12/3/2013 Coalition of refugees: Danger threatens Serbs in Croatia

BELGRADE - If the European Union does not condemn the anti-Serb campaign and glorification of the Ustasha movement, Croatian fascists, who committed genocide against Serbs during World War II, the remaining Serbs in Croatia could be in jeopardy and faced with a danger of a new exodus, the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia has noted.

The coalition reacted to the new chants of the audience at a football match between Dinamo from Zagreb and Hajduk from Split, during which sports fans of both clubs shouted the infamous Ustasha salute "For homeland - ready!".

The Coalition is shocked at the fact that the EU has remained silent for three months, and does not deem it necessary to condemn the anti-Serb campaign against the official use of the Serbian, Cyrillic script and glorification of the Ustasha movement in Croatia, and thus send a clear signal that such things are unacceptable.

"If the EU does not do that soon, there is a danger that individuals and groups will take the things in their own hands and start putting the remaining Serbs at risk physically and massively, so as to expel them from Croatia," said the Coalition that brings together the refugee associations of the Serbs who fled Croatia during the 1991-1995 civil war.

"Eighteen years following the war, the pro-Ustasha hysteria is spreading more and more, it becomes a normal thing in the Croatian society and dominant phenomenon bringing together various social groups," the coalition noted.

The Coalition is also nonplussed at the fact that no Croatian institution has clearly and unambiguously condemned the glorification of the Ustasha ideology after November 19, when Croatia's football player Josip Simunic took a microphone after the match with Iceland and chanted the Ustasha salute at the Maksimir stadium in Zagreb, and urged the relevant state bodies to press criminal charges against all those doing that.

The question arises, if the mentioned Croatian institutions stay silent, whether that means that they are afraid of condemning the glorification of the Ustasha ideology, as they represent a minority in the Croatian society or they silently back this, reads the release issued by the Coalition.

This also poses a question as to whether Croatia is a democratic country in which there is the rule of law, if it does not adhere to the Constitution which clearly states that any call for national, religious or racial hatred or any other form of intolerance is forbidden and punishable.

Source: TANJUG

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Police Minister in the Tudjman Government: the Serbs were attacked first! The Borovo Selo was attacked to provoke a war!

Dec 27, 2013

Serbs were attacked first. Yugoslavia was attacked and not Croatia. Susak, Glavas and Vice Vukojevic attacked Borovo Selo to provoke a war", says Boljkovac in an exclusive interview for "Dnevni List, Vesti" which is intended for Serb readers living in Germany.

Josip Boljkovac, Minister of Police in Tudjmans administration speaks of how Croatia planned and attacked Serbs in Croatia with intention to provoke a war. Boljkovac claims that Tudjman and Milosevic through out the entire war were having talks and made agreements with eachother, and made decisions together.

Glavas was accusing me during the testimony of stalking him for the destruction of the bridge over the river Drava in Osijek.  He said that he destroyed the bridge in order to protect the city from the JNA (Jugoslav National Army) tanks, and I said that the JNA at the time was a regular army of an internationally recognised state (Jugoslavia) and that Croatia, which had not yet been recognised,  a part of that Jugoslavia, " said Boljkovac, adding that his testimony at the Glavas trial was censored.

On the reporters question about who started the war, Boljkovac surprisingly answers,"Serbs were attacked first, Jugoslavia was attacked and not Croatia! Susak, Glavas and Vice Vukojevic attacked Borovo Selo in order to provoke a war,"

Boljkovac beleives that the war continued according to plans between Milosevic and Tudjman to split up Bosnia between them. And to exchange the population in those areas with ethnic cleansing. Tudjman woulld give up Bosanska Posavina to Milosevic and Milosevic woulld help Tudjman to rid the Serbs in Krajina.

Boljkovac claims to have material evidence that the former General of JNA and later General in The Croatian Army, Milivoj Petkovic organised withdrawal of Croats from Bosanska Posavina.

On the question from the reporter from the Frankfurt "Vesti" about any possible evidence of agreements between Milosevic and Tudjman,

Boljkovac answers that one time when he ordered the arrest of the murders of the chief of police in Osijek,  Josip Reihl Kir, Tudjman had said that even Milosevic thinks that he shoulldnt be head of the MUP. As more evidence he says that Tudjmans close collaborator, Hrvoje Sarinic has been visiting Milosevic at least 40 times during the war.

further on, he accuses Tudjman of wanting a war at any cost and according to Tudjmans ideas, the Serbs had to dissapear from Croatia, and the murder of Josip Kir was ordered by the very top of the government.

Boljkovac adds that 1991 before a single shot was fired, the families of prominent Croatian politicians had plans set up to escape. Amongst these were high positioned HDZ-members and also the former Croatian President Stipe Mesic.

Translation by Den Galna Serben.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013 | 12:36
"Ongoing campaign against Serbs in Croatia"

SOURCE: BLIC
ZAGREB -- Cyrillic is being proclaimed "the script of an aggressor," while Serbs in Croatia are accused of falsely registering during the census, says Milorad Pupovac.
(Wonder what sort of false registration that is considered here... Considering the FACT that there are 400 000 less SERBS in Croatia today then there were in 1991... (!) note by Den Galna Serben)



In an interview for the Belgrade-based Blic newspaper, the leader of the Autonomous Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) added that "although some are assuring us that there was no campaign against the Serbs or the Cyrillic script in Croatia, too much has been said to confirm that such a campaign is being lead."

Pupovac is coming to Belgrade to participate in a meeting organized by the Institute for Language of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). He is expected to speak about language ideologies, politics and intolerance in "the post-Yugoslav countries," the daily said. 

"After the meeting between (Croatian) Prime Minister Zoran Milanović with representatives of the defenders organized as leaders of a campaign against Cyrillic, and after withdrawal of the police, the situation has been somewhat more peaceful in spite of the removal of two plates in two scripts (Latin and Cyrillic). As regards a compromise, I can say there is room for it, but everyone should contribute," Pupovac was quoted as saying, and adding: 

"It is always forgotten in this campaign that the citizens of Vukovar of Serb nationality were also killed or suffered. The atmosphere that is being created now is such that war will be more important than peace." 

Pupovac welcomed the recent meeting between the two countries' presidents, and said it was "good because it has the symbolic power even when there are no other effects. I do not know if it was historical." 

Speaking about the genocide lawsuits that Croatia and Serbia filed against one another before the International Court of Justice, he said that "political strength and consensus" were necessary in other to make a deal on the status of the lawsuits, but that this was "missing in Croatia at the moment."


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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2013&mm=10&dd=28&nav_id=88140
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OCTOBER 25, 2013 | 15:29
Anti-Cyrillic sentiment in Croatia "dates back to WW2"

SOURCE: BETA, TANJUG
ZAGREB -- The Croatian weekly Novosti has published an announcement issued by the Croatian Ustasha regime, banning the use of the Cyrillic alphabet.

The ban was enforced in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) - a fascist WW2 entity that operated Jasenovac and other death camps, places of mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

The weekly decided to print the historic document at the peak of an anti-Cyrillic campaign in Croatia, conducted by right-wingers who oppose a law that grants ethnic minorities the right to use their own language and script - in the case of Serbs, Cyrillic - in those areas where they constitute more than a third of the population. 

The article noted that "the fight against the script of a minority is not the original idea of Tomislav Josić and his HQ for the Defense of Croatian Vukovar." 

The 1941 decree banned Cyrillic "in the entire territory of the NDH," and said this was in particular valid for "the business of state and self-government bodies, offices of public institutions, trade and similar books, correspondence, and all public inscriptions." 

Reports from Vukovar on Friday said that another bilingual sign written in both Croatian and Serbian had been removed, this time from a court building. 

Since the signs were put up in September they were removed on several occasions, while the police was placed in front of the building for a while to guard them. 

But Croatian PM Zoran Milanović and the group organizing the protests, "the HQ for the Defense of Croatian Vukovar," met last week and agreed that the police should be withdrawn. 

After the meeting, Milanović said that the signs would remain in place "since the law must be respected" - but that the police would no longer guard them, and that it was "up to everybody's consciousness and sense of responsibility (to decide) how to behave." 

A new meeting is expected to take place next week.

Source.......
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2013&mm=10&dd=25&nav_id=88127

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Nationalist outbursts in Croatia are not isolated incidents

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Serb National Council (SNV) in Croatia Milorad Pupovac has said that nationalist outbursts and attacks on non-Croat individuals in Croatia are not isolated incidents and cautioned that they should not be ignored.
Pupovac told Tanjug that the “campaign against civil and European values and minority rights of the Serbs” is a dangerous game because it has elements reminiscent of the 1990’s (when armed clashes broke out in Croatia).
“This is a dangerous trend led by various institutions in Croatia, part of the Catholic clergy, part of non-governmental organizations close to them, part of the Croatian war veterans' associations and the extreme right-wing political parties,” Pupovac said commenting on the recently frequently occurring incidents glorifying extreme nationalism and fascism in Croatia.

Pupovac met with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Finance Minister Lazar Krstic and Minister of Regional Development and Local Self-Government Igor Mirovic in Belgrade on Tuesday.
The SNV chairman said that they discussed ways “to improve the position of the Serbs in Croatia in the wake of the negative trends while taking care not to worsen relations between Serbia and Croatia” and ways to assist returns of Serb refugees.

A campaign against official use of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in Vukovar and other cities in Croatia has been ongoing for three months now, and signatures are being collected for a referendum aimed at limiting the putting up of bilingual signs to the municipalities where minorities make up at least 50 percent of the population, instead of one third as required by the law currently in force.

In the protests against the use of the bilingual signs, Croat extremists and war veterans are tearing down and smashing to pieces signs containing names of institutions in the Cyrillic script, and as of lately, chantings of "Za dom spremni" (For homeland - ready!), a Croatian Ustasha greeting from the time of the Nazi Independent State of Croatia (NDH), during which horrible genocidal crimes were being committed against Serbs, have become increasingly frequent.

Zagreb-based website Index.hr has said that the director and employees of the Jasenovac Memorial Park (dedicated to the memories of the victims in the World War II Ustasha concentration camp), who have condemned statements and acts extolling the NDH and the shoutings of the Ustasha greeting on December 1, have received threats containing accusations that they are traitors with anti-Croat sentiments.
On December 3, Croatian Minister of Education, Science and Sports Zeljko Jovanovic received threatening messages, containing an Ustasha-styled anti-Serb phrase “da mu se zatre srspko sjeme i pleme” (Let his Serb seed and tribe be exterminated).

Pupovac told Radio television of Serbia (RTS) on Wednesday that it is very unpleasant to hear the anti-Serb shouts that can be heard on television, radio and in the streets.
He stressed that the Serb people in Croatia would be pleased if the European Union could see “that which it has to see, and that is the abuse of provisions in the treaty of Croatia’s accession to the EU.”

Source........ TANJUG

Authorities identify remains of 18 Serb victims

BELGRADE - The Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology of the Zagreb Faculty of Medicine identified on Monday the remains of 18 Serb victims killed during the armed conflicts in the territory of Croatia, former Yugoslavia, in 1995, the Serbian government Commission for Missing Persons released.

This constitutes the continuation of the identification of victims killed in Operation Flash and Operation Storm performed by the Croatian army and police.

The remains were exhumed in Rajic, Medari, Sibenik, Zadar, Vrlica and Gracac, and they were identified by means of DNA analysis. The burial will be carried out in keeping with the families' wishes, the Commission for Missing Persons released.

The identification of victims bears special importance for the families who have been trying to find and bury their loved ones with all due honours for years on end.


Photo Tanjug, R. Prelic (archive, illustration)


Source: Tanjug

Threats to employees in "Jasenovac" (Source Tanjug)

Zagreb - The director of the Jasenovac Memorial Park Natasa Jovicic and employees this morning, after having condemned the nationalist outbursts in Croatia, received email threats.

In the email there were picture of bullets and an anonymous message with which they were called anti Croats and traitors , conveyed the Zagreb portal Index.hr .

" It's an open invitation to liquidate not only us but also for all who think like us. Such as the government , the president of the republic and most of the political parties," said Hina Jovicic .

In addition to the director, also all four curators of the memorial area as well as the head of economy received the threats.

Also on the official address a mail arrived signed by the leader of the Croatian Pure Party of rights (HCSP) Josip Miljko, in which it says: “You are spreading the Chetnik propaganda”, " People such as you are only remnants of corruption in the Croatian national tissue and are condemned to extinction and madness in which you  are lead by sick and insane hatred ," was the electronic message with Miljko`s signature and the Ustasha salute " Za dom spremni."

Employees at Jasenovac Memorial have reported the threats to the police, and also to Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and other relevant institutions .

The police , it is alleged , is conducting an investigation .

Jasenovac Memorial was built on the territory of the former concentration camp from World War II. There is also an educational center aimed at pointing out the necessity of respect for differences among people
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