Croatian militants demand that Serbian singers be barred from the music festival
The Croatian Association of War Disabled Persons "HVIDRA" calls for a boycott of concerts by Serbian performers at the Rujanfest festival, which will take place in September in Zagreb.
The Balkan Transitional Justice website writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the capital of our beautiful Croatia, for whose sovereignty we fought, the organizers of Rujanfest decided to hold concerts of Serbian folk singers under the slogan “there are no boundaries for entertainment,” says the HVIDRA press release.
The organization asks the relevant institutions to ban the performances of singers who, during the “Great Serbian Aggression, sang Chetnik songs and expressed support for the Great Serbian Aggression against the Republic of Croatia.”
The organizer of Ruyanfest, Darko Fuček, told the media that he would not cancel the concerts. According to him, when selecting performers, the organizers were guided by the “requests of the audience.”
In 2015, Croatian “veterans” already managed to cancel the concert of Serbian singer Miroslav Ilyich in Sarajevo. . Last year, the Serbian group Bajaga & Instruktori was supposed to perform in the city of Karlovac, but after complaints from veterans, the organizers invited another group.
Croatian veterans' organizations have political influence in the country and often seek to use it. In 2013, they were at the forefront of protests against the introduction of bilingual Croatian and Serbian signs on official buildings in the military city of Vukovar.
At the end of August, war veterans' associations also became involved in a debate over whether Croatian Serb leader Milorad Pupovac, whose party is the junior member of the ruling coalition, should apologize for saying that Croatia was becoming a factor of instability in the former Yugoslavia and that measures were being taken in Croatia attempts to rehabilitate the ideas of the fascist Ustasha movement during the Second World War. They are calling on the Croatian government to dissolve the coalition if Pupovac does not apologize.
In 1991-95, there was a military conflict caused by Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia. During the war, the Croats massacred the Serbs in the Serbian Krajina, 250 thousand Serbs were forced to flee from there.
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