ZAGREB, Aug 8 (Hina) - Today's Zagreb-based newspaper VJESNIK
brings a long interview with Mr. Jure Kolak, the mayor of the
Croatian city of Vukovar (far east of Croatia) that was occupied by
Serb aggressors in the end of 1991. Mr. Kolak stresses that 1850
defenders were killed, 2630 persons registered as missing, 430
children remained orphans and fatherless or motherless, 2500
persons wounded, 570 of them invalids, during the defence of the
city.
Speaking about people expelled from Vukovar Mr. Kolar
emphasizes that their health is deteriorating in bad conditions in
which displaced persons now live.
"There are more and more displaced persons suffering from
cancer, mental illnesses, tuberculosis," he says concluding that
"The situation in which refugees live requires urgent measures for
resolving their problems."
In today's issue VJESNIK publishes an article of Tomo Podrug a
writer from Zagreb, in which he comments on Russian-Serb relations.
The recent visit of Russian Defence Minister Pavel Grachev to
Serb irregulars in the occupied areas of Croatia "could surprise
only those who are not better informed of the Russian-Serb ties...
The ties are not only established on the Slavic origins but they
have been the consequence of their similar historical inclinations:
political, hegemonic and territorial pretensions," notes Podrug.
The other Zagreb-based daily VECERNJI LIST publishes a
statement of the Zagreb Cardinal, Msgr. Franjo Kuharic, on the
forthcoming visit of the Pope to Croatia. "The visit of the Holy
Father is an event to be written in Croatia's history. This is to
be his meeting with our present time as well as with our past,"
Cardinal Kuharic says.
VECERNJI LIST writes about the position of the Hungarian
minority in Croatia and quotes the chairman of the Association of
Hungarians in Croatia as saying that Hungarians joint Croatian
defenders in the liberation war but now they can not enjoy the same
minorities' rights as Serbs and Italians are able.
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