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VUKOVAR, May 9 (Hina) - Forty-nine victims of Serb aggression on
Croatia who were buried in a mass grave in Vukovar were given a
funeral on Saturday in this eastern Croatian city.
Bodies of 27 soldiers, two civil defence members and 15 civilians
were buried at the "New Vukovar Cemetery" and five Croatian
soldiers will be buried in other counties, in line with the wishes
of families.
So far 212 victims have been exhumed since April 28. One hundred and
ten have been identified.
The funeral ceremony was served by the Djakovo and Srijem Bishop,
Ciril Kos.
Officials of the city of Vukovar, Vukovar-Srijem County, Defence
Ministry, Interior Ministry, Croatian Homeland War Soldiers'
Ministry and Croatian government officials expressed their
condolences.
Vukovar Deputy Mayor Stipe Seremet said it was "the obligation of
all of us to build new life on the foundation of faith the victims
who had died for their homeland had".
Former Croatian Army Chief-of-Staff General Anton Tus said "the
crime committed in Vukovar must be punished, but it will never be
because justice will never catch up with it. The reconstruction of
Vukovar and the Croatian Danube River region and the return (of
displaced persons and refugees) to these areas is the best reply to
these crimes and a thanks for all those who had given their lives for
Croatia".
The enormous contribution of Vukovar and eastern Slavonia to the
Homeland War is measurable by the fact that over fifty per cent of
killed persons in Croatia were from this area, Tus said.
Croatian Homeland War Soldiers' Minister Juraj Njavro, on behalf of
the Ministry and Croatian government, said that the whole of
Croatia was in mourning with Vukovar today.
"It was also in mourning in 1991. Although it could not help us,
Croatia suffered together with us. The place on which we stand today
and on which we will be in the next several weeks is crying out for
justice, but not the kind which is based on revenge and hatred,"
Njavro said.
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