Dobroslav Paraga

Dobroslav Paraga (* 9. December 1960 in Zagreb ) is a as extremely nationalistic applicable Croatian politician and former party leader of the nationalist Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) . In the initial phase of the Croatian war Paraga was commander in chief of the paramilitary party militia " Croatian Defense Forces" (HOS) .

Life

Paraga had started to study theology and was imprisoned in 1981 for nationalist activities.

In 1989, under his leadership, the Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP, Croatian Party of Law), which sees itself as the successor to a party of the same name from the 1920s, was founded. The newly formed party was considered extremely nationalist oriented and tied open on the ideology of the Ustasha -Faschisten on. Nevertheless, when he was touring Germany in the summer of 1989, he was received by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and interviewed by several newspapers ( Süddeutsche Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , the daily newspaper ) and presented as a democratic oppositionist.

Dobroslav Paraga was a member of the Croatian Parliament in the early 1990s . On August 2, 1992, he ran in the presidential elections in Croatia and received 5.4% of the vote. Paraga was President Franjo Tuđman's most vocal opponent . During the Yugoslav wars, Paraga called for a “Croatia to the Drina” , which meant that Croatia should include all of Bosnia and Herzegovina up to the border with Serbia . In the ongoing state of war, however, the HSP declared that they only wanted a confederation of Croatia with Bosnia.

At the end of 1992 the Croatian Constitutional Court, when asked whether the HSP was unconstitutional, stated that it was operating on the basis of the Croatian constitution. However, in another trial, Dobroslav Paraga was convicted of terrorism. He was replaced in the fall of 1993 by Boris Kandare and Anto Đapić as party chairman of the HSP. Paraga then founded a new party, the Hrvatska stranka prava in 1861 (the number refers to the year the historical HSP was founded).

literature

• Murder like in Sarajevo. Interview. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 39, 1992, p. 246ff.
• Tko je tko u Hrvatskoj. Zagreb 1993, ISBN 953-6168-00-6 . (Croatian, English)
• Tobias Pflüger , Martin Jung: War in Yugoslavia. 2nd Edition. Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-9803269-3-4 , pp. 40f, 70 (footnote 121).
• Robert Stallaerts, Jeannine Laurens: Historical Dictionary of Croatia. Scarecrow Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8108-2999-1 .
• Arno Weckbecker, Frank Hoffmeister: The development of the political parties in the former Yugoslavia. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56336-X , pp. 188f.
• Hannes Hofbauer : Balkan War. Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85371-179-0 , pp. 42, 50.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alex J. Bellamy: The formation of Croatian national identity: a centuries-old dream . Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK 2003, pp. 77 .
2. ↑ Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 1997, pp. 92 .
3. ^ Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten: Looking For Europe - Neo-Folk and Backgrounds. 2007, p. 92.
4. ^ Uwe Backes, Patrick Moreau: The Extreme Right in Europe. 2011, p. 266.
5. ↑ Tobias Pflüger, Martin Jung: War in Yugoslavia: its causes: open borders for weapons, but not for refugees: pacifist perspectives for action . 1994, p. 40 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Arno Weckbecker, Frank Hoffmeister: The development of the political parties in the former Yugoslavia . Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, p. 188 .
7. ↑ Misha Glenny: The Fall of Yugoslavia. Penguin Group, London 1996, p. 195.