Editing Milan Šufflay (section)

==Murder==

Members of the regime organisation, Young Yugoslavia, under royal protection, ambushed him at his doorstep in Zagreb and broke his skull with an iron rod, killing him. Then, they broke into his apartment and took the manuscript of the third book of ''Codex albanicus''. There was never any investigation about the criminals. The authorities denied any knowledge of the assailants and banned activities related to Šufflay's funeral.<ref name="EinsteinCroatiaNyTimes">
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[[Albert Einstein]] and [[Heinrich Mann]] sent a letter to the [[International League for Human Rights]] in [[Paris]] appealing to the global cultural public to protest against the murder of Milan Šufflay appealing for protection of Croatian people from the oppression of Yugoslavian regime.
The appeal was addressed to the Paris-based ''[[Ligue des droits de l'homme]]''<ref>[http://francecroatie.free.fr/Histoire/1934.pdf Realite sur l'attentat de Marseille contre le roi Alexandre] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326055101/http://francecroatie.free.fr/Histoire/1934.pdf |date=26 March 2009 }}</ref> (Human Rights League) and made the front page of the ''[[New York Times]]'' on 6 May 1931.
It accused the king of complicity in the crime.<ref name="EinsteinCroatiaNyTimes"/><ref name = RaditchTimes>{{cite news | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A17F63C591B728DDDAA0A94D0405B818FF1D3&scp=4&sq=Sufflay&st=cse | title = Raditch left tale of Yugoslav plot | newspaper = New York Times | date = 23 August 1931 | access-date =6 December 2008 | page = N2 }} [http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/raditch.pdf mirror]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nevadalabor.com/bulletins06a.html |title=Nevada Labor. Yesterday, today and tomorrow |publisher=Nevadalabor.com |access-date=3 September 2012}}</ref><ref>Philip J. Cohen, David Riesman. ''Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History''. Texas A&M University Press, 1996, pp. 10–11.</ref>

In June 1940, in the [[Banovina of Croatia]], a trial was organized for Šufflay's murder.<ref name="Matković-1962"/>

The murderers were the police agents Belošević and Zwerger, who fled to [[Belgrade]]. All later attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless.