the Netherlands in 2003. Thompson became popular with their 1991 hit song "Bojna Čavoglave", which was released during the Croatian War of Independence. The song depicts a battle involving a battalion of Croatian soldiers from Čavoglave, a village in the Dalmatian rural hinterland (and Perković's birthplace). The song opens with the WW2-era nazi Ustaše salute Za dom spremni (Ready for the homeland). In 2007, the Anti Defamation League reported that many of the Thompson concert attendees, who were primarily young people, wore clothing with Ustashe symbols and carried banners with "anti-Serb, anti-semitic and anti-Roma rhetoric". They performed Nazi salutes in response to the band's "traditional “war cry” of the Ustashe" done at the beginning of the concert. Ustashe material was also allegedly sold at venues. During the Croatian War of Independence, the band performed Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara, which aggrandizes genocide against Serbs, Jews and Roma committed by the Ustaše at the Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška concentration camps. Banned performances In 2003, the band was barred from having a concert in Amsterdam. Regarding the cancellation of the concert, Perkovic allegedly told a Croatian newspaper, "It is all to blame on the Jews. I have nothing against them and I did nothing to them. I know that Jesus Christ also did nothing against them, but still they hanged him on the cross. So what can I expect as a small man?". Two weeks after the concert in Zagreb on 17 June 2007, Perković made this statement regarding claims by the Simon Wiesenthal Center that he is a fascist: "Me and members of my band saw nobody with Ustaša iconography among 60 and more thousand people on Maksimir." The performance included the use of Ustaše slogans. At Thompson's Zagreb concert for the Day of Defenders, a group of youths was heard chanting "Ubi Srbina" ("Kill the Serb"), according to some Croatian media sources. The most discussed concert was the first ever banned in Croatia, in the Istrian town of Umag. After this ban, Thompson asked for permission to hold a concert in Pula, Istria's most populous city. When this was denied, the band initiated and lost court actions against the city of Pula for "human rights violations". After the court decision, the band's lawyer declared that sooner or later Thompson would perform in Pula. In late December 2008, he managed to secure permission to organize a concert in Pazin, despite fierce opposition