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Zagreb, November 18 MPS REMEMBER VUKOVAR & SKABRNJA VICTIMS WITH MINUTE OF SILENCEZAGREB, Nov 18 (Hina) - Croatian MPs on Wednesday paid homage to all victims from Vukovar and Skabrnja with a minute of silence. On November 18, 1991,
the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), assisted by paramilitary Serbian units, entered the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar after a three-month siege, during which time the town had been literally razed to the ground. After entering the town, the occupying forces killed 270 prisoners, civilians, and wounded people, while deporting non-Serbian residents. On the same day, 300km to the south-west, on the coast, the JNA and Serbian paramilitary units massacred the residents of Skabrnja, a village near Zadar, having previously destroyed the village with tank fire. "Vukovar paid a huge price in the Homeland War, a price built in the creation of independent Croatia," parliament president Vlatko Pavl