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

Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in 2015
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the already ruined and destroyed temple, whose renovation is
under way. Scattered chairs and liquor bottles were found in the
altar section of the temple. In late August and early September,
several tombstones were damaged at the Orthodox cemetery in
Nova Gradiška, which dates from the 18 th century. The police was
informed and carried out an investigation at the scene.
/4.3. Damage and Destruction of Monuments
A monument erected at Karadžićevo near Vinkovci to commemorate
the local villagers who perished there during October and
November 1991 was damaged three times in 2015. In the same
village, a marble plaque with the engraved figures of St. Peter and
Paul, owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church, was destroyed. The
plaque had hung on a wall in the village. In the night of August 16,
from Saturday to Sunday, a memorial was damaged at Medari. It
was a cross erected in the memory of 65 local residents, mostly
civilians, killed in the last war. The owners of web pages Hop.hr
and Gradjanska-akcija.official.com should be held responsible, as
they publicly announced the next morning that the memorial had
been “removed thanks to a joint action”. In Vinkovci on January 29,
unknown perpetrators cut off and took with them the bronze head
weighing 60 kg from the statue of Josif Runjanin, the composer of
the Croatian national anthem and an ethnic Serb.
In mid-February, unknown perpetrators damaged an anti-fascist
monument at Srdoči in Rijeka by spraying “NDH” and the Ustasha
“U” over the names of those who died in World War Two. At the
site of a former partisan army camp turned into a memorial site
in Begovača near Pakrac, the monument – a five-pointed star –
was destroyed with sixteen shots fired from firearms into the star.
It had been the second time that the star was vandalised. 33
On the eve of the Anti-fascist Day (June 22), a memorial
ossuary of the liberation fighters from World War Two at the
Slavonski Brod cemetery was defaced with red paint. A partisan
monument at Adžijina street in Zagreb, renovated in 2014, was
also disfigured, its red star destroyed with a hammer and the
monument covered with graffiti of the Ustasha and Nazi insignia
and the slogan “Croatia needs lustration” (referring to the purge
of Communist-era officials in Central and Eastern Europe in the
1990s). Shortly after Zagreb celebrated the 70 th anniversary of
victory over fascism, someone sprayed black paint all over the
central monument to the victims of the fascist terror in Zagreb.
33 Havranek, Danijela, Shot
into the five-pointed star
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