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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF CROATS' GOLGOTHA MARKED IN BLEIBURG

BLEIBURG, May 14 (Hina) - The commemoration of the 50 anniversary of the Bleiburg tragedy commenced in Bleiburg, Austria, at noon by singing the Croatian national anthem and observing a minute of silence for all victims in the Croatian 'Golgotha' that happened there fifty years ago. The commemoration and the requiem mass were attended by those who survived that massacre over Croats immediately after the official end of WW II, the families of the Bleiburg victims and by the Croatian Parliament's Committee for the 50th anniversary of the Bleiburg tragedy, led by Parliament Speaker Nedjeljko Mihanovic. Addressing the gathered people Mihanovic described the killing of Croatian soldiers and civilians in Bleiburg as one of the greatest tragedies of the Croatian nation. Mihanovic said the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Communist partisans had killed several hundred thousand Croatian soldiers, elderly people, women and children in the mid May 1945 on the Bleiburg field without previous trials at court. During the former Yugoslavia Croatian fathers and mothers of the killed and those who survived the massacre had to keep quiet about the tragedy, he said adding that the sacrifice of the Bleiburg victims contributed to efforts aimed at creating the sovereign independent Croatian state. Rev. Sebastian Golenic said the requiem mass for the victims, and before that Mr. Petar Milos addressed the gathered people on behalf of the 'Bleiburg' Croatian cultural society. In May 1945, soon after the official end of the Second World War British forces handed thousands of Croatian soldiers (who belonged to the Independent State of Croatia, 'NDH') and civilians to Tito's Communist partisans and the then Yugoslav People's Army (the JNA) in the Bleiburg field. Many of the extradited soldiers and civilians were killed by the JNA and partisans without any trial. The former Yugoslavia's officials and historians drew a veil over the events in the Bleiburg field and the entire Croatian 'Golgotha' after the end of WW II. Some even tried to distort the facts about the Bleiburg tragedy of the Croatian people, and therefore it is now very difficult to find out the truth about those events and to determine the exact number of the victims. (hina) mms 141500 MET may 95

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