By Associated
Press, Published: February 2
VUKOVAR,
Croatia — Can Vukovar also be Bykobap?
Whether the
name of the war-scarred town on the Danube is written in the Latin or Cyrillic
alphabet is a sensitive question. Croatia’s upcoming entry into the European
Union is forcing residents of the Balkan country to answer it.
More than 20
years after it was reduced to rubble in a brutal Serb-led army siege, Vukovar
is testing if Croatians are ready to respect the EU’s standards on minority
rights when their country joins as the 28th member on July 1.
The Croatian
government is trying to introduce Serbian Cyrillic writing into areas with
sizeable ethnic Serb communities, a move that has infuriated Croatia’s war
veterans and nationalists. Thousands of flag-waving protesters, some wearing
military uniforms, joined a demonstration against the change on Saturday in
downtown Vukovar.
1 comment:
Absolutely predictable. Croatians only recognize Serbian crimes. But having killed during the WWII some 300,000 Serbs women and children included and having a known concentration camp a la Germans for Serbs and Jews, Jasenovac, that it better be forgotten.
No there will not be a lasting peace in the Balkans with such attitudes
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