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

SNV Bulletin #6 / 80
Latin script had been banned at mass execution sites of Serbs in
Jasenovac or Glina in 1946, Knežić decided to end the interview.
Soon after that, a new page on Facebook demanded almost
hysterically that Knežić be declared journalist of the year. The
public television’s (HTV) first channel broadcast at the start of
the year hate speech by actor and columnist Božidar Alić. Alić
was at the headquarters of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who had
just won the presidential election. He told HTV on camera: “Good
evening, Croatian ladies and gentlemen. I support Ms Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarović because I am the Homeland War volunteer; a
Croatian and a Catholic and I thank God that madam Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarović has triumphed over the forces of the UDBA
(former Yugoslav secret service), Serb-lovers and Chetniks. Long
live.” To which HTV journalist Katarina Periša Čakarun replied:
“Thank you very much.” The public is still showing considerable
interest in the TV show Bujica, produced by the Osijek television
and carried by almost all local TV stations. On January 30 Bujica
hosted Ante Prkačin, a general of HOS (Croatian wartime militia).
During the entire show a HOS flag with the inscription “For the
Homeland Ready” stood between the guest and the anchor.
“Gentlemen from Ostojić’s 16 police, come here within an hour so
I can see whether you will be able to remove this little flag from
my studio”, Bujanec said during the broadcast in which he and
Prkačin continued to rehabilitate this Ustasha salute. This is only
a small segment of the repertoire this show broadcast in the
course of 2015.
16 Ranko Ostojić,
Minister of interior
in Zoran Milanović’s
government
The growing trend of establishing Internet portals that promote
radical nationalism culminated in 2015. Dnevno.hr, which constantly
publishes content directed against the Serb community
in Croatia and its prominent members, has the fastest growing
audience and a leading role among such portals. This portal published
on September 11 the text “Pupovac is more poisonous than
the death cap (an untranslatable pun on Pupovac’s family name
in Croatian), the most poisonous mushroom in the Croatian soil!”
This portal frequently resorts to revisionism and glorification
of the Ustasha: on top of publishing a text by Tvrtko Tolić on
June 19 under the title “It is about time we revived the Ustasha
movement”, Dnevno.hr on several occasions referred to a commemoration
the SNV organises in Jadovno, a former Ustasha concentration
camp, as “an anti-fascist-Chetnik-communist feast”.
Texts published by this portal were on several occasions in 2015
on the agenda of the Council for Electronic Media (VEM), which
had earlier issued a warning related to its articles. VEM also took
an interest in Direktno.hr portal. At the start of 2015 Direktno.hr