VUKOVAR, May 11 (Hina) - Peaceful protests, staged by Croatian returnees to Berak, a village in Vukovar-Srijem County in eastern Croatia, which began on May 7, are beginning to spread to Vukovar. Pero Cavar from Berak started a hunger
strike in front of the police building in Vukovar. About 15 fellow villagers arrived in Vukovar on Tuesday to support Cavar. Cavar started the hunger strike to force authorities to accelerate the process of revealing the truth about the fate of 29 Croatians from Berak, registered as missing persons. Their whereabouts have been unknown since the Serb occupation of the village. Cavar is on the hunger strike also because he was arrested several days ago for an incident which took place on May 8, when a group of protesters physically attacked a fellow villager of Serb nationality, Ilija Mirilovic. About 300 returnees to Berak have been protesting since May 7, to show their indignation at the fact
VUKOVAR, May 11 (Hina) - Peaceful protests, staged by Croatian
returnees to Berak, a village in Vukovar-Srijem County in eastern
Croatia, which began on May 7, are beginning to spread to Vukovar.
Pero Cavar from Berak started a hunger strike in front of the police
building in Vukovar. About 15 fellow villagers arrived in Vukovar
on Tuesday to support Cavar.
Cavar started the hunger strike to force authorities to accelerate
the process of revealing the truth about the fate of 29 Croatians
from Berak, registered as missing persons. Their whereabouts have
been unknown since the Serb occupation of the village. Cavar is on
the hunger strike also because he was arrested several days ago for
an incident which took place on May 8, when a group of protesters
physically attacked a fellow villager of Serb nationality, Ilija
Mirilovic.
About 300 returnees to Berak have been protesting since May 7, to
show their indignation at the fact that none of the local Serbs, who
they suspect of complicity in the killings, persecution and
harassment of Croats during the Serb aggression against eastern
Croatia earlier this decade, including their village, have so far
been brought to justice.
They staged the rally in Berak in the wake of a recent discovery of a
mass grave in the village.
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