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=Croatian Liberation Movement= Croatian Liberation Movement (Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret or HOP) was an exiled Ustaše terrorist group formed in Argentina in 1956. Today reduced to a marginal right-wing party registered in Croatia.

Roots and establishment
Croatian Liberation Movement was established by the Croatian Ustaše leader in exile, Ante Pavelić in Buenos Aires in 1956. The goal of this group was to preserve and control original Ustaše organization. Exiled Pavelić and his Ustaše were that time under protection of Argentina's dictator Juan Peron. . A prominent role in HOP, with the aim of keeping Ustaše ideals and infrastructure intact, had Pavelić's daughter Višnja. In their writings and proclamations, the exiled Ustaše tried to clear of any blame the Ustaše regime stressing the resistance of the movement to existence of Yugoslavia. Their writings compared Ustaše to the French and American revolutionaries of 18 and 19 centuries. Ustaše main goals were described as defense of Croatia against Serbian aggression and against international Communism. When Peron lost power, Israeli attempted to force Argentina to extradite Pavelić. Lacking Peron's protection, after a failed attempt to assassinate him in 1957, Pavelić and his family moved via Chile to Spain, where he got protection of General Franco. Pavelić died on 28 December 1959, at the German hospital in Madrid.

USA and Canada Activities
After Pavelić's death, his son-in-law Srečko Pšeničnik took over HOP and in 1960, moved its operations from Buenos Aires to Toronto, Canada. HOP newspaper, called Independent State of Croatia, continued to publish agitations for the downfall of Communist Yugoslavia.

Nine members of this organization were involved in the terrorist attacks in Yugoslavia, arrested there and were, on June 25 1964, sentenced to longer prison terms.

The head of US HOP chapter was Stjepan Hefer, minister of agriculture and food of the Ustaše Independent State of Croatia. After his death, another Ustaše high ranked official, Anton Bonifačić took over the HOP leadership. Bonifačić was a head of cultural affair of the Foriegn Ministry in the Ustaše regime. Bonifačić posed in public as a writer and an anti-communist, giving speeches and passing resolutions on the continuing struggle for the Independent State of Croatia. . Bonifačić's presidency lasted from October 1975 through July 1981.

Activities in Australia and Oceania
The HOP established their chapter in 1963 in Australia. The appointed head of this chapter was Ustaše Srećko Rover, who emigrated to Australia in 1948. Later, in 1972, Rover was elected vice-chairman of another terrorist organization, HNO (Croatian National Resistance).

Stjepan Hefer, then officially Pavelić's successor, reorganized this HOP chapter in 1967. Hefer was the head of this chapter until his death in 1973.

Starting with 1966, and within the next several years, the HOP carried out a series of assassinations and attacks on Yugoslav diplomat missions and the airline office. Their terrorist activities on the Australian soil and recorded military exercises with the Australian Army's Citizens Military Forces (CMF) prompted Australian senator from Tasmania, O'Byrne, to start action against HOP before the Australian Parliament which was controlled by Australian Liberal Party. Many of the HOP members were members of the Australian Liberal Party that time. This party membership along with the Cold War atmosphere provided a smoke screen behind this group carried their terrorist activities in early 1970-ies. When the Australian Democratic Labour Party came to the power in 1972, Australian Attorney-General approved the wire-tapping of suspected terrorist leaders such as Srećko Rover and Fabian Lovoković - the head of the HOP in Australia. For terrorist training purposes HOP used an Australian army Wodonga camp in the Victoria state.

HOP after Dissolution of Yugoslavia
The Croatian Liberation Movement, along with the Croatian National Resistance, kindled fantasies of a resurgent neo-fascist state, well into 1980s. These two movements, fiercely bitter and screaming for revenge, infiltrated the benevolent societies and cultural clubs of the Croatian immigrants.

The same organization will be mentioned in the renown Alperin vs. Vatican Bank case before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The Holocaust Survivors claim that the Vatican Bank, the Order of Friars Minor, and the Croatian Liberation Movement were complicit in and profited from crimes committed during World War II by the Ustaše. The district court dismissed the claims (2003) against the Croatian Liberation Movement for lack of personal jurisdiction. This dismissal was upheld by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2005).

During the Yugoslavia dissolution, in the early 1990s, this organization moved to Zagreb, Croatia, where it was officially registered as a political party in Croatia in 1991.

This a far right and openly pro-Ustaše party is a marginal political party in Croatia. It came into public limelight for paying a requiem mass for the Ustaše leader Pavelić in the Church of Saint Dominic in Split, in 1997.