ORGANISERS CANCEL CROATIAN FOLK SINGER CONCERT
Croatian folk singer MARKO PERKOVIC THOMPSON’s concert tomorrow (10May07) has been cancelled over security fears.
The singer, who has become an icon for Croat nationalists in both Croatia and Bosnia, was due to play in Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina - but the city’s authorities, Jewish, anti-fascist and Muslim war veterans associations have protested against the planned show.
They accuse the singer of flirting with the ideology of Croatia’s World War Two Nazi-allied Ustashe regime, which was responsible for the deaths of many Serbs and Jews.
Thompson has hit back at the charges, saying, "I am sorry that a lynch-mob atmosphere has been created in Sarajevo."
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