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(2 Feb 2013) Vukovar - 2 February 2013 ++16:9++ 1. Various of thousands of people taking part in protest against Cyrillic spelling of Vukovar 2. Croatian war veterans holding flags 3. Mid of protesters holding banner reading: (Croatian) "This is not Serbia" 4. Mid of protesters holding banner reading: (Croatian) "Vukovar is not (written in Cyrillic) Vukovar" 5. Close of Croatian war veteran 6. Wide of protest, flags 7. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mara Jurcic, mother of war victim: "I can't stand this. I can't even look at them (Serbs). And now they want Cyrillic here? They spilled the blood of our sons, of our men. Our neighbours. I don't like them at all. If they did not kill people, they could have lived here with no problem." 8. Wide of protesters holding banners showing pictures of graves and Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Ivan Cermak 9. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Adolf Skrgo, protester: "We came here to say that Cyrillic cannot be implemented here. I think at least 50 years must pass, and only then we can even sit and talk about Cyrillic. Otherwise, nothing." 10. Wide of protest 11. Various of destroyed water tower 12. Various of destroyed house 13. Mid of Serb flags flying on Serb National Council building in Vukovar 14. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Srdjan Milakovic, president of the Serb National Council in Vukovar: "We do not want to create tension or provoke any incidents here. We are not threatening or endangering this society, but in any case, we are being very careful, we are taking care of the security of our community." 15. Various of Serb 'Maternity' monument by Jovan Soldatovic 16. Wide of cross, memorial to Croatian war victims from Vukovar 17. War veterans arriving at monument 18. Wreath laying ceremony 19. Low shot of candles, wreath in background 20. Mid of man holding sign, reading: (Croatian) "Vukovar, but not (written in Cyrillic) Vukovar" 21. Mid of prayers for victims of war 22. Low shot of cross FILE: Vukovar - 25 November 1991 ++4:3++ 23. Mid of damaged truck, zoom out to wide of Vukovar hospital after it was taken over by Serb forces 24. Mid of ambulances outside hospital where 500 sick and wounded were trapped during Serb forces' advance 25. Mutilated bodies among hundreds of dead at Vukovar hospital 26. Mid of destroyed buildings 27. Destroyed vehicles 28. Wide of destroyed Vukovar town hall STORYLINE: Thousands of flag-waving protesters demonstrated in war-scarred Vukovar on Saturday against writing the name of their town in the Cyrillic alphabet. Whether the name of the Danube town is written 'Vukovar' in the Latin or 'Bykobap' in the Cyrillic alphabet is a sensitive question. Croatia's upcoming entry into the European Union is forcing residents of the Balkan country to answer it. More than 20 years after it was reduced to rubble in a brutal Serb-led army siege, Vukovar is testing if Croatians are ready to respect the EU's standards on minority rights when their country joins as the 28th member on July 1. The Croatian government is trying to introduce Serbian Cyrillic writing into areas with sizeable ethnic Serb communities, a move that has infuriated Croatia's war veterans and nationalists. Unlike ethnic Croats, the minority Serbs use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is influenced by Orthodox Christianity and also used by Russians. Though Vukovar, for instance, sounds the same in both alphabets, in Cyrillic it is written Bykobap. Saturday's protest was organised by veteran groups, Vukovar wartime defenders and hardline politicians. Vukovar, located on the boundary with Serbia, took the first blow. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...