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How Operation Phoenix exported violence from Australia to Yugoslavia

  • Written by Alexander Mitchell Lee, PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
How Operation Phoenix exported violence from Australia to YugoslaviaThe ill-fated nineteen: the only known photo of the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood members who went to Yugoslavia in 1972.Wikimedia

Fifty years ago this month, in June 1972, Yugoslavia’s Territorial Defence Force was desperately trying to contain and kill militants associated with the Australian-based Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood.

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