ZAGREB, March 22 (Hina) - The Croatian government has expressed concern over a statement by Milan Djukic, the president of the Serb People's Party, to the effect that the early 1990s Serb rebellion in Croatia was legal, but the means
were not. Statements like Djukic's "are aimed at returning Croatian citizens of Serb nationality to the situation of the early '90s and are causing justified unrest in the public," government spokeswoman Aleksandra Kolaric said in a written statement. In an interview with Thursday's Jutarnji List daily, Djukic among else says that "in the last decade, Serbs in Croatia went through the biggest pogrom in their history" and that their "rebellion was legal, they just chose the wrong means." Conveying the government's official stance and the stance of other institutions, Kolaric stressed the rebellion had been an aggression on Croatia by the JNA, ex-Yugoslavia's federal army, which wa
ZAGREB, March 22 (Hina) - The Croatian government has expressed
concern over a statement by Milan Djukic, the president of the Serb
People's Party, to the effect that the early 1990s Serb rebellion in
Croatia was legal, but the means were not.
Statements like Djukic's "are aimed at returning Croatian citizens
of Serb nationality to the situation of the early '90s and are
causing justified unrest in the public," government spokeswoman
Aleksandra Kolaric said in a written statement.
In an interview with Thursday's Jutarnji List daily, Djukic among
else says that "in the last decade, Serbs in Croatia went through
the biggest pogrom in their history" and that their "rebellion was
legal, they just chose the wrong means."
Conveying the government's official stance and the stance of other
institutions, Kolaric stressed the rebellion had been an
aggression on Croatia by the JNA, ex-Yugoslavia's federal army,
which was helped by paramilitary units from Yugoslavia and partly
by the local Croatian Serb population.
The Croatian government is surprised at false statements on the
status of Croatian Serbs in the last decade, Kolaric said in the
statement.
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