BERAK, July 10 (Hina) - Sixteen victims of the aggression Serbia waged against Croatia earlier this decade were buried in Berak, a village in eastern Croatia, on Saturday. The bodies of the victims, killed in October 1991, were
exhumed in the village and the surrounding area, and identified last month. The victims, which include seven soldiers, six members of the Civil Defence, and three civilians, were buried at the local Catholic cemetery with the highest military honours. In attendance, alongside relatives, local residents, and representatives of victims' associations, were delegates of the government, parliament, the Homeland War Veterans, Defence, and Interior Ministries, and local officials. Veterans Minister Juraj Njavro reminded 120 mass graves have been discovered in Croatia to date, adding the search was still on for 1,717 persons. The remains buried today are the guar
BERAK, July 10 (Hina) - Sixteen victims of the aggression Serbia
waged against Croatia earlier this decade were buried in Berak, a
village in eastern Croatia, on Saturday.
The bodies of the victims, killed in October 1991, were exhumed in
the village and the surrounding area, and identified last month.
The victims, which include seven soldiers, six members of the Civil
Defence, and three civilians, were buried at the local Catholic
cemetery with the highest military honours.
In attendance, alongside relatives, local residents, and
representatives of victims' associations, were delegates of the
government, parliament, the Homeland War Veterans, Defence, and
Interior Ministries, and local officials.
Veterans Minister Juraj Njavro reminded 120 mass graves have been
discovered in Croatia to date, adding the search was still on for
1,717 persons.
The remains buried today are the guarantee that neither Berak, nor
Ovcara, Skabrnja, or Kijevo will happen ever again, he said.
We must not forget these victims, otherwise their sacrifice will
have been in vain, Njavro stressed.
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