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artappraiser — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 05:38:30 +0000

Croatia beat Serbia in acrimonious football game
BBC News, March 22, 2013

[....] And despite repeated appeals by the Croatian football authorities to respect the visiting side, the home crowd soon started singing fascist songs from the 1940s - when tens of thousands of Serbs died in Croatia at the hands of the Ustasa militias.

Police had warned they would stop the game under these circumstances - but they did not, the BBC's Guy De Launey reports from Zagreb.

The European football governing body, Uefa, may take a dimmer view - or it may just be satisfied that there were no violent incidents on or off the pitch, our correspondent adds. [....]

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artappraiser — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:59:01 +0000

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Amid ‘Kill’ Chants, Croatia and Serbia Set Peaceful Example
By James Montague, New York Times Sports, March 22/23, 2013

ZAGREB, Croatia — For all the talk of conciliation, for all the pleas for tolerance before the game and for all the statements from players and coaches that the war should take a back seat to the soccer, the crowd at the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb found it harder to forget and forgive on Friday [....]

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