1975 Zaliv Scandal

The 1975 "Zaliv affair" was an affair in Titoist Yugoslavia that begun when for the first time after the WW II in 1975 the summary killing of 12,000 Slovene Home Guard war prisoners by the Yugoslav Communist regime, that happened in May and June 1945, was publicly talked about and condemned.

The affair followed after the killings were condemned by Edvard Kocbek in interview that appeared as a special edition of Zaliv journal that was written by two Slovene writers from Trieste, Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, and published in Italy. The interview was titled "Edvard Kocbek: pričevalec našega časa" ("Edvard Kocbek - the Witness of Our Epoch"). It served as a pretext to launch a massive denigration campaign against Kocbek by the state-controlled Yugoslav media. Kocbek, who lived in Yugoslavia, was put under constant communist secret service surveillance until his death in 1981.

Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, who made an interview with Kocbek, were banned from entering Titoist Yugoslavia for several years and were only able to enter it to attend Kocbek's funeral.