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Article: CROATIA: CROATIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES MINORITY RIGHTS LAW.(Brief Article)
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- Article date:
- May 14, 2000
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The legislature approved a package of government proposals on 11 May to guarantee minority rights according to European standards. The measures deal with minorities' cultural, educational, and linguistic rights and restore an earlier law that guarantees proportional representation in the parliament to minorities who constitute more than 8 percent of the population, which in practice means the Serbs. The Serbs made up 12 percent of the population in 1991, but most fled to Serbia or Bosnia after the 1995 Croatian army offensives that recaptured rebel territory. Many Serbs now wish to return or ...
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