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HSP stages rallies in several cities in protest at Tadic's visit to Vukovar

Autor: mses
ZAGREB, Nov 4 (Hina) - Dozens of officials and members of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) gathered in Zagreb's main square on Thursday to light 19 candles forming the letter V in remembrance of the 19th anniversary of the fall of Vukovar into the hands of the Serb paramilitaries supported by the then Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). In this way HSP members also wanted to express their protest against today's visit by Serbian Boris Tadic to Vukovar.

Members of this parliamentary party staged similar rallies in several other Croatian cities and towns today.

The head of the HSP Zagreb branch, Stjepan Sterc, said that it was the European Union that stood behind Tadic's visit to Vukovar because of its attempts to promote the Serbian president as a regional leader.

The HSP also criticised Tadic for planning to visit Paulin Dvor on the same day as Vukovar, regarding it as an attempt to apportion the blame for war crimes.

Paulin Dvor is a community near Osijek where on 11 and 12 December 1991 Croatian troops killed 19 civilians, including 18 ethnic Serbs and one Hungarian.

Vukovar is the symbol of Croatia's resistance to the Serbian military aggression during the 1991-1995 Homeland War and the site of one of the worst atrocities committed in Europe after the Second World War.

Vukovar was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia's legal and constitutional system in early 1998.

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