ZAGREB ZAGREB, Feb 15 (Hina) - A mass for Croatia's war veterans, which was to be served in the Zagreb cathedral before a Thursday protest rally in front of the government building nearby, was not served as the rally organisers failed
to notify the archbishop's office. Zagreb diocese general vicar Vladimir Stankovic said they learned that a mass was supposed to be celebrated only after people had started gathering in the cathedral. The protesters who got inside the cathedral were very surprised to find that no mass would be celebrated. The rally was organised by a national body coordinating war veterans associations to protest the issuing of an arrest warrant for Mirko Norac, a retired general suspected of war crimes committed against civilians in 1991, and the "criminalisation of the Homeland Defence War", Croatia's early 1990s war of independence from the ex-Yugoslavia.(hina) ha sb
ZAGREB, Feb 15 (Hina) - A mass for Croatia's war veterans, which was
to be served in the Zagreb cathedral before a Thursday protest rally
in front of the government building nearby, was not served as the
rally organisers failed to notify the archbishop's office.
Zagreb diocese general vicar Vladimir Stankovic said they learned
that a mass was supposed to be celebrated only after people had
started gathering in the cathedral.
The protesters who got inside the cathedral were very surprised to
find that no mass would be celebrated.
The rally was organised by a national body coordinating war
veterans associations to protest the issuing of an arrest warrant
for Mirko Norac, a retired general suspected of war crimes
committed against civilians in 1991, and the "criminalisation of
the Homeland Defence War", Croatia's early 1990s war of
independence from the ex-Yugoslavia.
(hina) ha sb