ZAGREB, Aug 6 (Hina) - The president of the Serb National Party (SNS) and a parliamentary representative, Milan Djukic, on Friday said the Croatian authorities were considering Serbs second-class citizens and were proving that stand
on all levels of local administration. "If there was not for pressure by the international community, many (of them) would not survive because there is no rule of law, especially as regards the Serb population", Djukic told a news conference in Zagreb. Explaining his claims, Djukic said the number of returnees to Croatia was being manipulated, Serb property was not being returned to its owners, and Serb families were not being granted reconstruction aid, including reconstruction certificates. Djukic accused the Croatian authorities of failing to prevent revenge and sanction the plunder, burning and destruction of Serb property and the killing of elderly Serbs. Th
ZAGREB, Aug 6 (Hina) - The president of the Serb National Party
(SNS) and a parliamentary representative, Milan Djukic, on Friday
said the Croatian authorities were considering Serbs second-class
citizens and were proving that stand on all levels of local
administration.
"If there was not for pressure by the international community, many
(of them) would not survive because there is no rule of law,
especially as regards the Serb population", Djukic told a news
conference in Zagreb.
Explaining his claims, Djukic said the number of returnees to
Croatia was being manipulated, Serb property was not being returned
to its owners, and Serb families were not being granted
reconstruction aid, including reconstruction certificates.
Djukic accused the Croatian authorities of failing to prevent
revenge and sanction the plunder, burning and destruction of Serb
property and the killing of elderly Serbs.
The SNS leader accused Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic of being
the best spokesman of the policy of hatred towards Croatian Serbs,
adding the minister should provide answers regarding some of his
claims. "If (Operation) Storm was only a military-police
operation, as Mr Separovic claims, then he should say against whom
the operation was conducted, if the Serb army and citizens had left
the krajina a couple of days earlier; why was one fourth of land
scorched during and after the operation which Serbs neither
participated in nor resisted; if 'Storm' was so clean, there is no
reason for... documents not to be turned over to The Hague", Djukic
said.
At the end of his statement, Djukic said Croatia's statement
against Yugoslavia before the International Court of Justice was an
act of cynicism because it could be felt on all levels of authority
that Serbs were not welcome in Croatia.
(hina) rml .