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War crimes of the Independent State of Croatia

  • UstašeIn 1927, Ante Pavelić, a lawyer and politician from Zagreb, secretly contacted Benito Mussolini to present his vision for an independent Greater Croatia.
  • Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of CroatiaIn 1928, a Montenegrin Serb deputy named Puniša Račić shot Croatian Peasant Party leader Stjepan Radić in the parliamentary chamber of Zagreb.