BELI MANASTIR, June 23 (Hina) - The chairman of the assembly of the association of Croatian Serb displaced persons and returnees, Jovan Vlajkovic, on Friday tendered his resignation, because he has to move out of a flat where he is
temporarily living. According to a statement given to the media, he offered his resignation as an act in which he expresses "dissatisfaction, his own inability and deep disagreement with a discriminatory policy in the implementation of the Return Programme." Vlajkovic has decided to make such a move, as he said, when "he and his family are being exposed to the organised and co-ordinated pressure, which culminated yesterday (June 22) with an attempt to evict my family from a flat in which we have been staying temporarily since 1996." Vlajkovic claimed that the housing committee in the eastern Croatian town of Beli Manastir had issued numerous decisions in the last several
BELI MANASTIR, June 23 (Hina) - The chairman of the assembly of the
association of Croatian Serb displaced persons and returnees,
Jovan Vlajkovic, on Friday tendered his resignation, because he has
to move out of a flat where he is temporarily living.
According to a statement given to the media, he offered his
resignation as an act in which he expresses "dissatisfaction, his
own inability and deep disagreement with a discriminatory policy in
the implementation of the Return Programme."
Vlajkovic has decided to make such a move, as he said, when "he and
his family are being exposed to the organised and co-ordinated
pressure, which culminated yesterday (June 22) with an attempt to
evict my family from a flat in which we have been staying
temporarily since 1996."
Vlajkovic claimed that the housing committee in the eastern
Croatian town of Beli Manastir had issued numerous decisions in the
last several days, under which "the remaining Serbs are being
evicted from their temporary lodgings."
In these cases, some of them (Serbs) have been offered inadequate
accommodation to move in, and some have not been offered anything at
all.
Vlajkovic maintains that "the activities of the town housing
committee are closely tied with the dissatisfaction of certain
right wing political circles following the Sabor's passage of the
law on amendments and supplements to the Reconstruction Act."
He also claimed that "offices for the displaced persons forward to
the Government statistical data that do not match the real state of
affairs on the ground." and that "the number of Serbs in Croatia who
are awaiting a solution for the return is much higher than 2,500."
In addition, for him, the number of 230,000 Croatian Serbs - a data
cited by the Displaced Persons' Office and the Croatian Government
- who are in Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serb entity is lower than the
real figure.
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