OSIJEK, Sept 16 (Hina) - The leader of the Croatian Returnees Association, Josip Kompanovic, said on Tuesday he would ask Prime Minister Ivica Racan to receive association officials for talks on "a worrying situation in the Croatian
Danube region".
OSIJEK, Sept 16 (Hina) - The leader of the Croatian Returnees
Association, Josip Kompanovic, said on Tuesday he would ask Prime
Minister Ivica Racan to receive association officials for talks on
"a worrying situation in the Croatian Danube region". #L#
Kompanovic said there was a growing number of "acts of provocation"
in the region, and that Croatian returnees were not feeling safe
despite statements by Interior Minister Sime Lucin.
Following talks with representatives of the Serb community in the
region last week, Lucin said that the security situation in the
region was the same as elsewhere in the country despite some
incidents.
Provocative Serb nationalist graffiti and songs, Chetnik movement
membership cards found in possession of teenagers in Vukovar and a
pamphlet on the terrorism of Bin Laden translated into Serbian
"clearly shows that these are not just cases of juvenile
delinquency, but that someone is instructing them," Kompanovic
told Hina.
Describing the situation as "extremely serious", he said that two
dozen citizens had gathered outside the local government building
in Beli Manastir three weeks ago saying they would take the
situation into their own hands should similar incidents happen
again.
"The most dangerous thing in the whole situation is the fact that
there are large amounts of concealed weapons from military arsenals
in the Danube region, and no one can know when they will be used or
against whom," Kompanovic warned.
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