Abstract:The paper investigates war veterans as organisers of contentious politics in post-war Croatia, by looking into two significant protests. Already amid the1990s War in Croatia, the first veteran associations were tied to the army or governing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). After the HDZ government ignored their demands in 1996, the main association gathering disabled veterans announced a protest, shocking the regime. After defusing the situation by meeting most of veteran demands, the protest against the… Show more
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