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| Croatian Liberation Movement Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret | |
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| President | Ljubomir Vlašić |
| Founder | Ante Pavelić |
| Founded | 8 June 1956; registered on 9 October 1991 |
| Headquarters | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Membership (2010) | 650 |
| Ideology | Croatian nationalism Euroscepticism Anti-Communism |
| Political position | Far right |
| International affiliation | World League for Freedom and Democracy |
The Croatian Liberation Movement (Template:Lang-hr or HOP) is a far right party originally formed by Croatian emigrants and headed by former leaders of the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Until the 1970s HOP was the biggest Croatian emigrant organization, with more then 80 percent of its members made up from political emigrants who had been active in some way in the political life of the 1941–1945 Independent State of Croatia. Originally led by Ante Pavelić, the former Poglavnik, other signatories of HOP's first foundation charter included former NDH officials such as Džaferbeg Kulenović and Vjekoslav Vrančić. Because of this HOP is widely perceived as a successor of the Ustaša, the WW2 Croatian fascist organisation.
The stated goal of the organization was the re-establishment of the Independent State of Croatia in its WW2 borders, encompassing most of present-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were at the time of HOP's founding both part of SFR Yugoslavia. Although considered to be the most radical Croatian nationalist organization, HOP described itself as an anti-communist organization committed to democratic political means.
After the collapse of communism in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the organization's headquarters were moved from Buenos Aires to Zagreb, and was officially registered as a political party in Croatia in October 1991.
HOP then ran in the 1992 parliamentary election with little success and has remained a marginal political force ever since. Their only other election campaign came six years later for the 2007 election, in which they also fared poorly.
Today, HOP functions as a minor political party in Croatia without holding any seats in the Croatian Parliament or at any other government level. The organization has active branches in Canada (in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver), and Australia (in Melbourne and Sydney).
Legal problems
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The Croatian Liberation Movement was sued for genocide along with the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order in US Federal Court in 1999, the case against the HOP was dismissed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals but reinstated against the Vatican Bank and Franciscans in 2005 for money laundering the Ustasha Treasury.