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| 25,000 protest against Cyrillic signs in Vukovar |
| 2013-04-08 |
| Some 25,000 people staged a demonstration Sunday against plans to introduce street signs written in the Cyrillic alphabet for the minority ethnic Serbs of Vukovar, a Croatian town devastated by Serb rebels in the 1990s. The protestors, many of them veterans of Croatia's 1991-95 war wearing their wartime uniforms, demanded that Vukovar be exempted from a law requiring the use of Cyrillic where Serbs make up one-third of an urban population. The organizers' spokesman, Dragutin Glasnovic, said, "There's no way that we accept Cyrillic. Vukovar should be treated differently due to a special respect for its victims on which Croatia was founded." Rebel Serbs opposed to Croatia's independence bid captured Vukovar after a bloody three-month siege, marking the start of the war, which claimed some 20,000 lives. The protestors arrived from all across Croatia. Many wore T-shirts with the inscription "For a Croatian Vukovar - No to Cyrillic" and chanted the town's name. A giant banner reading "Vukovar will never be Vukovar (in Cyrillic)" was raised in Zagreb's main square. The government has repeatedly said it would proceed with its plans to begin using Cyrillic on signs in Vukovar, but veterans have threatened to remove them by force. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Sure. We kept spanish street signs out of SoCal. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-04-08 06:43 |