BRUNO BUSIC'S REMAINS WILL BE BURIED IN CROATIA - FOUNDATION

ZAGREB, Oct 5 (Hina) - The remains of Bruno Ante Busic, a fighter for freedom and a visionary of an independent Croatia, who was killed by the former Yugoslav secret service (UDBA) in Paris on October 16, 1978, will be transferred to Croatia and buried at Zagreb's cemetery Mirogoj on October 16, the Foundation "Ante Bruno Busic" reported on Tuesday. Busic's remains rested 21 years at the Paris cemetery Pere Lachaise. Following their exhumation, to take place on October 10, and a ceremony at the Croatian Catholic Centre in Paris, which will be attended by a Croatian delegation, Busic's remains will be transported to Croatia. The Foundation for tomorrow organises a ceremony at Zagreb's Pleso airport where Busic's remains will arrive. Busic was born in Vinjani Donji near Imotski, southern Croatia, on October 6, 1939. He graduated from Zagreb's Faculty of Economy in 1964 and started working as a researcher at the then Croatian Institute for History. He was one of the editors of "Hrvatski knjizevni list". He came under police persecution after he participated in a democratic movement in the then socialist Croatia, known as "Hrvatsko proljece", (Croatian spring) in 1971. After serving a prison sentence of several years, he emigrated abroad. With his ideas and his vision of struggle for the Croatian state Busic gathered almost all generations of Croatian political emigrants. The transfer of Busic's remains to Croatia was organised by the Foundation, Croatian Commission for Establishing War and Post-War Victims, and the Association of Former Political Prisoners. (hina) rml