ERNESTINOVO RESIDENTS ERNESTINOVO, Nov 20 (Hina) - Osijek-Baranja county officials and representatives of associations gathering the families of missing and detained Croatian soldiers on Saturday held a meeting commemorating the
eighth anniversary of the fall of the eastern Croatian village of Ernestinovo into the hands of the JNA and Serb paramilitaries. The commemoration was held at the local park, near the site of a mass grave from which the bodies of five Ernestinovo residents were exhumed. Twenty-nine soldiers and civilians were killed in the defence of Ernestinovo by November 20, 1991 and another three are still held missing, said Zvonko Bugarin, deputy to the municipal head. Wreaths were laid and candles were lit at the graves and at the central cross at the local cemetery. The church of the Holy Trinity in the village was almost completely erased during the Serbian aggression. In 1991, Ernestinovo had 1,500 residents an
ERNESTINOVO, Nov 20 (Hina) - Osijek-Baranja county officials and
representatives of associations gathering the families of missing
and detained Croatian soldiers on Saturday held a meeting
commemorating the eighth anniversary of the fall of the eastern
Croatian village of Ernestinovo into the hands of the JNA and Serb
paramilitaries.
The commemoration was held at the local park, near the site of a mass
grave from which the bodies of five Ernestinovo residents were
exhumed.
Twenty-nine soldiers and civilians were killed in the defence of
Ernestinovo by November 20, 1991 and another three are still held
missing, said Zvonko Bugarin, deputy to the municipal head.
Wreaths were laid and candles were lit at the graves and at the
central cross at the local cemetery.
The church of the Holy Trinity in the village was almost completely
erased during the Serbian aggression. In 1991, Ernestinovo had
1,500 residents and today it has a population of 1,200.
Reconstruction works in the village are being completed.
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