RELEASE OF 665 CRO INMATES FROM SERB CAMPS MARKED IN E. CROATIA

VUKOVAR, Aug 14 (Hina) - The Croatian Association of Former Inmates of Serbian Concentration Camps on Saturday marked the seventh anniversary of the release of the last major group of 665 inmates, who were exchanged near Nemetin, eastern Croatia, on August 14, 1992. Some 10,000 Croatian soldiers and civilians passed through Serbian concentration camps during Croatia's Homeland War earlier this decade. The president of the Association, Danijel Rehak, told a commemorative session in Borovo Naselje some 300 Croatian soldiers and civilians were killed in Serbian camps. The remains of the victims are still unavailable, he stressed. Croatian parliament vice president Jadranka Kosor called on all in attendance to prevent the pain the Serbian aggressor had inflicted to the Croatian people from being forgotten. Today, when some international factors wish to equate the aggressor and the victim, our obligation is to remind of what happened in 1991, Kosor said. Had the international community stopped the Serbs at that time, neither Srebrenica (a Bosnian town where the Serbs massacred a large number of Muslims) nor many other crimes would have taken place, Kosor asserted. She reminded that 6,721 person had been exchanged from Serbian concentration camps, and that some 1,700 were still filed as missing. Today's commemorative session was preceded by wreath-laying at the New Cemetery in Vukovar, and a mass for all killed soldiers. (hina) ha