ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croat war veterans on Tuesday lost their bid to hold a referendum that would have tightened restrictions on the use of Cyrillic language signs in areas of Croatia populated by the Serb minority.
While their referendum would have applied to whole country, the group has specifically opposed the Social Democrat-led government's efforts to put up such signs in Vukovar, where inter-communal tensions still smoulder, gathering more than 500,000 signatures to support a vote.
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