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Imifelandawonye yebhola laseCroatia neyaseSerbia ihlawuliswe yikomiti lokuqondisa izigwegwe leFIFA ngoLwesithathu ngezigameko ezihlanganisa ukuchukuluza kwezinhlanga eNdebeni yoMhlaba.
I-FIFA ihlawulise ama-Croatians 50,000 francs Swiss (€50,580) ngemuva kokuthi abalandeli beqembu bethuka futhi beklolodela unozinti waseCanada uMilan Borjan, onobudlelwane bomndeni wamaSerb.
Umfelandawonye webhola lezinyawo wase-Serbia uhlawuliswe u-20,000 Swiss francs (€20,230) ngesibhengezo sezepolitiki esimayelana ne-Kosovo engumakhelwane eboniswe egumbini lokushintshela ngaphambi kokudlala neBrazil kumdlalo wokuvula weqembu.
Isibhengezo esinemibala yesi-Serbian sibonise ibalazwe lezwe elihlanganisa indawo yesifundazwe salo sangaphambili, osekuyiminyaka engaba ngu-15 siyizwe elizimele, kanye nesiqubulo esithi “No Surrender”.
I-Kosovo, enabantu abaningi base-Albania, ibilokhu ingaphansi kokuvikelwa kwe-NATO kusukela ngo-1999 kanye nokuhoxiswa kwamasosha aseBelgrade ngaphansi komyalo weqhawe likaMongameli uSlobodan Milošević.
Yize amazwe amaningi — okuhlanganisa amazwe amaningi angamalungu e-EU, i-UK kanye ne-US — ebona ukuzimela kwawo, iSerbia isaqhubeka nokwenqaba ukwenza lokho, kanye nabantu abafana neRussia neChina.
Umfelandawonye webhola lezinyawo waseKosovo ukhale ngokusemthethweni kuFIFA ngalesi sibhengezo, esalengiswa phezu kwamalokha abadlali ababili baseSerbia ngomhla zingama-24 kuLwezi.
I-FIFA ithe icala elibhekene neCroatia lihlobene “nokusetshenziswa kwamagama nezinto ukudlulisa umyalezo ongafanele umcimbi wezemidlalo”.
U-Borjan waseCanada wazalelwa endaweni yaseCroatia enamaphesenti amaningi abantu bohlanga lwamaSerb, okungenye yezindawo ezincane kakhulu zezwe laseBalkan.
Yena nomndeni wakhe bashiya idolobha lakubo i-Knin ngo-1995 lapho lithathwa amabutho aseCroatia ngesikhathi se-Operation Storm. AmaSerb ezinhlanga abaleke ngogandaganda, phakathi kwezinye izindlela.
Ngesikhathi iCanada ihlulwa ngo 4-1 yiCroatia ngomhla zingama-27 kuLwezi, isibhengezo esisodwa esavezwa abalandeli baseCroatia sasebenzisa ilogo yomkhiqizi kagandaganda u-John Deere futhi sashintsha isiqubulo sokumaketha ukuze siqondise ku-Borjan.
Abalandeli baphinde bacula bathi “u-Borjan uyi-Ustasha,” ireferensi eyindida yenhlangano yamafascist yase-Croatia yeMpi Yezwe II eyahola lokho okubizwa nge-Independent State of Croatia noma i-NDH, izwe lonodoli baseJalimane lobuNazi.
Iziphathimandla ze-NDH zaqhuba amakamu okuhlushwa amaJuda, amaSerb ezinhlanga, amaRom kanye nabanye abancane, kuhlanganise ne-Jasenovac, ebhekwa njengephakathi kwamakamu amakhulu ayishumi eYurophu.
I-FIFA iphinde yahlawulisa i-Saudi Arabia u-30,000 Swiss francs (€30,350) “ngokungaziphathi kahle kweqembu” ngemuva kokuthola amakhadi aphuzi ayisithupha emidlalweni ebhekene ne-Argentina ne-Mexico.
