BELGRADE, Feb 19 (Hina) - Judging by the methods used, the ethnic cleansing of Croats and Hungarians from the Vojvodina village of Hrtkovci in the spring of 1992 was part of an organised police campaign, said the leader of the League
of Vojvodina Social-Democrats and president of the Vojvodina parliament, Nenad Canak.
BELGRADE, Feb 19 (Hina) - Judging by the methods used, the ethnic
cleansing of Croats and Hungarians from the Vojvodina village of
Hrtkovci in the spring of 1992 was part of an organised police
campaign, said the leader of the League of Vojvodina Social-
Democrats and president of the Vojvodina parliament, Nenad Canak.
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Canak repeated that he would testify in the trial of former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic at the U.N. war crimes tribunal: "I
will testify about crimes committed on Vojvodina's territory, and
Milosevic and Seselj know best what they have to do with them".
The news agency Beta reported that Vojvodina Reformists member
Djordje Subotic, who, like Canak, was in Hrtkovci in the spring of
1992, would also testify against Seselj. Subotic said that at a
rally of the Radicals in Hrtkovci on May 6, 1992 Seselj had read out
a list with the names of "undesirable" villagers, after which
Croats and Hungarians started leaving the village.
Last year's census in Vojvodina showed that the number of Hungarian
and Croat residents in the province had decreased by 50,000 and
20,000 respectively compared to the 1991 census. According to the
report of the Helsinki Human Rights Committee in Serbia for 1996,
the ethnic cleansing campaign in Srijem took place from 1991 to
1995, including the villages of Hrtkovci, Surcin, Kukujevci,
Golubinci, Novi Slankamen and Sremski Karlovci.
(hina) rml