The far right's 'accelerated' rise in Croatia

Ultranationalist views are rapidly becoming mainstream in Croatia, observers are warning, as an emboldened far right seeks to rewrite the country's dark World War II-era history.

From an ultra-nationalist singer's massive concert in Zagreb earlier this year to the disruption of a Serb cultural event by masked hooligans in November, the increasing tensions mark a worrying trajectory for the Balkan nation, expert Florian Bieber from the University of Graz in Austria said.

"There is both a rise of historical revisionism and a rise of threats to those who have different views of that past," Bieber said, referring to attempts to rehabilitate the Ustasha, Croatia's pro-Nazi World War II regime.

"None of this is entirely new. But it's accelerated and become more pronounced in the last year tha