Serb representatives in Croatia request: Stop to anti-Serb campaign
Blic - May 23, 2005

Croatia top officials have condemned planting of bombs that damaged municipality buildings in the villages of Borovo Selo and Trpinje in which Serb Democratic Independent Party /SDSS/ won recently held local elections. Croatia Prime Minister Ivo Sanader ordered the Police to carry out rapid and intensive investigation.

The explosions took place two hours one after another what leads to a conclusion that the same team is responsible for them.

However, as in the case of recently cruel murder of Dusan Vidic /81/ in the village of Krupin and throwing of a bomb in the residential-business building downtown Vukovar that houses the head office of the Party of Dunav Serbs/, the Police have not found anything yet in these last two incidents either. A deputy in Croatia Parliament and also leader of SDSS Milorad Pupovac yesterday held a press conference in Zagreb at which he expressed protest and concern by the Serb community over the recent wave of violence and terrorism in Croatia. He also condemned the irresponsible campaign against Serbs by some Croatia politicians and media that led to recent incidents. He also accused Croatia Television /HTV/ for 'turning from public into private television for spreading of hatred'.

Organization for European security and cooperation /OSCE/ has condemned the series of bomb attacks that occurred in Vukovar last weekend.

'Such incidents that occurred immediately after local elections held in the atmosphere of tolerance and democracy, are reasons for serious concern', OSCE spokeswoman in Croatia Antonella Kerassino said.
 

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