[syndicate] Deat threats to Croatian minority magazine journalists in Serbia

[Andrej Tisma]

Very interesting Ivo, your choice of articles from the press recently is
anti-Serb I can remark. And what is strange about those  "clearly
anti-Croatian threats" when you know well that Croatia has expelled over
200,000 Serbs in the last Balkan war. They live mostly in Serbia and are not
aloud to come back to their own land and homes in Croatia. So if once in 10
years some drunk Serb refugee tells some verbal threats to Croatian magazine
which is freely published in Serbia, is that a cause for alarm? No, it is
again stinking anti-Serb propaganda.
Andrej


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Andrej Tisma -  artist, art critic and curator
WEBSITE: http://www.pcpages.com/justart/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivo Skoric" <ivo at reporters.net>
To: "ed Agro" <edagro at verizon.net>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:09 PM
Subject: [syndicate] Deat threats to Croatian minority magazine journalists
in Serbia


> IFEX - News from the international freedom of expression community
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> PRESS RELEASE/ALERT - SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
>
> 15 January 2004
>
> Journalists receive death threats
>
> SOURCE: International Press Institute (IPI), Vienna
>
> (IPI/IFEX) - The following is a press release by the South East
> Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
>
> VERBAL THREATS AGAINST JOURNALISTS IN SERBIA
>
> Vienna, 15 January 2004
>
> The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a
> network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South
> East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute
> (IPI), is deeply concerned about the verbal threats directed against
> editors and journalists working at Hrvatske rijeci, a magazine for
> the Croatian minority, which is published in Subotica, Serbia.
>
> On 13 January 2004, Hrvatske rijeci received three threatening
> telephone calls. According to SEEMO's sources, the threats were
> clearly anti-Croatian in content. In the first call, the voice said
> that if the magazine continued to publish, he would kill the staff.
> In the second call, the same voice said, "You are all dead." In the
> third call, he used swearwords. On 14 January, the magazine received
> two further anonymous threatening phone calls.
>
> As SEEMO has been informed, these threats against Hrvatske rijeci are
> part of a campaign of intimidation carried out against the Croatian
> minority in Vojvodina, Serbia, over the past two weeks. Until now, no
> one has been arrested by police. SEEMO Secretary General Oliver
> Vujovic expressed alarm "that all of these cases happened in a multi-
> ethnic region, such as Vojvodina, and after the December elections in
> Serbia."
>
> SEEMO calls upon the authorities in Serbia, as well as the local
> authorities in Vojvodina, to carry out an immediate and thorough
> investigation and to bring to justice those responsible. We further
> urge the authorities to do everything possible to ensure that
> journalists and other media workers in Serbia are able to safely
> carry out their profession.
>
> For further information, contact IPI at Spiegelgasse 2/29, A-1010
> Vienna, Austria, tel: +43 1 512 90 11, fax: +43 1 512 90 14, e-mail:
> ipi at freemedia.at, Internet site: http://www.freemedia.at, or SEEMO,
> Spiegelgasse 2/29, 1010 Vienna, Austria, tel (SEEMO+HELP LINE): +43 1
> 513 39 40,  tel (SEEMO): +43 1 512 90 11 11,  fax: +43 1 512 90 15, e-
> mail: info at seemo.org, Internet site://www.seemo.org
>
>
>


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