ZAGREB, Nov 1 (Hina) - All Saints' Day was marked on Sunday across +Croatia by the laying of wreaths and the lighting of candles in +honour of the dead. Representatives of local and state authorities +laid wreaths on graves of all
those who fell for Croatia's freedom +and independence as well.+ Representatives of the Croatian Defence Ministry, Interior +Ministry, Ministry of Croatian Defenders, and representatives of +political parties and associations laid wreaths for defenders who +fell during the Serbian aggression on Croatia in front of the +Central Cross on Zagreb's cemetery of Mirogoj.+ A delegation of the Croatian parliament's commission for +determining war and post-war victims, headed by the commission +president Vice Vukojevic, also laid wreaths. + Defence Minister Pavao Miljevac laid a wreath at former Defence +Minister Gojko Susak's grave, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence +and main headqu
ZAGREB, Nov 1 (Hina) - All Saints' Day was marked on Sunday across
Croatia by the laying of wreaths and the lighting of candles in
honour of the dead. Representatives of local and state authorities
laid wreaths on graves of all those who fell for Croatia's freedom
and independence as well.
Representatives of the Croatian Defence Ministry, Interior
Ministry, Ministry of Croatian Defenders, and representatives of
political parties and associations laid wreaths for defenders who
fell during the Serbian aggression on Croatia in front of the
Central Cross on Zagreb's cemetery of Mirogoj.
A delegation of the Croatian parliament's commission for
determining war and post-war victims, headed by the commission
president Vice Vukojevic, also laid wreaths.
Defence Minister Pavao Miljevac laid a wreath at former Defence
Minister Gojko Susak's grave, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence
and main headquarters of the Croatian armed forces.
The wreaths at Susak's grave were also laid by representatives of
the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
A delegation of the Anti-Fascist Fighters Alliance also laid
wreaths at the National Heroes of World War Two vault.
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, along with his family, laid
wreaths on the family vault.
A delegation from the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar, headed by
Mayor Vladimir Stengl, laid wreaths at the Vukovar cemetery and in
front of a stone cross by the Vuka river's mouth into the Danube, in
honour of all Vukovar citizens buried on cemeteries across
Croatia.
Vukovar's cemeteries were also visited by large numbers of Vukovar
citizens living across Croatia and still waiting for their return
to Vukovar.
They laid wreaths by a cross in front of the mass grave in Ovcara,
near Vukovar, where 200 wounded soldiers and civilians were killed
by the former Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitary units in
November 1991.
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