ZAGREB, Sept 30 (Hina) - Ahead of an extraordinary assembly of the Croatian Writers' Society (DHK), which should discuss criticism about the organisation and work of the society, the DHK steering committee on Monday addressed the
Croatian public with a statement.
ZAGREB, Sept 30 (Hina) - Ahead of an extraordinary assembly of the
Croatian Writers' Society (DHK), which should discuss criticism
about the organisation and work of the society, the DHK steering
committee on Monday addressed the Croatian public with a statement.
#L#
The steering committee regrets that some members have left the DHK
and does not doubt the legitimacy of their decision, the statement
says.
The steering committee warns about an orchestrated media
distortion of DHK's image which it says has been happening for some
time. It also warns about petty politicking in the labelling of the
DHK as a "closed and retrograde group of people who think alike,
leftists... mediocrities, to the blackness of the last Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ) bunker and galloping fascism".
This only uncovers the habits and handwriting of the authors of
these insinuations and imputations, says the statement.
The editorial boards of seven DHK publications include members who
for years have been the harshest critics and fault-finders of the
HDZ.
The steering committee in the past three years has not once meddled
in the work of those editorial boards, while an organised media
campaign is distorting these facts, knowingly feeding false
information to the public, the statement says.
Working in these editorial boards are Velimir Viskovic, Sibila
Petlevski, Drazen Katunaric, Zarko Pajic, Zdravko Zima, Ivo Zanic,
Branimir Donat, Vlaho Bogisic, Tonko Maroevic...
The statement also says that certain members of the Croatian P.E.N.
Centre frequently criticise the DHK.
(hina) lml sb