Protest against “erasing” of Yugoslavs

The Center for the Development of Civil Society (CRCD) criticized the Human and Minority Rights Minister's statement that Yugoslavs cannot be a minority.

Izvor: B92

Saturday, 20.03.2010.

10:24

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The Center for the Development of Civil Society (CRCD) criticized the Human and Minority Rights Minister's statement that Yugoslavs cannot be a minority. CRCD is warning the public that the minister is trying to erase an ethnic minority in a completely arbitrary way. Minister Svetozar Ciplic told a press conference on March 12, that Yugoslavs could not have ethnic minority status or their council because “they were missing a language, script, and literature”. Protest against “erasing” of Yugoslavs “With such a position (on Yugoslavians) Minister Ciplic is grossly violating minority rights of those declared as Yugoslavs, 80,721 of them according to the census from 2002, which makes them the third biggest minority community in Serbia (outside the territory of the autonomous province of Kosovo),” the announcement reads. “Yugoslavs call their language Serbo-Croatian or Croatian-Serbian, they have two alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic, and outstanding literature created in this language. Creators who declared themselves as nationally declared Yugoslavians have received the highest recognitions for their contributions to the world of culture, including the Nobel Prize.” CRCD “notes with satisfaction that 814 Egyptians, 584 Ashkali and 572 Greeks in Serbia have been recognized by the state, i.e. that the state respects them as ethnic minorities.” “CRCD invites the public to react, in accordance with the principles of non-discrimination and legal regulations, to this scandalous, unlawful and condemnable attack of the Human and Minority Rights Minister on the national identity of 80,000 Serbian citizens,” the announcement concluded.

Protest against “erasing” of Yugoslavs

“With such a position (on Yugoslavians) Minister Čiplić is grossly violating minority rights of those declared as Yugoslavs, 80,721 of them according to the census from 2002, which makes them the third biggest minority community in Serbia (outside the territory of the autonomous province of Kosovo),” the announcement reads.

“Yugoslavs call their language Serbo-Croatian or Croatian-Serbian, they have two alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic, and outstanding literature created in this language. Creators who declared themselves as nationally declared Yugoslavians have received the highest recognitions for their contributions to the world of culture, including the Nobel Prize.”

CRCD “notes with satisfaction that 814 Egyptians, 584 Ashkali and 572 Greeks in Serbia have been recognized by the state, i.e. that the state respects them as ethnic minorities.”

“CRCD invites the public to react, in accordance with the principles of non-discrimination and legal regulations, to this scandalous, unlawful and condemnable attack of the Human and Minority Rights Minister on the national identity of 80,000 Serbian citizens,” the announcement concluded.

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