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NGO stages commemoration in tribute to war victims in ex-Yugoslavia

BELGRADE, Oct 9 (Hina) - The nongovernmental organisation Fund for Humanitarian Law, whose acronym is FHP, on Sunday evening staged a commemorative event outside the Serbian Presidency's building in Belgrade to pay homage to victims killed in the wars in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
BELGRADE, Oct 9 (Hina) - The nongovernmental organisation Fund for Humanitarian Law, whose acronym is FHP, on Sunday evening staged a commemorative event outside the Serbian Presidency's building in Belgrade to pay homage to victims killed in the wars in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The commemoration, including a candle-lighting ceremony, also marked the anniversary of the start of four-month anti-war protests which began in Belgrade on 8 October 1991.

On that day 15 years ago, a group of citizens began protesting in front of the Serbian Presidency headquarters against the forcible mobilisation and deployment of Serbian citizens in the war in Croatia.

From 8 October 1991 to 8 February 1992, the protesters read out the names of those killed in the war and expressed solidarity with all who protested against the war.

During those four months, over 3,000 names of people who lost their lives in the war in Croatia were read out, the Fund's chairwoman, Natasa Kandic, said last night.

The commemoration demonstrates our wish to keep the memory of the previous period as a part of our historical remembrance and we want to show the current and future governments that those who may try to use society and means the way Slobodan Milosevic did, will face opposition in Serbia, Kandic told reporters.

The event also paid tribute to Miroslav Milenkovic, a forcibly mobilised man who committed suicide with a gun he was given as a soldier when he arrived with his unit in the town of Sid on the border with Croatia.

Milenkovic walked out of the rank and shot himself dead in front of other mobilised soldiers.

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