Ivica Mlivončić is a controversial Croatia

Croatia

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n author

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 and columnist

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 in Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split.The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time. The paper was later published in various...

 from Split

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. He became unpopular among liberal

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 and left wing circles while working for BH Danas, a weekly newspaper based in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

, due to the fact he publicly attacked his colleagues who were investigating large scope war crimes and ethnic cleansing

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 committed by the Croats

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 on Bosniaks

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 in the light of Karađorđevo meeting during the Bosnian war

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. On the other hand his popularity grew among Croatian nationalists. In his books he defends Croatia

Croatia

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 and instead attacks Bosniaks, British

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 intelligence structures

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, KOS - the counter-intelligence service of the Yugoslav People's Army

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, Iran

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, Al Qaeda and sometimes other Western nations for alleged initiation and/or stimulation of the Croat-Bosniak war

Croat-Bosniak war

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During the ICTY trials against Croat war leaders, many Croatian journalists participated as the defence witnesses trying to relativise war crimes committed by Croatian troops. During the trial against general Tihomir Blaškić

Tihomir Blaškic

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 (later convicted of war crimes on Bosnian Muslims), Ivica Mlivončić, tried to defend general Blaškić presenting number of false claims about alleged "genocide against Croats committed by Bosnian Muslims" in the book "Zločin s pečatom" he wrote, which Trial Chambers described as irrelevant for the case. One of the most obvious examples of war propaganda presented in the book was justification and explanation of the Stupni Do massacre

Stupni Do massacre

The Stupni Do massacre was one of the most brutal massacres committed by Croatian forces on Bosniak civilians during the Croat-Bosniak war in the village of Stupni Do in Vareš municipality. It was committed on October 23, 1993 by Croatian Defense Council units called "Apostoli" and "Maturice" led...

 committed by the Croats on Bosnian Muslim civilians. Ivica Mlivončić described the village of Stupni Do as a stronghold used by elite Bosnian Army troops with significant amount of artillery against Croatian Defence Council

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. However, in the verdict against Dario Kordić

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, ICTY found that Stupni Do was a loosely organised village; with no sign of a military build up, fortification

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 or any sign of artillery

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. It was loosely protected by six Bosnian soldiers.

After Blaškić's conviction, Ivica Mlivončić continued to write in Slobodna Dalmacija against the ICTY presenting it "as the court against Croats", with chauvinistic claims that the ICTY cannot be unbiassed because "it is financed by Saudi Arabia

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 (Muslims)".

In 2007 he published a book about alleged Al Qaeda role during the Bosnian war, a favorite subject by Serbian and Croatian propaganda against Bosniaks.

Croatia Libertas, an organization which supports Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia

Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia

The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia was an unrecognised entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina that existed between 1991 and 1994 during the Bosnian war. It was proclaimed on November 18, 1991 under the name Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, and claimed to be a separate or distinct "political,...

 restoration and separation from Bosnia and Herzegovina, filed lawsuits against several Bosniak politicians and military leaders solely based on Ivica Mlivončić's book "Muslim Concentration Camps for Croats 1991-1995 in BiH". The lawsuits allege that Bosniak officials committed war crimes against 375 Croats held in detention camps. The listed officials include Bosnian Presidency member Haris Silajdžić

Haris Silajdžic

Haris Silajdžić is a Bosnian politician and academic. In the 2006 elections, Silajdžić was elected as the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for four years in the rotating presidency.He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.- Political career:From 1990...

, who served as prime minister when the alleged war crimes took place, and current Defence Minister Selmo Cikotić

Selmo Cikotic

Selmo Cikotić is a politician of Bosnia and Herzegovina, member of the Party of Democratic Action, and former Army officer...

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