RTRS Serb man murdered near Obrovac, "Hang the Serbs from the willow trees" grafitti in Gracac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Email
http://www.rtrs.tv/vijesti/vijest.php?id=7797 Radio Television Republika Srpska, Banja Luka May 19, 2005 Serb man murdered near Obrovac, "Hang the Serbs from the willow trees" grafitti in Gracac Zagreb, May 19 (SRNA) - The body of a dead elderly man of Serbian nationality bearing visible signs of violence has been found in the village of Karin near Obrovac, reported Zadar police. Milorad Pupovac, vice-president of the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS) and a deputy in the Croatian assembly, said late last night that this was "a politically motivated murder" which occurred immediately after local elections, reported SRNA's correspondent in Zagreb. "This is just one of the tragic examples showing that although the local elections held last Sunday in Croatia were held in a tolerant atmosphere, this was immediately followed by a new wave of attack against Serbs," said Pupovac during a guest appearance on Croatian television. He said that the beginning of the new wave of attacks on Serbs is also confirmed by the appearance of fresh grafitti in in Gracac in Lika stating "Hang the Serbs from the willow trees" and large capital "U's" [for Ustashe] with swastikas. Pupovac emphasized that the HDZ [Croatian Fraternal Union] in Knin was attempting to bring all Croatian parties under the same umbrella under the slogan "all Croats against the Serbs" in order to prevent the SDSS, the winner in this municipality with a total of 35 percent of the electoral vote, from participating in the future local government. Pupovac assessed this as an attempt to weaken the government of prime minister Ivo Sanader, whom he called on "to think about the messages that are being sent by this". "If Serbs and the SDSS are openly being told ten years after Operation Storm that they cannot be lived with, then this is a message for concern, all the more so since the SDSS is one of Sanader's strongest arguments on the road to Europe," said Pupovac. Serbian News Network - SNN news@antic.org http://www.antic.org/
