Ethnic groups in Europe

Czech donation delivered to school for visually impaired

BELGRADE -- The donation of Czech government to the total value of EUR 10,000 was delivered to the Veljko Radmanović school for students with impaired eyesight.

The school is located in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun.

Both prosecution and defence appealed against the nine-year sentence given to Bosnian Croat ex-fighter Zoran Milic, who was convicted of involvement in killing four Bosniaks in Busovaca in 1993.

BELGRADE - The Business Forum Serbia-Czech Republic and bilateral talks between the two countries' businessmen will be held in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) on Wednesday.

The forum will be organized within the official visit of the Czech government and business delegation headed by Czech President Milos Zeman.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta on Monday urged the Croatian government to scrap the provisions of its housing programme that discriminate against 40,000 Serb expellees, adding that the deadline to apply for the programme expires on Monday.

BELGRADE - Deputy Director of the Security Information Agency (BIA) Dragan Markovic submitted on Monday a request to be discharged from the office, BIA confirmed for Tanjug.

Serb entity "has right to self-determination" - PM

BANJA LUKA -- RS Prime Minister Željka Cvijanović has said that the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina "has a right to self-determination."

According to her, "the talk about a referendum, when it comes to the Serb Republic (RS), is not taboo nor is it artificially imposed from time to time."

The Serbian prosecution will investigate a police spokesperson who called on football hooligans to “fight” Belgrade peace group Women in Black after they commemorated wartime killings in Kosovo.

Concerns for Crimean Tatars increase

After boycotting the referendum, Crimean Tatars became open targets for the local militia and Russia as well, experts warn.

Demonstrators hold a combination Ukrainian-Crimean-Tatar flag during a rally at Independence Square in Kiev on March 23rd. [AFP]

BELGRADE - The Coalition of Refugee Associations in the Republic of Serbia said in a release Sunday that it supports the request made by Serbia's agent at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Sasa Obradovic to declare Operation Storm, a 1995 military offensive carried out by the Croatian armed forces, a genocide against the Serbian people.

THE HAGUE - Serbia wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to declare the Croatian armed forces’ 1995 Operation Storm a genocide against the Serbian people and to find Croatia guilty of violating the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.