From: malenovi@plains.NoDak.edu (Malenovic Nikola V.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Serbian Vojvodina ( VREME NDA 15 Sep 1992 )
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:03:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20377
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                  No. 51, September 14, 1992
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    Serbian Vojvodina
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    "At the  May Assembly, held  in Karlovci from  May 13 to  15 (1848), the
    Serbian people proclaimed themselves as politically free and independent
    within the frameworks of the Habsburg monarchy and Hungary and adopted a
    decision  on  the  creation  of  Serbian  Vojvodina  ,  made up of Srem,
    Baranja,  Backa  and  Banat.  The  Serbian  Metropolitan  's diocese was
    proclaimed  a  patriarchate  and  the  Metropolitan  became  the Serbian
    Patriarch. A colonel from the Ogulin  regiment in Lika was chosen as the
    Voivoda and a Supreme People's Committee of 48 members was set up as the
    Assembly's  executive body.  The Assembly  also decided  that the  Vlach
    (Romanian  )  people's  independence  be  recognized  and  that  Serbian
    Vojvodina enter  a political alliance...  based on freedom  and absolute
    equality, with the tripartite Kingdom.

    A delegation headed  by the Patriarch set  out the decisions of  the May
    Assembly  to  the  Croatian  Assembly  which  accepted them, even though
    during the  debate in the assembly  the question of Srem  as an integral
    part of Serbian Vojvodina, or rather the Kingdom of Slavonija as part of
    the Tripartite unity, cropped up. However, Emperor Ferdinand, who was at
    Innsbruck with his court, rejected the decisions of the May Assembly and
    refused to recognize the Serbs as a people..."

         (Slavko Garvilovic in the 1991 anthology of the Matica Srpska 1991)

    Vojvodina's Population (1991 Census)

        Serbs       1.151,353 57,25%
        Hungarian     340,946 16,94%
        Croats         97,644  4,85%
        Slovaks        63,941  3,17%
        Montenegrins   44,721  2,22%
        Romanians      38,831  1,92%
        Ruthenians     17,887  0,88%
        Macedonians    16,641  0,82%
        Yugoslavs     168,859  8,39%
        Others         71,703  3,56%

    Parameters of Colonization

    The  document  of  the  Serbian  Commissioner's  Office for Refugees (of
    August  9 this  year) explains  that the  plan for  the resettlement  of
    refugees  was made  up on  the basis  of the  conclusions adopted by the
    Serbian   government   in   June.   The   "potential  possibilities  for
    accommodation" were thus investigated in cooperation with the Republican
    Institute for  Development and compared with  the present situation. The
    "analysis" includes  the proportional participation  of the municipality
    in  the population  of the   republic, the  national per  capita income,
    employment rate,  percentage of flats in  the total number of  flats and
    participation in the number of households.

    The Democratic  Union of Vojvodina Hungarians  protested against a table
    drawn up in  such a way because it noted  that Senta, for example, could
    accommodate 2,836 refugees and now only had 140, Kanjiza 2,491 (compared
    to the  86 present there),  Backa Topola 3,398  (835), Mali Idjos  1,745
    (245) and so on. Interestingly, Subotica is not on the list.

    The  Hungarian community  in Vojvodina   did not  mention the  fact that
    similar disproportions have been noted  in many municipalities in Serbia
    too. If  what is concerned  is truly colonization,  then , for  example,
    Majdanpek  (eastern Serbia)  could expect  3,316 refugees,  but has only
    100, Raska 2,611 (30), Gadzin Han  1,882 (8), Babusnica 1,380 (76), Crna
    Trava 1,988 (0) , etc.

    The fact that the Commissioner's Office is asking for data on the "state
    and number  of facilities for  collective accommodation, the  number and
    structure of  elderly households etc."  seems to have  provoked the most

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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                  No. 51, September 14, 1992
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