I beg you to read and,
if possible, forward all this to others:
In spite of the US Congress' H. Res. 562 (1998) and the
Resolution 1096 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (1996), some nationalized property in Croatia is
not returned to the owners, and also some other possessions
(the tenantship rights) are seized from the tenants, whose
complaints are ignored by the new coalition government (since January 2000). Our letters are seldom published
in the newspapers; (the freedom of press
is insufficient).
Below is an English
translation of a letter that
I sent to the paper Novi list three times since February
22, 2002 (by registered
mail and e-mail):
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" To the editors of NOVI LIST, Rijeka, Zvonimirova 20/A
" Zagreb, February 22, 2002
" I beg all citizens, political parties, the Sabor (=Parliament),
the Cabinet, and all others, to think and reply to the
following: Can there be anything more simple than returning (by the State) to me
and my family everything that we had acquired
honestly and forever, which is seized from us without any reasonable cause or justification - the more
so, because the return would cost nothing either the State or anybody
else ?
"After my-mother's death in
1982, the original owner of the flat
(now defunct) transferred the tenantship right upon myself by a contract,
made of her own free will and in conformity
with the then laws. That has
not been seized from the owner and cannot be "returned" to
anybody. Her certified signature is on the contract; everything
is correct, nothing has ever been disputed.
" [ At the Internet-address https://soric-b.tripod.com/prijava/ you
can find some details (in Croatian)
that are omitted here in order to save space. Everything
can easily be checked ].
"By the
Law on Renting Flats (1996) the tenantship rights have been abolished, although the nationalized flats have
not been returned to the original
owners ! The changing of this bad law has been expected for some years now. It was proposed in
the Sabor (by the SDP party
and others, in 1998- 1999) that all the tenantship-right holders must get equal rights to cheaply
buy their flats, while the nominal
owners must get a market-value compensation by the State. This is being postponed;
- perhaps (pretendedly) "there is no money" for the compensation ? But no money is needed for returning to me,
immediately and fully (by changing the bad laws), the tenantship right that was seized from me quite unnecessarily and with no reason at all ! Everything is quite clear - especially in my case - so what are they
waiting for ?
Why are psychical pains and a property-damage of more than 150,000 EUR being inflicted upon me and my family, unnecessarily and unjustifiably, through a number of
years ?!
"The tenantship right, especially that which has been given
by an original owner of his/her free will, is not - and cannot be (!) - contrary to the Constitution of the Republic
of Croatia
!
"You
can read more on that (in
English and Croatian) at the Internet-addresses https://soric-b.tripod.com/bs/ and
https://soric-b.tripod.com/start/ as well as on the discrimination
against tenants and the proposals made in the Sabor (=
Parliament)
Dr.med. Branko Soric, Zagreb
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"I beg Novi list to publish the above letter, because there is a problem
that should be dealt with
almost daily in the newspapers. How can I realize my constitutional right of free speech, of freely
expressing my opinions and communicating them to the public,
if you will not make it possible for me ?
"( If, perhaps, you have cheaply bought a public-property flat, or a
nationa-lized flat, please, think how
you would feel in my position
! )
"The journalists should
also write about that problem as
much and as often as possible! Thank you very much!
Branko Soric "
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The END of the letter to Novi list )
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If possible, please, forward this whole text to others !
I ALSO
BEG EVERYBODY FOR ANY POSSIBLE HELP.
Thank you very much !
With best regards
Dr.med. Branko
Soric
Vlaska
84 / I
10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA
E-mail: branko.soric@zg.t-com.hr
Internet: https://soric-b.tripod.com/bs/
https://soric-b.tripod.com/start/
https://soric-b.tripod.com/prijava/ etc.
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