Showing posts with label vukovar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vukovar. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2015

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.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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.



Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Srbi u Hrvatskoj

From Wikipedia

They are one of the few. However, less than 90% of the Serbs remained in Croatia. What would be the implications if the Serbs there went to Srbija or Bosna? Since Oluja or operation Storm, they went through Bosna and Srbija.

This could be trivial. Some members of the Serbian basketball team was born in Croatia. Notably:
Predrag "Peđa" Stojaković
Milan Mačvan
Kosta Perović
Zoran Erceg
Đorđe Gagić
Duško Savanović


One exception is the Bosnian Serb Aleksandar "Saša" Vasiljević who was born in Croatia.

In actuality, the Serbs settled in modern Croatia during the 7th century which is current day former Yugoslav republics. Through building kingdoms and empires, monasteries and churches belonging to the Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva, invasion by Ottoman and Hapsburg states, Catholicizing most Serbs from Dubrovnik,  and through the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Jugoslavija, they survived like nothing happened.

Then, the Nezavisna Držva Hrvatska imposed their anti-semitical and barbaric war against the Serbian Orthodox population living in Croatia. Serb hunting season started, as Ante Pavelić, Alojzije Stepinac and others supported this fascist state as mentioning "Bog i Hrvati" or "For God and Croats". 700,000 and as more as 1,400,000 were killed, mostly Serbs of course. Few Jews were saved because of the Vatican's rescue efforts like how they are doing also in Poland.

In socialist Yugoslavia, Serbs born in Croatian soil are the ones who are serving as police, government and economic minsters, declaring themselves as Yugoslavs.

Then came, the war. Both Croats and Serbs were fighting for territory and representation. As what i know, when Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, the Serbs want to break from Croatia, like how West Virginia, who was loyal to the Union separated itself from Confederate Virginia. As war rages, both sides committed atrocities. Siege of Vukovar, destruction of Serbian churches and monasteries, Serbian homes were destroyed or forcibly taken by the new Croatian settlers and costing the lives of Josip Kir and Milan Levar in the process of their fair and just Croatia.

USA came to give Croatia total independence, bombing the Krajina Serbs into submission as what is called operation Storm. A storm that lasted a few days, resulting to a death of thousands and quarter of a million ethnically cleansed Serbs escaping to Srbija or other countries as Slobo and his generals abandoned them. Some of them are currently in Serbia or represented the country in all fields while the Croatian Serbs were left served for Croatia. Here are some:

Marko Popović-basketball player
Arijan Komazec-Basketball player
Milorad Pupovac-politician
Vojislav Stanimirović-politician
Željko Jovanović-politician
Branko Grčić-politician
Milanka Opačić-politician
Slobodan Uzelac-politician

Here is just a short summary of the history of Croatian Serbs. I don't know much but this is what truly and is happening now.