------	26/10/07

37.	Response to MT	18:54	\|	---------	26/10/07

38.	Response to James	18:54	\|	---------	26/10/07

39.	Band	22:40	\|	Borislav	26/10/07

40.	british	06:16	\|	rob	31/10/07

41.	Marko Perkovic doesn´t sing Nazi-songs	00:45	\|	Juraj Knezevic	10/01/08

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