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All Saints' Day observed in Croatia

Author: Hari Alfeo

ZAGREB, Nov 1 (Hina) - All Saints' Day was observed throughout Croatia on Wednesday, with people visiting cemeteries, lighting candles and putting flowers on the graves of their dearest ones as well on the graves of prominent Croatians and in front of crosses and monuments erected in tribute to war victims.

A delegation of the Croatian People's Party, a junior partner in the ruling coalition, laid flowers and lit candles at Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery at the monuments to Homeland War victims.

A delegation of the City of Zagreb led by Mayor Milan Bandic also laid wreaths and lit candles at Mirogoj.

In the eastern town of Vukovar, numerous residents visited the Homeland War Memorial Cemetery, where defenders, disabled war veterans and members of their families, killed in the military aggression on the town in 1991, are buried. Many citizens lit candles there at the 938 crosses symbolising the number of victims exhumed from the New Vukovar Cemetery, which is near by the Memorial Cemetery.

Locals also visited the nearby Ovcara mass grave site. Exhumed there in 1996 were the remains of 200 people take from Vukovar's hospital on 19 November 1991 and killed at Ovcara farm.

All Saints' Day is a public holiday in Croatia.

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