VOJNIC MUNICIPALITY HEAD CONDEMNS HOSTILE GRAFFITI

VOJNIC, Aug 14 (Hina) - The head of the central municipality of Vojnic, near Karlovac, has strongly condemned the recent appearance of hostile graffiti written in the Cyrillic script on some facilities in a World War II memorial park at Vojnic. #L# "Messages like 'Serbia from Zagreb to Tokyo, 'Krajina, Sremski Karlovci', 'Draza lives', 'Serbia to the Serbs' and 'Long live Ratko Mladic' are not welcome in Vojnic and we condemn them. The message mentioning Sremski Karlovci, where a rally was recently held, indicates that Serbs from Serbia want to create our own policy, but that will not pass in Vojnic. That's not our policy. If this was written by people of our ethnic origin, then I am ashamed of them," Branko Eremic said. The police in Karlovac said they were looking for unidentified perpetrators who, between 9 and 13 August, using a piece of charcoal, wrote insulting graffiti in Cyrillic on the inside wall of a former restaurant in the Petrova Gora memorial park. The police are also looking for persons who between 9 and 12 August removed screws from a pole in a local museum to the Homeland War in the Karlovac neighbourhood of Turanj, as a result of which a Croatian flag fell down. The Karlovac County branch of the Democratic Centre party condemned the incidents yesterday, and the county branch of the Association of Returnees and Settlers did so today. (hina) rml