Croatian PM says war is over; "defenders" disagree
Another protest was held in the Croatian town of Vukovar on Wednesday against inscriptions in both Croatian and Serbian placed on administrative buildings.
Wednesday, 04.09.2013.
16:32
VUKOVAR Another protest was held in the Croatian town of Vukovar on Wednesday against inscriptions in both Croatian and Serbian placed on administrative buildings. Unlike earlier this week, the protest today went without incidents. The group organizing the demonstrations, the Headquarters for the Defense of Croatian Vukovar, said that the gatherings would continue for as long as Cyrillic - the alphabet of the Serbian language - was used on the signs. Croatian PM says war is over; "defenders" disagree However, the group said that unlike on Monday, when two plaques were smashed with hammers , they would, in the future, not resort to violence in order to remove the objects. Some 500 people took part in the protest walk today. The protesters did not cause any incidents as they passed by the local police HQ, which has the bilingual plaques, and greeted some 50 policemen guarding the area by singing patriotic and religious songs. The Croatian authorities are putting up the plaques in line with the country's laws, under which an ethnic community that forms more than a third of a local population is entitled to have official signs on public buildings written in its own language, along with Croatian. But only a fraction of the 23 planned plaques has been put up in Vukovar so far. Croatia's PM Zoran Milanovic on Tuesday commented on the incidents to note that the war - led in the first half of the 1990s - was over - but the leader of the group organizing the protests, Tomislav Josic today asserted that this was not the case. "Our message is that the war in Vukovar will not be over as long as the mothers of the killed children are looking for their sons, and their killers are freely walking around Vukovar," Josic was quoted as saying by Croatia's 24 Sata website. The media in Croatia reported that Vukovar Mayor Zeljko Samo blamed the HDZ party, saying they stood behind the incidents "in an attempt to spark unrest across Croatia and destabilize the government, so they could be in power as soon as possible." Croatian authorities condemned the incidents. President Ivo Josipovic, who is currently on a visit to Montenegro, made an appeal in favor of "peace and order," and added that while everyone was entitled to hold peaceful protests, "the Constitution and laws must be respected." Protesters are seen in Vukovar on Wednesday (Tanjug) B92 Tanjug T portal
Croatian PM says war is over; "defenders" disagree
However, the group said that unlike on Monday, when two plaques were smashed with hammers, they would, in the future, not resort to violence in order to remove the objects.
Some 500 people took part in the protest walk today. The protesters did not cause any incidents as they passed by the local police HQ, which has the bilingual plaques, and greeted some 50 policemen guarding the area by singing patriotic and religious songs.
The Croatian authorities are putting up the plaques in line with the country's laws, under which an ethnic community that forms more than a third of a local population is entitled to have official signs on public buildings written in its own language, along with Croatian.
But only a fraction of the 23 planned plaques has been put up in Vukovar so far.
Croatia's PM Zoran Milanović on Tuesday commented on the incidents to note that the war - led in the first half of the 1990s - was over - but the leader of the group organizing the protests, Tomislav Josić today asserted that this was not the case.
"Our message is that the war in Vukovar will not be over as long as the mothers of the killed children are looking for their sons, and their killers are freely walking around Vukovar," Josić was quoted as saying by Croatia's 24 Sata website.
The media in Croatia reported that Vukovar Mayor Željko Samo blamed the HDZ party, saying they stood behind the incidents "in an attempt to spark unrest across Croatia and destabilize the government, so they could be in power as soon as possible."
Croatian authorities condemned the incidents. President Ivo Josipović, who is currently on a visit to Montenegro, made an appeal in favor of "peace and order," and added that while everyone was entitled to hold peaceful protests, "the Constitution and laws must be respected."
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