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CONCERNING THE SO-CALLED REBELLION IN LIKA IN 1932
Todor Stojkov
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The author has attempted to describe the principal events connected with one of the main actions of the extreme Croatian nationalists, using archive documentation and the contemporary press. The action described is the attack of a group of so-called Croatian Ustaši on the gendarmerie station in the Lika village of Brušani in September, 1932. — After the introduction of the Royal Crown's dictatorship in Yugoslavia (January 6, 1929) some of the members of the former Right's Party (Stranka prava) emigrated. They found asylum in revisionist circles of neighbouring countries, mostly in Italy. It was there that the Ustaši organization, under A. Pavelić, was formed in 1930. The goal of this organization was the separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia. Italian government circles held up this action as they themselves had designs on parts of Yugoslavia. After sending individuals to assassinate important members of the regime and attack public buildings, in 1932 the Ustaši leadership decided to try a larger scale action, to attempt to raise a rebellion in Croatia. The discontent of the people, because of the great economic crisis and Croatian national inequality, vas counted on. The Ustaši in emigration managed to gain a foothold in the town of Gospić and in some of the surrounding villages. A certain amount of arms and ten uniformed Ustaši were illegally brought from Zadar. In the night between September 6 and 7, 1932, the gendarmerie station in the village of Brušani vas attacked. The Ustaši counted on that being enough for a wider rebellion to flare up. However, the action failed. Even the attack on the gendarmes themselves vas repulsed. Those who had organized the action fled from Gospić to Zadar. Arrests of all suspected persons and pursuit of the Ustaši started at once. Of the ten Ustaši who had been brought from Zadar one was killed, and the others managed to get back to Zadar. — The action of the Ustaši in Lika worsened the already bad relations between Yugoslavia and Italy and brought the two countries to the brink of war. — In the regime's counter-attack, the goal of which was the discovery of members of the Ustaši organization and the confiscation of hidden arms, many people who had nothing to do with Ustaši aims and actions were arrested and maltreated. As the main organizers of this action were already abroad, having fled there before or right after the attack, it was not until the summer of 1933, after long enquiries, that a few score of those who had participated or collaborated in this Ustaši action were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
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Hrčak ID:
166577
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Datum izdavanja:
1.3.1971.
Posjeta: 1.370 *