Serbs of Croatia
Savaging of Serb Leader Highlights Croatia’s Nationalism Problem
A series of warnings about the rise of intolerance against ethnic minorities, hate speech and historical revisionism in Croatian society have attracted very little or no public attention - except one, from Croatian Serb leader Milorad Pupovac, which has been causing controversy for over a month.
"I am neither a Chetnik, nor secret collaborator of Serbian authorities"
Milorad Pupovac had read a statement in which he said that since August 23, when the last press conference was held with regards to the series of attacks on the Serbs, his concern for the rise of hatred towards the Serbs in Croatia annoyed lots of people.
Ethnic Hatred and Violence Will Undermine Croatian Society
"These are individuals, perhaps organised, but they are not the fruit of some climate in society, they are deviations that need to be dealt with based on individual responsibility," Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Wednesday.
Plenkovic added that the government "won't be sucked into a spiral of hate".
Serbian State Security ‘Didn’t Help Rebel Croatian Serbs’
A protected witness told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that the Serbian State Security Service (SDB) was not involved in the so-called 'Log Revolution' that saw Serbs rebel against the Croatian authorities in 1990.
Croatian Serbs Attacked by Masked Assailants in Two Bars
Croatian Serb leaders condemned on Thursday two attacks by masked assailants on local Serbs watching a televised football match near the town of Knin.
The Serbs in the villages of Uzdolje and Djevrske were watching a game involving Red Star from the Serbian capital Belgrade when the attackers burst into the bars, media reports said. Five, including a minor, were lightly injured.
Witness Denies Serbian SDB Behind Rebel Camp in Croatia
A defence witness in the war crimes retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic said on Tuesday that the State Security Service, SDB, that they led was not involved in establishing a training camp in a Serb breakaway statelet in Croatia in 1991.
Croatian Schoolbooks Teach ‘One-Sided History’ of Wartime Victory
On August 5, Croatia marks its Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders with an annual celebration in the southern town of Knin.
Croats, Serbs Come Together to Remember ‘Storm’ Victims
With flags hoisted on homes and public buildings, and a well-rehearsed official ceremony, Croatia is readying to celebrate the 24th anniversary of a military offensive that snuffed out a rebel Serb statelet and ended Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence from socialist Yugoslavia.
Croatian President Backs Delay to Extended Rights for Vukovar Serbs
Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic said on Thursday that she supports Vukovar's mayor, Ivan Penava, who has claimed that the extension of Serb minority rights in the town would harm ethnic relations - despite a Constitutional Court ruling saying this must be done soon.
Court Decrees More Rights for Serbs in Croatia’s Vukovar
The president of Croatian Constitutional Court, Miroslav Separovic, announced on Friday that the court had decided that the use of the Serbian language and Cyrillic script for official purposes in the Croatian town of Vukovar should be extended.