Thread by @SamBeharic

It is extremely disturbing to read about the the current state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of #Croatia, Zdravka Bušić taking part in #terrorist training and posing with fascist insignia in USA during the 1970s.

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The photos of Zdravka Bušić and her friend Mercedes Škegro posing with guns and #Croat fascist insignia were taken by journalist Nikola Majstrović.

In 1977, he was tasked to make a documentary featuring Croat emigrants in USA, titled "The #Croats: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters"

During the 1970s, Zdravka Bušić was a member of the Croatian National Resistance (HNO), a fascist #Ustaša organization founded by Maks Luburić, a Croat fascist who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of #Croatia (NDH) during much of the WWII.

Both her brother Zvonko Bušić and her husband Vinko Logarušić were members of the same fascist group, HNO and US-convicted terrorists.

Zdravka's brother Zvonko Bušić was sentenced for life for hijacking a plane and killing a police officer in New York in 1976.

In 1982, Zdravka Bušić's husband Vinko Logarušić was sentenced to 20 years in prison together with five other HNO members for series of terror attacks.

@nytimes covered the case stressing it was "one of the rare cases in which the key actors of a terrorist group were sentenced."

@nytimes After the dissolution of #Yugoslavia, all three members of the Croat fascist group HNO returned to Croatia.

One of them, Zdravka Bušić became a very close aid of Croatia's president @KolindaGK and the current state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of #Croatia.

@nytimes @KolindaGK It's pretty striking to see self-declared Croat fascists working hand in hand with today's political leadership in #Croatia.

Isn't it hypocritical that Bušić enjoys CRO president's full support in time when @KolindaGK spreads false claims about thousands of terrorists in Bosnia?

@nytimes @KolindaGK Zdravka Bušić, the girl on the left, was not only a member of a Croat fascist movement.

Following #Croatia's EU accession, she served as an MEP between 2013 and 2014.

Today, she serves as the state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia: mvep.hr/hr/ministarstv…