{"id":3429,"date":"2025-05-28T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:00:26","slug":"cok-commemorating-80th-anniversary-of-bleiburg-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/cok-commemorating-80th-anniversary-of-bleiburg-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"COK commemorating 80th anniversary of Bleiburg massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 15 May, at 7.00 pm, Mate \u0106uri\u0107, COK general secretary, and I, attended the Po\u010dasni Bleibur\u0161ki Vod Commemorative Academy held in Vijenac hall on Kaptol. This was the occasion at which the Zbornik Me\u0111unarodnog stru\u010dno-znanstvenog simpozija <em>Kultura sje\u0107anja na ratne i poratne \u017ertve Bleibur\u0161ke Tragedije i Kri\u017enoga puta hrvatskog naroda<\/em> (Proceedings of the International Professional and Scientific Symposium: <em>Culture of Remembrance of War and Post-War Victims of the Bleiburg Tragedy and the Way of the Cross of the Croatian People<\/em>) was introduced. My paper, \u201cBleibur\u0161ka tragedija i odgovornost \u2013 mentaliteti i motivi\u201d (The Bleiburg tragedy and responsibility \u2013 mentalities and motives), formed part of that collection.<\/p>\n<h3>Commemorating 80th anniversary of Bleiburg massacre<\/h3>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignleft wp-image-3435\" src=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-180x270.jpg\" alt=\"80th anniversary of Bleiburg massacre\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-180x270.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-230x345.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-350x525.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>On Friday 16 May, we attended the 80th commemoration of Bleiburg in Bleiburg itself. It was my first visit. I was pleased that we were now in the company of my compatriot \u2013 he is both British and Russian \u2013 Count Nikolaj Tolstoy, who suffered so much personally for telling the truth about the behaviour of the British authorities at Bleiburg and Viktring in his book <em>The Minister and the Massacres<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not generally believe in public acts of regret for the sins of our predecessors. It is pointless. Yet it is impossible not to feel shame as well as sorrow for what the British did on this occasion. I felt that shame. I expressed it in an interview on the spot to Croatian television &#8211; while also pointing to the fact this was a crime of Communism. Naturally, blaming Communists for anything in Croatia is too strong for the mainstream media to report. So nothing appeared.<\/p>\n<p>We visited the cemetery and then the Bleiburg memorial at Unter-Loibach, where wreaths were laid and prayers were said. The behaviour of those attending the occasion was quiet, dignified, sad, subdued, unprovocative, and not the slightest bit political.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-3437 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4.jpg\" alt=\"80th anniversary of Bleiburg massacre\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery4-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Unacceptable situation: no crest and no Croatian inscription<\/h3>\n<p>I was, therefore, surprised to find myself facing, within a meter or so, an angry looking, muscle bound, shaven headed, tattoo covered, Austrian policeman, with a sub machine gun slung across his ample girth, glaring back and forth, hoping that one of the elderly Croats might conveniently cause trouble. I then was angered to hear from one of the Croats how he had been fined by the Austrian police 1000 euros on the spot for carrying the \u201cwrong\u201d sort of flag (with the first field white, no \u201cU\u201d, so perfectly respectable and not Usta\u0161a) and trying to place a candle with the same crest at the foot of the memorial. I was also disappointed by what I saw on the memorial itself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-3436 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery3-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only afterwards was I informed about the complicated background, but whatever the rights and wrongs \u2013 and it is still being argued before the court in Austria \u2013 the present situation is unacceptable. There is no crest, no Croatian inscription and even the German inscription has been either deliberately vandalised, or just allowed to deteriorate, so that several letters have fallen off, and not been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>There is a point at which dishonouring the dead must stop. The Austrian authorities are by their behaviour dishonouring Croatia\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards we attended Holy Mass in the beautiful St. Peter and Paul parish church. The celebrant and preacher was Dr \u017deljko Tanji\u0107, Rector of the Croatian Catholic University.<\/p>\n<h3>Presentation of Igor Omerza&#8217;s book: Slovenska UDBA i Po\u010dasni Bleibur\u0161ki vod<\/h3>\n<p>Dinner at Bleiburg was preceded by the presentation by the Slovenian historian and journalist Igor Omerza of his new book, <em>Slovenska UDBA i Po\u010dasni Bleibur\u0161ki vod<\/em> (Slovenian UDBA and Honorary Bleiburg Squadron). Like Omerza\u2019s other books, most of which are unfortunately still only in Slovenian, this is essential reading. It documents the acts of Yugoslav state terrorism and persecution conducted over the years against the PBV and the individuals associated with it \u2013 including the placing of a bomb in 1966 in the Hrust guesthouse where the PBV were to meet for lunch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-3438 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery5-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Formal ceremony at Mirogoj cemetery and mass at Macelj<\/h3>\n<p>On Saturday morning Mate \u0106uri\u0107 and Count Tolstoy attended the formal ceremony remembering the Bleiburg martyrs at Mirogoj cemetery. Then the three of us went to the commemoration and mass at Macelj, the site of the first mass grave \u2013 or more precisely collection of graves \u2013 of those returning on the Kri\u017eni put inside Croatia. The atmosphere here was very different from the tension at Bleiburg. A Memorial Church of the Passion of Jesus (Spomen-crkva Muke Isusove) has been built in 2007 at Donji Macelj\u2013 and outside it, Archbishop Kri\u017ei\u0107 of Split celebrated Holy Mass and preached to a congregation, which included the Prime Minister and other members of the Government, as well as the COK and PBV contingents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-3432 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Commemoration at Macelj\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Macelj_1rszd.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The archbishop stressed the need to continue searching for and identifying the victims of Bleiburg and the Way of the Cross. It is to be hoped that Ministers heard and absorbed the message. Anyone wanting to know more about the Macelj site and the historical background can consult, as I have, the excellent book by Damir Borov\u010dak, <em>U spomen \u017ertvama Macelj 1945.: povodom 70. obljetnice komunisti\u010dkih zlo\u010dina<\/em> (In memory of the victims of Macelj 1945: on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of communist crimes).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-3434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/COK_Bleiburg-gallery1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After returning to Zagreb, the tireless 90-year-old Count Tolstoy delivered a fascinating lecture about his family background and his experiences with the British establishment and judicial system at our COK office in Toma\u0161i\u0107eva 11. Among our guests were historians, senior politicians, the leadership of the PBV, and many others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Author: Robin Harris, the President of <a href=\"https:\/\/cok.hr\/en\">COK<\/a> and author of <a href=\"https:\/\/mvep.gov.hr\/news-106972\/croatian-history-book-by-robin-harris-presented-in-london\/275202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Croatia: A History \u2013 From Revolution to Independence<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 15 May, at 7.00 pm, our board attended the Po\u010dasni Bleibur\u0161ki Vod Commemorative Academy, as well as the 80th commemoration of Bleiburg in Bleiburg itself the following 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