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

Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in 2015
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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