Glavasevic, who was a journalist of the local radio station reporting every day to the rest of Croatia about the months-long siege of Vukovar, and the other 199 victims were taken by Serb forces from the Vukovar hospital on 19 November to the Ovcara farm, outside the town, to be executed a day after.
Addressing today's meeting, the Croatian Radio Vukovar (HRV), Janos Kery, said that although it seemed now that much was known about Sinisa Glavasevic and the local radio from the period of the war, there was still much to be discovered and to be written about Glavasevic and other workers of the radio that was the only media source for reports on the suffering on Vukovar, its residents and people who were defending it against the occupying forces in 1991.
The Croatian Journalists' Association head, Zdenko Duka, said that during the Homeland Defence War, 14 Croatian reporters were killed or died of wounds and that also several foreign correspondents, including correspondents for Serbian media, died during the war.
"Thanks to Sinisa Glavasevic, we had a feeling that we were close to Vukovar and that the fate of Vukovar was our fate, too," Duka said.
Journalist and essayist Sinisa Glavasevic was born in Vukovar on 4 November 1960. He was an editor and wartime reporter of the Radio Vukovar.
His body was exhumed from the Ovcara mass grave after the war.
A documentary about this brave journalist, directed by Visnja Staresina, was premiered in Vukovar last Wednesday.
Meetings of reporters and writers in tribute to Glavasevic have been organised annually in his home town since 2005.