ZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - The Serb Democratic Forum (SDF) on Tuesday warned of increasing violations of human rights in Croatian areas liberated in the summer of 1995.
ZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - The Serb Democratic Forum (SDF) on
Tuesday warned of increasing violations of human rights in Croatian
areas liberated in the summer of 1995. #L#
In these areas human rights were being violated continuously,
without any clear signs of improvement, SDF secretary, Petar
Ladjevic, said. He said that the worsening of the situation of
human rights of Serbs in western Slavonia, citing a large number of
particular cases of violence and maltreatment of the Serb
population in the areas.
SDF representatives said that maltreatment and violence,
mostly against Serb returnees, were being carried out by newly-
settled Croats from Bosnia-Herzegovina, adding that Croats whose
wives were of Serb nationality were also being punished with
violence.
SDF representatives held that authority officials encouraged
the perpetrators. SDF president Veljko Dzakula cited several
individual cases of human rights violations, such as the beating of
Serb returnee P. P. in Okucani.
"SDF will go there and take measures; besides, we will inform
General Klein," Dzakula said.
The first condition for the return of all displaced persons
was the respect of human rights, the crucial commitment of the
Croatian state which should ensure the peaceful reintegration of
the Croatian Danubian area, they said.
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