March 1999
Vol. 11, No. 3 (D)

 

CROATIA
SECOND CLASS CITIZENS: THE SERBS OF CROATIA
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SUMMARY

RECOMMENDATIONS

BACKGROUND

SECURITY
“Soft Evictions” in Eastern Slavonia
Harassment and Intimidation in Krajina
Police Concerns in Banija-Kordun
Uneven Security in Western Slavonia
Ethnically-Related Murders
Standards of Policing
Uninhabitable Housing Stock
Assignment of Private Property for “Temporary Use”
Lost Tenancy Rights
Housing and Internally Displaced Persons: “One-way Return”
Housing Components of the Program for Return
The Functioning of Housing Commissions
Legal Constraints on the Program for Return
Access to Government Reconstruction Assistance
Donor Conditionality and the Program for Reconstruction
Citizenship and Naturalization
Assignment of Privately-Owned Agricultural Land

CONFIDENCE-BUILDING MEASURES
Law on Convalidation
The Program on the Establishment of Trust

THE RETURN OF REFUGEES
Mechanisms for Return
Ongoing Obstacles to Return
Refugee Return in Former Sector South
Domiciled Serbs Leaving Eastern Slavonia

THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
OSCE Mission to Croatia
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Return Facilitation Group
The European Union
The United States

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS