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

Sat Jan 17 20:51:38 CET 2004

> Come on, Andrej, I always forward IFEX alerts. It just happenes this
> time that they critique situation in Serbia.

Listen Ivo, I daily receive a bunch of news about Croatian crimes and war
criminals. Would you like me to forward them daily to this list? World media
are also full of criticism of Croatia, in 90s, but also in the whole 20th
century. It just depends what sources you are linked to.

> I am in a weaker position than you (since you live in Serbia) to
> assess whether the reports are right, or not. Since you believe they
> are not, I would welcome to listen to your take on the situation in
> Serbia and reasons why there are so many negative reports from
> independent sources coming out.

I can tell you that we live together with Croats here in Serbia, me
personally, I am working with them, some of them are even editors in our
daily newspaper Dnevnik. No discriminations at all. Also there are
Hungarians, Slovaks, Rutens, Romanians etc. So from my experience and
knowledge those news about some "threat campaign" are exaggeration.

The recent negative reports are coming our I suppose because Serbia voted
against Westerners' favorites, and that is bothering them. They are afraid
they will not have their puppets in Serbia as before. So they are inventing
some "cases" in order to make pressure on new government.

>
>  Recently, Sanader,
> Croatian prime minister announced that Croatia will repatriate them.

OK, those are still just words. Let's wait for what is going to happen.

> said. I think we should give the new prime minister about a year to
> see whether he will honor his Christmass promise to Croatia's Serbs.

Or Croatia will stay without Serbs? As Kosovo.

> stretch, given that some drunken Serbs were involved in far more
> serious ethnic crimes than verbal threats as late as 5 years ago....

I was talking about position of Croat minority in Serbia. There were no
ethnical clashes inside Serbia in last 10 years. Can you remind me if there
were? Or you have some more propaganda to tell.
Andrej

> On 17 Jan 2004 at 14:00, Andrej Tisma wrote:
>
> 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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> ----- 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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