The World - News from July 10, 1989
A Serbian festival in the Croatian town of Knin turned into a protest by tens of thousands of Serbs, stoking tensions between Yugoslavia’s two largest nationalities. The Serbs streamed into Knin from all over Yugoslavia and waved flags and banners with political slogans and pictures of Slobodan Milosevic, the populist president of Serbia, Yugoslavia’s biggest republic. Serbs form only a 600,000 minority of Croatia’s 4.6 million population. Protesters said Serbs are subjected to discrimination and cultural assimilation in Croatia, Serbia’s main rival in the power struggle among the Communist country’s many ethnic groups.
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