YUGOSLAV RESISTANCE GROUPS

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 12, 1946
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COUNTRY YUgosl via,
SUBJECT Yagoslav Resistance Groups
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12 December 1946
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1. The gethering point of the Zagorsko Kainic3dErizari company is
in the fields of the Zagoria district' Croatia, four kilometers
west of Ivanci village and one kilometer south of Prigorec
village. This gathering point is known only to the population
of Prigorec village, who assist the Krizari by sending them
food and information about the government forces, The
2nd Battalion of the ArtillerxBrigade of the 14th Division,
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area. The commander of thei-n&f.Werlailinki Krikari eompany is
Nikola Dusper, 28-year-o1d law student and former. Ustashi
lieutenant. The leader of the west Kalnicki group, whichworks
with Dusper, is Lt. Klapi Vongradzg 26eyear-old lee student and
former air force lieutenant.
96 The group commanded by Dusper has about 215 active Krizari, armed
with various types of rifles and pistols and with two Breda machine
guns. The group under Poneradz is composed of about 196 active -
Krisari,armed with various weapons including one 95mm, field gun
2nd four machine guns. The most serious problem for these
Krizari groups is their lack of !Wiser rifle ammunition, hand
grenades, and. explosives. They carry out attacks and sabotage an
the main Zagreb-Varazdin and Zagreb-Krizevci-Koprivnica highways,
destroying telephone and telegraph lines and damaging the road
surfaces.
, Between Ludberg and Verezdinski Toplice is Leskovec village, the
residents of which are almost all Krizari.
4. The Krizari hospital is on the Mos/avina mountain near Popovac.
There are also ammunition, food g and clothing depots, and a
weapons repairing Unit. The Moslavacki Krizari territory includes
the Moslavacka moUntain and the northwest part of Bilogora -
about 15,000 square kilometers.
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At the end of July 1946 two leaflets were published and
delivered clandestinely to the populatiol of Zagreb. Both leaf-
lets bore the signature oe t:ae pub1ishin3 authority as the
"Croatian Government in Exile". The firet leaflet carried tbe
names of the ministers of the new Croatian government in exile:
President of the Republic - Dr. Vlatko Macek: Vice-president of
the Republic - Dr. Butkovich; Ministers - Sibe Brcich, Ivan
Meetrovich, Dr. Totbar, Rukavina, Knez, 3tevan Pribicevich,
Tesla r., and Jure KrmpotiaL. The second leaflet carried a
reeolution submitted by tnis f;overnment to the Allies request.
in that the whole of Croatia with Bosnia and Herzegovina be
eeparated trom /Ugoslavia and be placed under the protectorate
or the United 3tate3. The resolution reeteests that the
demands of the Croatian Pant Party leeders be supported by
the United States, EnGlana, and Frenee. It accuses Tito of
being a criminal who caused the death of 750,000 Croats, and
states that 350,000 other Croats have dieeppeared without trace.
Many HSS (Croatian Peasant earty) members were arrested following
the appearance of thee loneaets.
5, The following areas are regerded as centers of illegal Krizari
activity: Bjelovar, Djakovo, all of Slavonia, Papuk, and
qrndila. In these areas liquidation of outspoken OZNA personnel
and the destruction of erunielpal files- cre frequent occurences.
. The secretary of the regional NO0 (People's Liberation Committee)
was killed at Okucani while delivering a speech. At the
beginning of August 1946,a eroup of 24 Krizari broke into the
village of Berak, Vinkovci District, disarmed the local garrison
and kidnapped two government soldiers. 01 this occasion the
Krizari entered the village dressed in e,overnment uniform and
wearinis authorized insignia and emblems.
B. At the beginning of July 1946, Chetniks and Krizari operating
together in Bosnia - snd particularly in Central Bosnia -
captured 20 OZNA personnel. During Augist 1946, Krizari twice
blew up the railway line near Brcko. The Slavonski-Brod-
Sarajevo railway line is a permanent target for frequent
Krizari-Chetnik attacks. In the Gorski Kotar area, especially
in the vicinity of Cabar-Gerovo, trains opereting between
Onulin-Susak aro frequently attacked by "shumars" (men of the
furests) as they are called by the loon). population. In this
area anti-Tito youth are netive in political and religious
?propagenda. Government authorities have been compelled to adopt
special security measures on this line because of the increasing
frequency of attecks. Highway traffic f.ri the area is also
attacked aad anti-Tito elements have sueceeded in capturing fully
loeded trucks on the road. On 19 September on the Rogatec-Vert
etretch, "shumars" attaceed with bombs and submachine Guns a
train carrying physical culture teams, wounding sixty persons
and killing a considerabie number.
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9, In the areas of.' Zagrebacbka Gore and HIvatsMo Zagorje there i
arc mar7 mail Krizari x.T1roilos which have held out
..locess2ul1y liv...th the protection of the local population. F
Resistance personnel in the Kordun and lanja are and ' k
-,:lpecially in the Petrnje, Otachao, and Gorpich areas are F
'principally former Usta!Th.i, At the en& of July and the ,
-beginning of Auzust, Krizari held a series of public meetings
a.t Crolik, Ste.fanje, KrfTinshi Toolice, and Vrbanja,
10. ?eprIsals by the t;overnnent have been orastic. At the i
'aegilainT! of J'Ily, 16 :run f; men connected with the Krizari
were snot at Krap_nski Thplice as reprisal against Xrizari t
?ho had burned the munic_pal files and killed four prominent V
Love int funntionnrie. In 2arajevo and its vicinity,
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_uthorities h,a-re rade s-c,rst lists of proninent Croat
tatioaatints who nre to oe reided as hostages in the event
t=f iicreased K.izari aelY.v!.b7.
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11, Specially or,canizod Corrtirr.st groups of three, called by the k
eooLe 'Frontovski troll-e" (groups of three adherents of the r
!TPALL-ar Front) are very active not only in Croatia but
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throurfnout Yugoslavia, The nission of these groups is that ,
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c)f killing outspoken nationalists in the villages in the same i
manner as Krizari kill eutsooken Communists, During June, r
live dead bodies of proninent oeasants ,,,nd MS leaders of tIle
,Aran Zelina district were found in a forest, At the ,
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beginning of August, three prominent peasants and HSS leaders [
from the Kutin district were found deac. V
12. Because of igee-.eased Kr_zari activity, the Croat Public
Prosecutor sent a conficential circular letter to the People's r
Prosecutors at-:ached to oaca district NOO, pointing out that' ,
in view of the attacks which become more and more frequent
Egaiast milittr.y patrols, nma11 garrison forces, and various
-T:unotionaries, people's autoritlea ahould in the future
lInderteke action againnt transgressors in accord with the
vespolsible mr.itary colcianders in charge of the district.
7teasures taken should In, quick and severe; sentences should be
made it'd carried out innediately." r
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