SNV Bulletin #6 Govor mržnje i nasilje prema Srbima u 2015

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SNV Bulletin #6 / 76 in the method of collecting data. In 2015 SNV and the SDSS caucus carried out a systematisation of methodology so that, unlike in 2013 and 2014; more attention was dedicated to following the media. This methodology will also be applied in the coming years. Since some victims never report an attack or a threat because they distrust the institutions and fear possible further attacks, we are aware that the record which we bring forward contains flaws. For objective reasons this Bulletin does not feature or analyse all of the 189 cases, but only the most blatant examples. The overview is roughly divided into five thematic units: /1 Elements of hate speech or spreading of ethnic hatred in public space /2 Elements of hate speech or spreading of ethnic hatred in statements and acts of public figures /3 Verbal threats and physical violence /4 Damaging and destruction of property, buildings and cemeteries /5 Resistance to the use of Cyrillic script /1 Elements of Hate Speech or Spreading of Ethnic Intolerance in Public Space Graffiti containing Nazi, fascist and Ustasha symbols and messages calling for violence against Serbs, are still a common phenomenon in the streets of almost all Croatian cities and towns. The gravity of the situation is illustrated by the fact that the City of Zagreb announced at the start of 2015 a plan to form an intervention squad for erasing such graffiti. In 2015 the situation was also unchanged at sports events, which continue to be known as venues where hate speech is present. The chauvinist rampage culminated on June 12 when global media carried a photograph of a swastika drawn on the pitch of Poljud, the Split football stadium. Last year saw increased use of hate speech and discriminatory speech in the media. Apart from readers’ comments, which are still the most common space for spreading intolerance against Serbs and other minorities, also of note was an increase in the number of Internet portals which published discriminatory
Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in 2015 / 77 content on a daily basis without being sanctioned. In the course of 2015 an increase of ethnic intolerance was noted at public gatherings and during street actions. Celebrations of the NDH, protests against marking the Jadovno 12 commemoration and the Day of Uprising in Srb 13 culminated with physical violence during and after a round table named “Second War”, organised by the SNV and the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka in cooperation with the NGO Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past. /1.1. Graffiti As in the previous years, the highest concentration of graffiti calling for violence against Serbs or celebrating the fascist ideology was registered on the streets of Zagreb. Along with the letter “U”, which is the Ustasha symbol, a swastika and the abbreviation “ZDS” (For the Homeland Ready), facades, tram and bus stops, signposts and underpasses of the capital were mostly defaced with insults against Zdravko Mamić, executive director and president of the Dinamo football club: “Mamic, you Serb” and “Zdravko, you Serb”. At the start of the year, when protests around the world were held under the slogan Je suis Charlie, related to the murder of editorial staff at the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo, in Zagreb there appeared graffiti reading “Je suis Son of Ustasha”. Apart from the Ustasha and Nazi insignia and inscriptions “Adolf Hitler”, there were also slogans reading “Kill the Serb” and “Serbs should hang”. One day before the 20 th anniversary of the Operation Storm, the activists of Documenta, an organisation which together with the SNV organized a number of events related to this date, found offensive graffiti on the building where their office is placed, reading “Chetnik 14 and Communist Shits”, while the plaque with their official information was scribbled over. The search for the perpetrator continues. 12 Jadovno is a system of concentration camps which was, apart from Jasenovac, the biggest execution ground during the NDH. 13 Before Yugoslavia fell apart, the Day of Uprising in Srb had been celebrated as the beginning of the antifascist uprising in Croatia 14 Chetniks – paramilitary ultranationalist Serbian units which first appeared in the Balkan wars 1912–1913 At the start of 2015 Ustasha graffiti and Ustasha salute “For the Homeland Ready” appeared in Split. In the night between May 4 and 5, unknown perpetrator sprayed the Orthodox parish house in Vinkovci with the message “Death to Chetniks”. According to the archpriest stavrophor Predrag Azap, the parish house situated in the town’s centre has been targeted by vandals who wrote hate messages a dozen times so far. In early June, graffiti appeared in Osijek’s pedestrian zone reading: “Kill the Serb”, “Serbs should hang”, and “Crush all the
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