ZAGREB, Aug 17 (Hina) - Milan Djukic, the Serb People's Party representative in the Croatian National Parliament, briefed reporters in Zagreb on Thursday about a threat an Orthodox priest in the eastern Croatian town of Slavonski Brod
recently suffered at the hands of a representative of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Djukic said the incident occurred on July 25 when Petar Katalinic, a housing commission president and HDZ's representative in parliament's House of Counties, entered the building of the Serb Orthodox Municipality in Slavonski Brod and started to insult and threaten the priest. According to information Djukic received from representatives of the Serb Orthodox Church, Katalinic told the priest he was an aggressor and that, like all Serbs, he should be killed for having instigated the Serb people to rebellion. He was then said to have left, but returned after a
ZAGREB, Aug 17 (Hina) - Milan Djukic, the Serb People's Party
representative in the Croatian National Parliament, briefed
reporters in Zagreb on Thursday about a threat an Orthodox priest in
the eastern Croatian town of Slavonski Brod recently suffered at
the hands of a representative of the Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ).
Djukic said the incident occurred on July 25 when Petar Katalinic, a
housing commission president and HDZ's representative in
parliament's House of Counties, entered the building of the Serb
Orthodox Municipality in Slavonski Brod and started to insult and
threaten the priest.
According to information Djukic received from representatives of
the Serb Orthodox Church, Katalinic told the priest he was an
aggressor and that, like all Serbs, he should be killed for having
instigated the Serb people to rebellion. He was then said to have
left, but returned after a couple of hours with another two men. Not
finding the priest, Katalinic insulted the priest's family.
Djukic told Hina today "police and the state leadership" had been
notified about the event.
He also took the opportunity to comment on criticism from the media
and some politicians in the wake of a press conference he held in
Rijeka last week.
Djukic had told reporters in the northern Adriatic port that
General Petar Stipetic, the Croatian army's Chief-Of-Staff, was
among those accountable for crimes committed during the Flash and
Storm liberation operations, because he had been part of the
military leadership at the time the operations were executed in
1995. Djukic had called Storm, which had liberated Croatian
territory controlled by Serb separatists, as shameful.
Djukic believes his detractors want to impose collective
responsibility on Serbs for war sufferings, thus diverting
attention from the responsibility for crimes committed against
Serbs between 1991 and 1997. He said today that certain factions
within the ruling six-party coalition were using this case in
squaring accounts with the strongest party and the president of the
republic.
Djukic reiterated today that Flash and Storm had been the subject of
a policy agreed on between Zagreb and Belgrade, and that its aim had
been ethnic cleansing, and not liberation.
Djukic also said that while driving with several party colleagues
in Rijeka around two p.m. yesterday, he was attacked by several men
who intercepted him in the street and started to insult him, hitting
the car windows with their fists. He will report the incident to the
police after collecting all necessary information and evidence.
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