In Djakovo, delegations of the local Croatian Political Prisoners Association and the Jazovka victimology association laid a wreath and lit candles at a monument to about 100 people killed after Partisans entered Djakovo in April 1945.
Delegations of the City of Djakovo and political parties also laid wreaths and lit candles at the monument.
Jazovka official Per Sola said there were about 3,000 Communism victims and about 1,700 Fascism victims in the Djakovo area, adding that the two associations had paid their respects to the latter at the city cemetery as well.
In Dubrovnik, on Daksa isle, wreaths for 53 Dubrovnik residents killed by the Partisans there in October 1944 were laid by family members and friends, county officials and local officials of the HDZ opposition party.
Delegations of Dubrovnik County and Konavle Municipality laid wreaths at a monument to 13 Home Guard members killed at Orsula by the Partisans when they entered Dubrovnik in October 1944.
In Mrtvi Jarak, the president of the Hvidra Homeland War veterans association, HDZ MP Josip Djakic, said the government was doing nothing about the victims of the communist regime because it did not care about their dignity.
The commemoration was held at a monument in a forest where four mass graves were found, believed to contain the remains of 700 Croatian soldiers, women and children killed after WW2. No grave has been researched and the remains have not been exhumed.
A commemoration was also held in Osijek.