The commemorations held on Sunday included wreath-laying ceremonies and commemorative religious services in tribute to the victims of the JNA aggression.
Exactly at 6 a.m. on 1 October 1991, Serb troops, situated in eastern Herzegovina bordering with the Dubrovnik area and Montenegrin units launched an all-out attack against this Adriatic city which has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1979. JNA forces carried out attacks from the ground, sea and air at the same time.
For the following several months, Dubrovnik residents were without enough water supplies and electricity and telephone connections were also cut off.
During the siege, over 300 Croatian soldiers and residents were killed, 33,000 people had to flee their homes, and 336 captured Dubrovnikians were taken to Serb-held detention camps in Bileca and Morinje.
The nongovernmental organisation in Belgrade called "Women in Black" also on Sunday commemorated the 15th anniversary of the start of the three-month-long siege of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik.
In a press release issued in Serbia, this NGO recalled that for 14 centuries Dubrovnik had not been a target of military attacks and in 1991 it was exposed to all-out assaults by the JNA.
Only four JNA members have so far been accused by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for these atrocities, the NGO said adding that "Blagoje Adzic, Borislav Jovic, Veljko Kadijevic and Aleksandar Vasiljevic, the commanders and masterminds of the Dubrovnik (war) crimes live in Serbia".
On this occasion, the NGO called on Serbian authorities to follow the example set by Montenegro's leadership that offered an apology for what had been done in 1991 and 1992 in Dubrovnik.