2.  secret police organization of Yugoslavia
 founded in 1946 and it seized to exist in the 1990s
following the breakup of Yugoslavia
 the result of OZNA(the Department of National Security)’s
reorganisation

3.  it consisted of four major parts dealing with:
› the state enemy (e.g. Croatian patriotism, nationalism, the
Church)
› emigration (especially the Croatian and Albanian one)
› foreign secret services and tapping

4.  main mission: to pursue and tap people who were
considered a threat for the contemporary regime
 it served as a means of intimidation and terror against
dissidents and critics of the regime
 dissidents were sometimes held in mental institutions for
years, the argument was that “everyone who let oneself
express the critique of the system was sick”

5.  political camp Goli otok on Goli otok, an island in the
Adriatic sea, was established in 1949
 general Stevo Krajačić, the UDBA’s commander for
Croatia, was most responsible for the establishment of the
camp for Yugoslav political prisoners
 the prisoners mostly died trying to escape, or in mining
accidents, from starvation or exhaustion, or they were
beaten to death
 the prison was shut down in 1988 and abandoned a year
later, it has been left to ruin ever since

7.  the island was chosen because it was uninhabited and it
was impossible to escape from
 the prisoners were forced to hard manual labour in a
stone quarry and in a bauxite mine

8.  In their forty five years of activity UDBA’s associates were
collecting information about the so called “enemies of
the people.” Several tens of thousands files are kept
today in the Croatian State Archive. Every citizen can, if
he wishes to, take a look of his file, after a certain
procedure. However, there are only coded names of the
agents who were following them.

9.  in the period from 1946 to 1990 UDBA killed 69 Croatian
dissidents in emigration and 8 are still considered missing
 after the 1970s and the Croatian Spring there were two
assassinations and 24 assassination attempts (victims
suffered from severe or minor physical injuries)