The statement, signed by the chairman of the association's Dubrovnik County branch, Ante Batinovic, said the association had lost its president, Milivoj Bujas, who committed suicide yesterday, but was confident it would not lose the battle they began with the former and were continuing with the incumbent Government.
The statement said the 20,000 kuna envisaged in the 2005 national budget was hardly sufficient for the association's work, and added that some other war veterans associations received as much as 1.5 million kuna.
(EUR1 = 7.5 kuna)