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<p class="" style="color:rgb(113,112,112);padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-size:11px;line-height:11px">September 03, 2013</p></div><div id="ctl00_ctl00_cpAB_cp1_cbcContentBreak" style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><div class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 135px">
<span class="" style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:45px;line-height:42px;font-weight:bold;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;display:block;padding-right:3px;float:left">D</span>ozens of Croat war veterans have protested in the Croatian town of Vukovar against signs that were written in both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets. <br>
<br>The rally on September 3 comes a day after protesters in Vukovar clashed with police as they destroyed several signs in official buildings.<br><br>The Croatian and Serbian languages are similar, but Croats use the Latin alphabet while Serbs use Cyrillic.<br>
<br>The protesters want Vukovar to be exempted from a law stipulating the use of Cyrillic in areas where Serbs make up at least one-third of the population.<br><br>Vukovar was devastated by Serbian rebels during Croatia's war for independence in the 1990s.<br>
<br>The city has been rebuilt but ethnic tensions remain.<br><br>Ethnic Serbs make up some 4 percent of Croatia's population of 4.2 million.<br><h6 style="padding:0px;margin:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:13px;font-size:10px">
<br><br>Based on reporting by AFP, AP, Reuters, and RFE/RL's Balkan Service</h6><h6 style="padding:0px;margin:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:13px;font-size:10px"><br></h6><h6 style="padding:0px;margin:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:13px;font-size:10px">
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</div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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