Bleiburg Remembrance Day is observed in tribute to fleeing Croatian soldiers and civilians who were handed over by allied forces in Austria to Tito's Partisans at the end of the Second World War. Thousands of them were killed by Partisans without trial in the Bleiburg field and during so-called death marches back to Yugoslavia.
ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - Bleiburg Remembrance Day, commemorating Croatskilled in a field near Bleiburg, Austria, in May 1945, will be markedat a Croatian Parliament-sponsored ceremony at Bleiburg on Sunday. TheAuxiliary Bishop of
Zagreb, Josip Mrzljak, will say Mass.
ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - Bleiburg Remembrance Day, commemorating
Croats killed in a field near Bleiburg, Austria, in May 1945, will be marked at
a Croatian Parliament-sponsored ceremony at Bleiburg on Sunday. The Auxiliary
Bishop of Zagreb, Josip Mrzljak, will say Mass.