SARENGRAD, Nov 11 (Hina) - About 50 residents of Sarengrad, a village in eastern Croatia, on Saturday staged a rally protesting their not being allowed to visit an islet on the Danube River which is controlled by the Yugoslav
authorities although according to cadastral books it belongs to Croatia. The villagers said the purpose of the rally was to make the state authorities aware of the problem of the islet, without which, they claim, there can be neither life in nor return to Sarengrad. The protesters carried a banner which read "Sarengrad - Croatia's Occupied Part," and organised the signing of a petition demanding the return of the islet. The petition will be forwarded to the State Commission for Borders. The Sarengrad islet originated in the late 19th century, when a channel was dug out across the Croatian side of the Danube. Before the war, the Sarengrad residents bred their cattle
SARENGRAD, Nov 11 (Hina) - About 50 residents of Sarengrad, a
village in eastern Croatia, on Saturday staged a rally protesting
their not being allowed to visit an islet on the Danube
River which is controlled by the Yugoslav authorities although
according to cadastral books it belongs to Croatia.
The villagers said the purpose of the rally was to make the state
authorities aware of the problem of the islet, without which, they
claim, there can be neither life in nor return to Sarengrad.
The protesters carried a banner which read "Sarengrad - Croatia's
Occupied Part," and organised the signing of a petition demanding
the return of the islet. The petition will be forwarded to the State
Commission for Borders.
The Sarengrad islet originated in the late 19th century, when a
channel was dug out across the Croatian side of the Danube. Before
the war, the Sarengrad residents bred their cattle on the islet.
When the Serbian forces occupied Sarengrad in 1991, the islet was
occupied as well. However, the return of the Sarengrad area in the
Croatian constitutional and legal order was not followed by the
return of the islet.
Of 1,000 pre-war residents, 400 have returned to Sarengrad and many
own grazing land on the islet.
(hina) rml