HEADQUARTERS: PARLIAMENT CONCLUSIONS - SHAMEFUL ACT

SPLIT, Feb 9 (Hina) - The Main Headquarters for the Protection of the Dignity of the Homeland War told reporters on Friday the suggestion by the parliamentary benches of the ruling six-party coalition, Primorje-Gorski Kotar Alliance/Slavonija-Baranja Croatian Party and national minorities that the government submit a report on "the organisers of activities aimed at toppling the constitutional order and democratically elected authorities" was a shameful act. The ruling oligarchy wants to abolish the civil right to protest and demonstrate civil disobedience and identifies attacks on the authorities with an attack against the state, the association's president Mirko Condic said. Hiding behind the power authority grants them, they are threatening investigations, arrests and incarceration of those who have stood up for the dignity and freedom of Mirko Norac, soldiers and the Croat people, Condic claims. Condic's deputy Luka Podrug said the draft conclusions were based on today's speech by Prime Minister Racan, which he said was an open, direct threat and "call for arrests." "The Headquarters does not want to carry out any coup d'etat but will start gathering signatures for a referendum on confidence in such authority," he said. Condic and Podrug believe the police and army are on the side of war veterans. Speaking about a rally which war veterans' associations plan to hold in Split on Sunday, Condic and Podrug said it would not be possible to ban the meeting because they "would not respect any ban". Attending the Split rally will be 15 generals and Miroslav Tudjman, they said, announcing another rally in Kastel Stari for tomorrow. (hina) rml