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A week ago there was a news report on SBS TV about the Serbian's
community rally to protest against Dr.Tudjman's official visit and they
particularly attacked the federal government's act of actually inviting
him.  Their plan is to hold a protest rally and I presume it will be
supported by the Greek community.

Few days ago , there was a Government news release that the Government
does not approve of the rally taking place at all, so I am not sure how
they are going to prevent this. The Croatian community outnumbers the
Serbian by far, so if they decide to organise parallel welcoming
manifestations, I guess there'll be fireworks to watch and the police
will definitely intervene.  Apart from occasional soccer brawls, this
would definitely be a major flashpoint for direct ethnic conflict between
the respective communities, ever since the conflict began.

Certainly the Croatian-Serbian and Macedonian-Greek inter-ethnic
relations in Australia have been the most disruptive and violent in
Australia's history of public order and conduct.

Todd Mickov

Approx. census data of the communities:

Macedonians in AUS: ~ 150,000 to 200,000
Croatians in AUS:  ~ 100,000
Serbs in AUS: ~30,000 to 50,000
Greeks in AUS: ~300,000 to 400,000


On Sun, 28 May 1995, Vladimir Vuksan wrote:

> By Harry T. on a.n.m. :
>
> Next month croatian-Fascist 'Tudjzman' plans to visit Australia
> and take the side of the Skopjeans in the Macedonian issue,
> and voice his 'opinion' that the Skopjeans have not
> been given full their full 'human-rights'.
>
> Riots are expected.
>  ...where protesters Greek+Serbian will be put
> against the Skopjean+Croatian+Turk groups.
>
> A newspaper-article will be posted shortly.
> =====================
>
> Does anybody have any further information about this ? I mean prepared
> riots ?
>
>
> Vladimir Vuksan
>