DUBROVNIK, May 10 (Hina) - The first convention of civilian victims of the Serbian aggression on Croatia earlier this decade began in the southern Croatian port of Dubrovnik on Monday. Opening the conference, the president of the
Alliance of Associations of Croatian Civilian Victims, Julijana Rosandic, said civilian war victims have almost no rights at all due to the lack of a law by which they could exert them. The first day of the conference tackled the suffering of children. Between May 1991 and September 1996, 306 children were killed in Croatia, while 200 were injured. The number of injured children rose to 1,276 after the war, and the figure will rise further due to the high number of unexploded mines. The civilian victims of such devices are 560, of whom 179 died, including 29 children. The two-day conference began with a film on civilian suffering during Croatia's Homeland War. T
DUBROVNIK, May 10 (Hina) - The first convention of civilian victims
of the Serbian aggression on Croatia earlier this decade began in
the southern Croatian port of Dubrovnik on Monday.
Opening the conference, the president of the Alliance of
Associations of Croatian Civilian Victims, Julijana Rosandic, said
civilian war victims have almost no rights at all due to the lack of
a law by which they could exert them.
The first day of the conference tackled the suffering of children.
Between May 1991 and September 1996, 306 children were killed in
Croatia, while 200 were injured. The number of injured children
rose to 1,276 after the war, and the figure will rise further due to
the high number of unexploded mines. The civilian victims of such
devices are 560, of whom 179 died, including 29 children.
The two-day conference began with a film on civilian suffering
during Croatia's Homeland War.
The survivors of Serbian concentration camps will speak, as will
the families of the killed, and Homeland War invalids. Also tackled
will be exhumations, the return of refugees and displaced persons
to their pre-war homes, and legislation concerning civilian
victims.
The conclusions of the conference will be forwarded to the
government and parliament.
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