E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 72 In spite of its effort to ensure the equality of all religions and to encourage ethnic and religious tolerance, the Republic of Croatia became the victim of a brutal Serbian aggression, which has resulted in a violation of guaranteed freedoms and human rights in respect of many citizens of Croatia. The Republic of Croatia has become a victim of the heinous crime of ’ethnic cleansing’ and a deliberate campaign of national and religious hatred instigated by Serbian extremists and the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). Targets of violations were the sacral objects in the Republic of Croatia and, according to incomplete data (because part of the Croatian territory is still beyond control of the Croatian Government), 574 of them were damaged and destroyed by the Serbian extremists and the Yugoslav Army. The Government of the Republic of Croatia is making every effort to combat prejudice in order to restore ethnic harmony and to encourage tolerance and understanding among all citizens of Croatia, in particular tolerance between Croats and part of Croatia’s Serbian minority. One of the measures designed to encourage understanding and tolerance in respect of freedom of religion or belief is the organization of forums for discussion, seminars round table discussions, symposiums and religious manifestations." SPAIN 30. On 15 June 1994, the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations Office at Geneva sent the Special Rapporteur a communication from the Department of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Justice and the Interior, dated 24 May 1994, the text reads: "The guarantees adopted by Spain with regard to freedom of conscience, religion and worship for individuals and for the religious communities to which they belong derive from the 1978 Spanish Constitution and the additional regulations thereto, the most important of which is the Organization Act on Religious Freedom of 5 July 1980. The Constitution embodies the principles of freedom of religion and equality of religions, which are the basis of relations between the State and citizens, on the one hand, and between the State and religious denominations on the other, subject to no other restrictions than those dictated by respect for the rights of others and the need to preserve public order in a democratic and pluralist society. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion are public freedoms and fundamental rights, which the authorities are required to respect and which, if they are violated, may justify an application for amparo before the Constitutional Court. The right to religious freedom is manifested in the right of everyone to profess a religious belief, to change his belief or to abandon it and even, if he so wishes, not to profess any belief, without constraint, and in the right not to be compelled to make a declaration about his ideology, religion or belief, not to practise a religion or to receive religious instruction against his will, and not to be discriminated against on the basis of his professed religion or his failure to profess any.