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

SNV Bulletin #6 / 94
Several insulting letters, mostly sent from Slavonski Brod and
targeting Milorad Pupovac, have reached the SNV and the independent
Serb weekly Novosti, published by the SNV. Along with
hand-written insults, there were usually photocopies of insulting
articles from Hrvatski tjednik (a hardline Croat nationalist weekly).
“Pupovac, Chetniks, members of the ORJUNA (a pro-Yugoslav
organisation from the 1920s) and all anti-Croat scum: Get out of
Croatia!” and “Every child in Croatia should know who Milorad
Pupovac is. This Chetnik evil-doer is causing unrest. He should be
banished and banned from returning to Croatia,” are some of the
excerpts from the letters.
During 2015, members of the Serb community in Croatia received
several threats through the social media networks. On May 17, a
person who gave their name as Mate Marković wrote on Milorad
Pupovac’s official web page: “I screw your dead mother in her
grave; leave our homeland if you feel any intolerance, I screw the
mother that gave birth to you and to Furio Radin (representative
of the Italian minority). Die, you Serb dog”. In early May, Stanislav
Jelić left the following message on the same web page: “I have
planted a willow 31 for Milorad Pupovac”. On June 7, several days
after the previous year’s Bulletin was presented to the public, a
person with the Facebook nick Niko Vukobrat sent a death threat
to Tamara Opačić, author of the Bulletin. On that day, Vukobrat
set a private message with the following content (rhymes in
Croatian): “The summer passes, a thunderbolt splits the sky, hey
Serb, I’ll pull your guts out”. In December, Vojislav Stanimirović,
the president of the SDSS party, filed charges to the Vukovar-
Srijem police against a doctor at the Vukovar General Hospital
named Vladimir Horvatić. Horvatić posted the following status on
his Facebook profile on December 3: “I fuck your Chetnik mother
and your bloody mouth. How could it possibly be that you should
decide on the distribution of seats in the Croatian parliament,
you who gloated on November 19, 1991 over the ‘fall of the last
Ustasha stronghold’ and the Vukovar hospital, where you slaughtered…
And now you, the SDSS and your youth organisation, the
SDP, should be making decisions in Croatia. I am a coward when I
am outside, but come to the Vukovar Hospital today and I’ll drink
your blood from your three fingers (reference to the three fingers
Serbs use to make a sign of the cross, as opposed to the whole
hand in Catholics). This is not a threat, this is your verdict!”
31 Willow tree hints at
the “Hang Serbs on the
Willows” (Srbe na vrbe),
a nationalist slogan from
World War 2
On August 21, in the village of Korlat near Benkovac (the
central Dalmatia hinterland), a group of boys aged 16-18 circled
around the house of returnee N.K. After he stepped out into the