BLEIBURG, May 14 (Hina) - The commemoration of the 50 anniversary
of the Bleiburg tragedy commenced in Bleiburg, Austria, at noon by
singing the Croatian national anthem and observing a minute of
silence for all victims in the Croatian 'Golgotha' that happened
there fifty years ago.
The commemoration and the requiem mass were attended by those
who survived that massacre over Croats immediately after the
official end of WW II, the families of the Bleiburg victims and by
the Croatian Parliament's Committee for the 50th anniversary of the
Bleiburg tragedy, led by Parliament Speaker Nedjeljko Mihanovic.
Addressing the gathered people Mihanovic described the killing
of Croatian soldiers and civilians in Bleiburg as one of the
greatest tragedies of the Croatian nation.
Mihanovic said the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA)
and the Communist partisans had killed several hundred thousand
Croatian soldiers, elderly people, women and children in the mid
May 1945 on the Bleiburg field without previous trials at court.
During the former Yugoslavia Croatian fathers and mothers of
the killed and those who survived the massacre had to keep quiet
about the tragedy, he said adding that the sacrifice of the
Bleiburg victims contributed to efforts aimed at creating the
sovereign independent Croatian state.
Rev. Sebastian Golenic said the requiem mass for the victims,
and before that Mr. Petar Milos addressed the gathered people on
behalf of the 'Bleiburg' Croatian cultural society.
In May 1945, soon after the official end of the Second World
War British forces handed thousands of Croatian soldiers (who
belonged to the Independent State of Croatia, 'NDH') and civilians
to Tito's Communist partisans and the then Yugoslav People's Army
(the JNA) in the Bleiburg field. Many of the extradited soldiers
and civilians were killed by the JNA and partisans without any
trial.
The former Yugoslavia's officials and historians drew a veil
over the events in the Bleiburg field and the entire Croatian
'Golgotha' after the end of WW II. Some even tried to distort the
facts about the Bleiburg tragedy of the Croatian people, and
therefore it is now very difficult to find out the truth about
those events and to determine the exact number of the victims.
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