BELGRADE, May 6 (Hina) - Ten years have passed today since non-Serbs were expelled from Hrtkovci, a village in the northern Yugoslav province of Vojvodina, the Vojvodina Reformists said in a statement on Monday, voicing hope a time
like that would not happen again and that "the inspirers of evil will be punished."
BELGRADE, May 6 (Hina) - Ten years have passed today since non-Serbs
were expelled from Hrtkovci, a village in the northern Yugoslav
province of Vojvodina, the Vojvodina Reformists said in a statement
on Monday, voicing hope a time like that would not happen again and
that "the inspirers of evil will be punished." #L#
"Ten years ago in Hrtkovci, in the presence of the self-proclaimed
duke Vojislav Seselj, the expulsion of non-Serb citizens from the
multinational Vojvodina" acquired official status, said the
statement signed by leader Miodrag Isakov.
On May 6, 1992, the president of the Hrtkovci local community,
Ostoja Sibincic, read out a list of "unsuitable" citizens of Croat
nationality who, under threats, were forced to move out. The
threats ensued, the parish priest was harassed, and Mijat Stefanec,
a local resident, was found dead, the Vojvodina Reformists recall.
Hrtkovci remain synonymous with the expulsion of Croats from the
Srijem region, the statement said, recalling that similar events
took place in Slankamen and Golubinci prior to that. "Some other
people live in these Srijem villages today, people whom trouble and
nationalist madness expelled from their homes too," the statement
read.
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