VUKOVAR VUKOVAR, Jan 1 (Hina) - Exactly at the midnight, members of an association of disabled war veterans and families of the killed war veterans (UBIUDR) from the northern Croatian town of Koprivnica, lit candles and laid wreaths
in front of the Stone Cross at the mouth of the Vuka in the Danube in the eastern war-devastated town of Vukovar. The association began with this tradition of marking the New Year three years ago. UBIUDR members say the purpose of their New Year action in the martyr town of Vukovar is to remind the Croatian and world public of crimes committed during the greater Serbian aggression against their country in the early 1990s. Prior to the midnight wreath-laying ceremony, the Franciscan monastery guardian, Friar Zlatko Spehar, conducted a Mass paying tribute to the victims of the war. After the midnight, some 500 participants in this commemoration, walked toward the downtown Vuk
VUKOVAR, Jan 1 (Hina) - Exactly at the midnight, members of an
association of disabled war veterans and families of the killed war
veterans (UBIUDR) from the northern Croatian town of Koprivnica,
lit candles and laid wreaths in front of the Stone Cross at the mouth
of the Vuka in the Danube in the eastern war-devastated town of
Vukovar.
The association began with this tradition of marking the New Year
three years ago. UBIUDR members say the purpose of their New Year
action in the martyr town of Vukovar is to remind the Croatian and
world public of crimes committed during the greater Serbian
aggression against their country in the early 1990s.
Prior to the midnight wreath-laying ceremony, the Franciscan
monastery guardian, Friar Zlatko Spehar, conducted a Mass paying
tribute to the victims of the war.
After the midnight, some 500 participants in this commemoration,
walked toward the downtown Vukovar to join participant in the first
New Year party held in the open air, i.e. at the central square, in
this town.
(hina) ms