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In the Croatian city of Vukovar, which in 1991 was the scene of bloody battles between Serbs and Croats, 13 monuments in the Serbian Orthodox cemetery were destroyed. The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) reported this on January 12, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This happened during the Christmas holidays. According to a statement on the SOC website, the monuments were destroyed and broken into pieces, most likely 5...
The share of Serbs in Croatia's population has fallen over the past ten years from 4,36 to 3,2 percent. Such conclusions follow from the results of the population census of this country conducted in 2021, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The Croatian State Statistical Office published on September 22 the final results of the population census conducted in 2021 regarding the total population by sex and...
Representatives of the Serbian community in Croatia floated mourning wreaths along the Danube at the pier of the rowing club in Vukovar. This was reported by the Serbian edition of Sputnik radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The memorial event was attended by the Chairman of the Serbian People's Council and deputy of the Croatian Assembly Milorad Pupovac, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister of the Croatian government Boris Milosevic, the representative of the President of Serbia in Croatia Veran Matic...
The Vukovar City Council, at the suggestion of Mayor Ivan Penava, again denied the Serbian minority the public use of the Cyrillic alphabet. This was reported by Hina, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The decision that the Serbs of Vukovar do not have the right to publicly use the Cyrillic alphabet (Serbian and Croatian languages are mainly distinguished by the use of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets) was supported by the majority of deputies of the city council. IN…
Today, the 29th anniversary of the liberation of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army and Chetnik volunteers from Croatian neo-Nazi separatists in Croatia was traditionally celebrated with a funeral procession. The representative of the President of Serbia, Veran Matic, took part in one of the mourning events in a politically correct manner. In connection with the coronavirus epidemic, it was decided that the traditional procession dedicated to the liberation of Vukovar in 1991, which in modern Croatia...
The Vukovar City Council agreed with the conclusions of the local mayor, nationalist Ivan Penava, that the city has not created the conditions for the return of the Cyrillic alphabet. At the same time, deputies from the Vukovar branch of the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS) voted against such a discriminatory decision. “If 1991 (the year when Croatian separatists unleashed anti-Serbian terror in Vukovar - ed.) had happened after...
Over the past three days, in the largest city of the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina, Vukovar, “peacefully reintegrated” into Croatia, three attacks on local Serbs occurred. Local police managed to detain two people in hot pursuit. As recorded by a CCTV camera, four young Serbian residents of Vukovar were standing near their car parked outside a bakery, chatting when...
Croatian authorities are trying to secure the memorial status of “resistance to Serbian aggression” for the city of Vukovar. It was from here in 1991 that the Serbian population, which opposed secession from Yugoslavia, was partially destroyed and partially expelled by Ustasha followers. The day before, the Croatian parliament overwhelmingly approved the status of a “place of special domestic priority” for the city of Vukovar in Eastern Slavonia. This was done in order to…
Activists of the Serbian feminist organization “Women in Black” held an action in the center of Belgrade dedicated to the 28th anniversary of the tragic events in the city of Vukovar. Then the Yugoslav army needed three months of siege to suppress the rebellion of Croatian separatists. The participants of the current action, hiding behind slogans about peace and honoring the memory of innocent victims, condemned the actions of the Serbian military who fought to preserve the integrity of the state. A few activists...
Croatia will send a note of protest to Serbia over the unveiling in Novi Sad of a memorial plaque to Mladen Bratic, major general and commander of the Novosad Corps of the Yugoslav People's Army, who commanded the operation to preserve territorial integrity against Croatian separatists in Vukovar in 1991. This was stated by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The fact that the monument to the general who killed 2200...
