The association said in the letter released on Tuesday that this would be the third reduction of their pensions since 1991. Their pensions were first cut in 1991, then in 2002, and they are now to be cut for the third time by 10 percent.
According to the letter, there are currently in Croatia 39,611 beneficiaries of pensions granted on the basis of participation in the 1941-1945 struggle against fascism. Of them, 18,000 are war veterans and 21,611 are recipients of family pensions. An additional 10,964 former members of the Yugoslav People's Party (JNA) are entitled to privileged pensions in Croatia.
"Participants in the NOB struggle feel as if they were third-class citizens, although they had laid the foundations, through their struggle, of the democratic Republic of Croatia," SABA said in the letter.