Destruction of books in post-independence Croatia  Mass destruction of books occurred in Croatia in the period leading up to and following its independence from Yugoslavia. The events have been termed as a in Serbo-Croatian, translateable as "libricide" or "bibliocide" in English. The destructions began in 1990, shortly before the Croatian War of Independence and lasted during the first 19 years after Croatia became independent in 1991. All destroyed books had one of following things in common, they were written in Serbian Cyrillic or ekavian dialect or published by non-Croatian publishers and particularly ideological literature. According to Ante Lešaja destroyed books were estimated to be around 13,8% of all books in libraries in Croatia. Nobody has been held responsible for the destruction of cultural heritage. Many public notable intellectuals objected to this practice, most notably Milan Kangrga, while some emphasized that the majority in Croatia remained silent about it. Miljenko Jergović referred to the cleansing of Croatian libraries from unsuitable books as the supreme cultural crime. Viktor Ivančić perceived lack of books published in Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina in Croatian bookstores in 2012 as an extension of the destruction campaign. In 1992 the Croatian Government issued "Obligatory Instructions on Use of Library Found of School Libraries" to remove literature published in Serbia, on ekavian dialect or on Serbian language and Serbian Cyrillic script. In 1997 Croatian minister of finance Borislav Škegr stated that the Croatian Government will finance elimination of books on Serbian and similar languages from libraries in Croatia. Bryant pointed to debate about what languages might be considered as "similar" to Serbian. Books by Serb authors were destroyed, as well as books by Ivo Andrić, books related to the history of Yugoslavia and the NOB (Yugoslavian Liberation War), socialist and Marxist theory books, etc.  Destruction of books included books in private libraries, one of most notable being the case of the private library of Radomir Konstantinović in Rovinj, Istria. Many notable intellectuals objected to this practice, including Milan Kangrga. Their objections were fruitless and in some cases, they were punished for their objections. The most notable case is Kangrga who was put on trial for many years by the Croatian judicial system without basic elements for the trial. In 2003 the "Prosvjeta" magazine published a special issue dedicated to "Bibliocide-Culturecide: Where One Burn Books, One Will Soon Burn People".