Addressing a gathering in Vukovar today, the HDLSKL president Danijel Rehak said that some 30,000 Croatians had passed through about 70 concentration camps set up in Croatian areas formerly held by Serb rebels and in Serbia.
"Some 300 prisoners were killed in the camps, and about 2,400 are still registered as missing after their detention," Rehak said.
A brief documentary about the Nemetin POW exchnage was screened at the commemoration in Vukovar.
Under a Croatian parliament decision, August 14 is marked as the day of the prisoners of enemy concentration camps during the Homeland War.
According to the Croatian Commission for Missing Persons and Detainees, 7,666 people were exchanged from camps, set up in Serbia between December 1991 to August 1992, including 219 juveniles, 932 women and 424 people above the age of 60; 46% were civilians and 52% soldiers, while the status of the rest was unidentified.
In all the prisons in Serbia, prisoners were subjected to mental and physical torture, without exception, according to the commission's findings.