PUZIGAĆA: EU SHOULD ORDER CROATIA TO REVOKE CEMETERY LAW

BANJA LUKA, JULY 25 /SRNA/ – The EU should order Croatia to revoke the Cemetery Law, which discriminates against Serbs and their basic human rights in Croatia, Nikola Puzigaća, President of the Association of Workers and Disabled Workers Fled from Croatia Holding BiH Citizenship, believes.

"The EU should publicly oppose this law and protect Serbian cemeteries in Croatia, just as cemeteries are protected everywhere in the democratic world. In the US, there are Serbian monuments with Cyrillic inscriptions and content, and no one is bothered by them," Puzigaća told SRNA. He noted that Republika Srpska, unlike Croatia, has demonstrated that it is a democratic country, as there is a monument to fallen HVO members with a checkerboard emblem near Derventa, which does not violate the rights of Serbs. "Croatia has for years obstructed even the acquired rights of Serbs related to the return of apartments, property, payment of pensions, work experience, and privatization of companies, which is why the EU should punish Croatia by withholding all EU assistance funds," Puzigaća concluded. The Croatian Parliament previously adopted the Cemetery Law, which stipulates the removal of Serbian monuments erected after May 30, 1990, and if the grave owners do not comply, they face fines of up to EUR 5,000. This law, which has provoked reactions from the Serb side, stipulates that grave owners must remove tombstones if the inscriptions on them, as stated, offend the religious, moral, and national feelings of Croats.