CROATIAN WAR INVALIDS ANGRY AT HTV'S PRESENTATION OF SERB PARTIES

( Editorial: --> 9493 ) ZAGREB, Sept 10 (Hina) - The Croatian war invalids' association HVIDRA on Thursday expressed its resentment about the presentation of pre-election video clips of Bosnian Serb parties on Croatian Television (HTV). "What HTV did is disgraceful, disgusting, humiliating and anti- Croatian," said a statement from HVIDRA signed by president Marinko Liovic. The association believes HTV has no right to call itself Croatian because it broacasted in its prime time programmes "Chetniks (extreme Serb nationalists), the Yugoslav Cyrillic script and the notorious four C's (Serb extremist symbols)". By doing this, the Croatian national television broadcaster is destroying everything that was created through the sweat and blood of people who fought against the Greater Serbian symbols and ideology. HTV is not Croatian and names like TV Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb entity), TV Yugoslavia, TV Council of Europe or TV Madeleine Albright would be more suitable, HVIDRA said claiming US Secretary of State Albright favoured the Serbs. HTV is broadcasting election video clips of all Bosnian parties and coalitions participating in the elections, to be held on September 12 and 13. (hina) rml /mbr 101620 MET sep 98