VUKOVARTHIRTEEN YEARS OF SERB AGGRESSION ON VUKOVAR MARKEDVUKOVAR, Nov 18 (Hina) - Numerous officials of the Vukovar SrijemCounty on Thursday paid their respects to soldiers and civilianskilled in the defence of Vukovar by laying
wreaths at the town'sHomeland War Victims' Memorial Cemetery, marking 13 years of the Serbaggression on the eastern town.
VUKOVAR, Nov 18 (Hina) - Numerous officials of the Vukovar Srijem
County on Thursday paid their respects to soldiers and civilians killed in the
defence of Vukovar by laying wreaths at the town's Homeland War Victims'
Memorial Cemetery, marking 13 years of the Serb aggression on the eastern
town.Holly Mass will served by Dubrovnik bishop Zelimir Puljic.
At least 1,600 soldiers and civilians were killed in the defence of
Vukovar. Thousands of people were wounded, more than 20,000 Croats and other
non-Serbs were exiled, thousands of soldiers and civilians were detained in
Serb concentration camps, while about 500 are still listed as missing.
This year Remembrance Day for Vukovar's Victims of 1991 is marked under
the motto "Sound All the Bells".
Parliament decided in 1998 that November 18 would be commemorated as
Remembrance Day for Vukovar's Victims of 1991.