"The instrumentalisation of Serbs from Croatia had always been aimed at obstructing Croatia's efforts on the European path and not the return of Serbs to Croatia," the report says adding that when it came to this issue "the policy of the incumbent Serbian government is not different from the policy led during the Slobodan Milosevic regime".
Serbian nationalists find joy in the problems Serbs from Croatia are faced with because their hidden agenda is to keep Croatian Serbs in Vojvodina, Zigmanov cited the report.
The report also says that media in Serbia continue to present Croatia as the one that destroyed the former Yugoslavia.
Analysing the situation in Serbia, the national Helsinki Committee also covered the position of Croats in Vojvodina. According to Zigmanov "there is still a high level of anti-Croat atmosphere which affects the solving of the Croat issue". The report also says that Croats in Vojvodina are not represented enough in the police, the judiciary, customs office, financial police, state and public enterprises.
The Serbian Helsinki Committee issued the 2004 report on human rights, headlined "Human Rights and Collective Identity", in late April.