Croatia's force assimilation

What a clear message of racism in the 21st Century and this is against the Serb minority in Croatia. Let me give you an the news itself and my insights about it.

The decision passed on Monday by the local administration in the municipality of Vukovar "sends a clear message - Serbs are not welcome: they best be assimilated, or move out," says Miodrag Linta.

The president of a coalition of Serb refugees from Croatia added: 

"Clearly the time has not come for Serbs to be accepted as equal citizens in Croatia, nor to be considered a bridge of cooperation between Serbia and Croatia - instead, they are considered to be a disruptive factor." 

The Vukovar city assembly passed with a narrow majority a new statute which cancels bilingualism - that is, the official use of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. 

Although 13 years ago they obligated themselves, with a law, to respect ethnic minority rights, the Vukovar municipal leadership is not ready to honor this obligation even today. After video footage emerged a day before the town hall vote of the deputy mayor and the city council president singing a fascist Ustasha song - the question is whether they should have been expected at all to respect the law and prevent the removal of the use of the Serbian alphabet. 

That's first class racism if you'd ask me. Here's the thing. You enacted a law recognizing bilingualism in parts of Croatia where there are Serb majority or have a sizable Serb minority and then you dishonor it, in favor of Ustaše songs, praising the genocides in Jasenovac and Operacija Oluja.

Another ethnic genocide brewing up in the Balkans, I presume since the Croat lead party HDZ and the country's scandal mired president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović appears to be hypocrite I am expecting. Years before, during the term of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader or recently the former president Ivo Josipović, these issues were just small scale, until the HDZ came back to power. We all know the HDZ is responsible for asking NATO to conduct Operacija Oluja. Now, the force assimilation of Serbs to the Croatian language and the Roman Catholic religion is something disturbing. The current constitution recognizes the minority rights of Serbs but it seems Kolinda has other plans.