Bob Dylan is being investigated in France after a Croatian community organisation alleged that comments he made to Rolling Stone magazine last year amounted to incitement to racial hatred, Paris prosecutors said today.
In the interview, which was published in the magazine's September 27, 2012 edition, the singer said racism was holding America back. "People at each others' throats just because they are of a different colour. Blacks know that some whites didn't want to give up slavery - that if they had their way, they would still be under the yoke, and they can't pretend they don't know that ..... If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood.'
The formal investigation followed a legal complaint from the organisation, CRICCF, which is based in France, alleging that the comments as carried in the French version of the magazine violated French racial hatred laws.
CRICCF secretary general Vlatko Maric confirmed that Parisian courts have agreed to hear the case and have requested Dylan’s presence during the hearing, the International Business Times reports. In a statement, Maric said: 'It is an incitement to hatred. You cannot compare Croatian criminals to all Croats. But we have nothing against Rolling Stone magazine or Bob Dylan as a singer. '
In France, racism complaints automatically trigger formal investigations, irrespective of the merits of the case.
Dylan was awarded France's prestigious Legion d'Honneur award last month in Paris.
The formal investigation followed a legal complaint from the organisation, CRICCF, which is based in France, alleging that the comments as carried in the French version of the magazine violated French racial hatred laws.
CRICCF secretary general Vlatko Maric confirmed that Parisian courts have agreed to hear the case and have requested Dylan’s presence during the hearing, the International Business Times reports. In a statement, Maric said: 'It is an incitement to hatred. You cannot compare Croatian criminals to all Croats. But we have nothing against Rolling Stone magazine or Bob Dylan as a singer. '
In France, racism complaints automatically trigger formal investigations, irrespective of the merits of the case.
Dylan was awarded France's prestigious Legion d'Honneur award last month in Paris.
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517299/Bob-Dylan-faces-jail-charged-race-hate-crime-comparing-Croats-Nazis-KKK.html
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Croatia's Dark History - Brief outline by historian Laurence Rees
The dark and dreadful history of Croatia during WW2 is not something that is high on anyone’s agenda – it certainly isn’t a history that helps promote tourism.
From the spring of 1941 Croatia was an Independent puppet state within the Nazi Empire and the Croatian authorities – the Ustashi – under their leader Ante Pavelic – pursued a policy of racial and ethnic persecution every bit as bloody as the Nazis. The Ustashi established their own concentration camps, the biggest of which was the complex at Jasenovac along the bank of the Sava river.
At Jasenovac the Croats murdered between 70,000 and a 100,000 people (as the war came to an end the Ustashi did all they could to destroy evidence of the exact numbers they killed).
The Jewish population of Croatia was all but eliminated, with the vast majority of the 40,000 or so Croat Jews killed by the Ustashi or the Nazis. Croat gypsies suffered as well, with around 30,000 murdered. And the Serbian population of Croatia was also targeted.
Between 300,000 and 400,000 Serbs (some reports say many more) were murdered by the Croat Ustashi . Incredible statistics that are brought into even starker relief by the horrendous manner of many of the deaths.
The Ustashi became infamous for the way they tortured and killed their victims – often in a manner too horrible to relate here.
Read more - http://ww2history.com/blog/ww2-relevance/croatias-dark-history/
THE MOST HEINOUS KILLERS OF THE HOLOCAUST: THE MUSLIM-CATHOLIC CROATIAN "USTASHA"
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By Edwin Black
A Muslim-Catholic alliance of Nazi killers so gruesome and beastly that even Berlin shrank in horror at the slaughter. This berserk army of ghastly murderers, the Ustasha, and three related crack divisions of Arab-Nazi Waffen SS comprised of tens of thousands of Muslim volunteers, terrorized people of all faiths in Yugoslavia.
In large measure, these murder machines emerged through the efforts of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. The Grand Mufti was on a mission to accelerate the extermination of all Jews everywhere. His partner was Adolf Hitler — personally. The epic story of this alliance of horror and hate is one that begins in Jerusalem, travels to Baghdad, culminates in the killing fields of the Balkans, and ultimately spread across all Europe.
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Catholic Church and Nazi alliance in Croatia
http://www.tenc.net/croatia/stepinac1.htm
The Ustashe - The Croatian Nazis
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/backin.htm
November 2013 - Croats celebrate soccer win with Nazi chants
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/croatia-nazi-chant-joe-simunic_n_4308138.html
Nazi memorial in Croatia a disgrace for Europe
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Nazi-memorial-in-Croatia-a-disgrace-to-Europe
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