EU doesn't CARE

In an unsuprising move the EU said about the crimes committed by the Croatian HDZ against the Serb minorities: let them be. How infuriating that was, especially that the EU is "known" to uphold the rights of minorities in their member states. Well, that's what hypocrites do, what's not on their interests are thrown out of the building.

Right now in Zagreb, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is laughing her butts out since she got victory from one of the most powerful political entities in Europe right now. Little did she know, Karma strikes when everything would go more south.

Let's analyze this without taking reference from B92. 

The Serbs of Croatia never got the justice they deserve and using the Cyrillic/Ćirilica in Vukovar alone means the impending new civil war in Croatia or the Serbian War of Freedom, when that happens. If Kolinda and her stupid ministers doesn't want civil war or experiencing their own medicine, better they give rights back to Serbs since I think that the reason Croats wanted to shatter the Serbian identity is that about the celebration of Croats for Operacija Oluja meant the start of a nee conflict. Tell me wrong if that doesn't happen in 20 yeas but that's my prediction. Igniting the seeds of doubt and hatred into war is bad, even if you have the power whether Serbs or Croats are guilty or not, war because of destroying an ethnic group doesn't make sense.

No Justice?/Nema Pravde?

This sounds rhetoric on my part but I am hoping no conlifct would happen, because of racism on both sides, especially the Croatian side. Banning the Cyrillic in Vukovar were Serbs constitute around 30% and some small towns inside are Serb majority or having a mayor themselves as Serbs and not Croats.

"If the EU can allow a member country to ban the use of a nation's alphabet, to ban the memory of the Serbs who no longer exist in Croatia, or are very few, if it can allow such things, the question is, what are EU's values? Are we, in that case, ready for the EU, if the EU cannot react to a clear example of racism?" --Aleksandar Vulin

Remember, Croatia/Hrvatska is a member of the European Union/Evropska Unija which the constitution of member states is the protection of minorities with full rights. Croatia won't even dare to respect it even if EU is something I am not fond of.

Here's the thing though: Why does the Croats in Serbia or in the autonomous region of Vojvodina enjoy rights that their Serb counterparts in Croatia doesn't enjoy. Serbia is not a member of the grand family of economic plundering European Union but has rights given to the Croats, Albanians, Romani, Gorani, Hungarians, Slovaks and others that respect themselves as Serbs when it comes to citizenship while keeping their local culture intact.

When did you see the Vojska Hrvatska protect the Serb minorities. Not even once. Even those Hrvati that protected the Srbi(Josip Kir, Milan Levar and others that acted as humans than savages) are killed. Where is the sense of justice even if the EU puts minor sanctions on Hrvatska?

See! As long as the HDZ and other anti-Serb political parties in Hrvatska exists, racism on a larger scale continues while the world DOESN'T CARE about the plight of the Serbs.

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.

Sv. Kiril i Metodij

Saints Cyril and Methodius/Sv. Kiril i Metodij. What are they known for and why are they important? Simple. My short answer and knowledge is that, they are the apostles to the Slavs. How? They made the Glagolitic alphabet so that the pagan Slavs at that time would be converted and enlightened by the word of Christ.

The Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets are the oldest known Slavic alphabets, and were created by the two brothers and their students, to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavic languages. The early Glagolitic alphabet was used in Great Moravia between 863 (the arrival of Cyril and Methodius) and 885 (the expulsion of their students) for government and religious documents and books, and at the Great Moravian Academy (Veľkomoravské učilište) founded by Cyril, where followers of Cyril and Methodius were educated, by Methodius himself among others. The alphabet has been traditionally attributed to Cyril. That attribution has been confirmed explicitly by the papal letter Industriae tuae (880) approving the use of Old Church Slavonic, which says that the alphabet was "invented by Constantine the Philosopher". The term invention need not exclude the possibility of the brothers having made use of earlier letters, but implies only that before that time the Slavic languages had no distinct script of their own.

 Ever since their students made and perfected the Slavic alphabets over time, they are considered ''Equal to the Apostles'' and their feast day are either celebrated at May 11(New Calendar) and May 24(Old Calendar).