Anti-Serb sentiment

After an incident on Sunday, Orthodox Easter, in the village of Borovo in eastern Croatia, when a group of men chanted anti-Serbian songs, Croatian police announced that they will charge the suspects.

Police on Monday said that they had arrested 14 men from the Vukovar-Srijem County "on suspicion of … public incitement to violence and hatred".

A media foundation named after a murdered journalist has accused MPs from the ruling party of creating a lynch-like atmosphere towards anyone who dares to criticise the government.

Visiting Montenegro this month for the funeral of a senior Serbian Orthodox bishop, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stopped by the 'Serbian House' in Podgorica, founded in 2017 and opened in 2019 to promote Serbian science and culture in a country where 30 per cent of people identify as Serb.

The Croatian website Lupiga has published video footage of a group of final year high school students from Zagreb shouting "For home ready!" ("Za dom spremni").

This was a greeting used by the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) - a WW2 Nazi-allied entity that operated death camps for Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

The first class in schools across Serbia today was dedicated to the March 17, 2004 anti-Serb violence in Kosovo, known in Serbia as "the March pogrom."

On the anniversary of the start of the riots, ministers of education and labor Mladen Sarcevic and Aleksandar Vulin visited the Petar Petrovic Njegos elementary in Belgrade and spoke with eighth grade students there.

A graffiti in Croatian reading "For home ready" along with pro-Ustasha emblems has been painted on a Serbian Orthodox church in the Croatian town of Sinj.

This was announced on Tuesday by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC).

The government of the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, has decided to suspend all contacts with High Representative Valentin Inzko.

This came after Inzko compared the marking of RS Day on January 9 to the establishment of the WW2-Nazi allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH), that ran death camps where mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma occurred.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic is not satisfied with the political climate emerging in the region, in particular in Croatia, and notes that Serbia is in no way contributing to the deterioration of its relations with the country.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Dacic expressed the hope that trust among the countries in the region would strengthen in the years to come.

A Croatian medical team has made positive identifications of the remains of 20 Serbs who were killed during the war in Croatia in the 1990s.

BELGRADE - Fans of the Kosovan football team marked its first competitive international by joining with Croatian fans to voice their mutual hate of Serbs.

The Football Associations of Croatia and Kosovo are set to face action from FIFA after their fans shouted fascist slogans and anti-Serb hate speech during their World Cup qualifying match on Thursday.