BELGRADE, June 20 (Hina) - President of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) Vojislav Stanimirovic today told Belgrade's news agency Beta that the statement made by Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica about Croatia violating
human rights "resounded very positively in Croatia". Declining to give more detailed information about which circles described the statement as positive, the Serb leader in Croatia and MP told Beta this was "the first time that the official Yugoslav government voiced an opinion regarding the violation of Serb human rights in Croatia". Calling Kostunica's statement "encouraging", Stanimirovic said it was also "a signal to Croatia and the international community to pay greater attention to people who were tried more for political reasons and less for true suspicion of them having committed war crimes". Kostunica recently issued a statement in the light of a hunger str
BELGRADE, June 20 (Hina) - President of the Independent Democratic
Serb Party (SDSS) Vojislav Stanimirovic today told Belgrade's news
agency Beta that the statement made by Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica about Croatia violating human rights "resounded very
positively in Croatia".
Declining to give more detailed information about which circles
described the statement as positive, the Serb leader in Croatia and
MP told Beta this was "the first time that the official Yugoslav
government voiced an opinion regarding the violation of Serb human
rights in Croatia".
Calling Kostunica's statement "encouraging", Stanimirovic said it
was also "a signal to Croatia and the international community to pay
greater attention to people who were tried more for political
reasons and less for true suspicion of them having committed war
crimes".
Kostunica recently issued a statement in the light of a hunger
strike of Serb prisoners in Osijek who were imprisoned for war
crimes, stressing "human rights are being violated in Croatia".
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