VUKOVAR Civitatem hero VUKOVAR City in eastern Croatia

VUKOVAR Civitatem hero

VUKOVAR • City in eastern Croatia • Name - ‘Town on the Vuka River' Vukovar

VUKOVAR BEFORE THE WAR • Baroque city • Prosperous • Mixed community of Croats, Serbs and others Ethnic groups

REASON FOR THE WAR IN CROATIA • June 25, 1991 - independence from the SFRY (Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia) • Serbia was considered a hostile act against the Serbian minority

CROATIAN HEROES • Heavily damaged • 2000 self-organised defenders VS

THE MASSACRE IN BOROVO SELO (BOROVO VILLAGE) • 2 May 1991 - The massacre in Borovo Selo Desecrate the monument to victims of massacre - 2012. Monument to victims of massacre

THE BATTLE OF VUKOVAR • 87 day siege of Vukovar - between August and November 1991.

18 NOVEMBER 1991 • Vukovar fell on 18 November 1991 • Ethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population

IN VUKOVAR THEY ENTERED, SINGING THIS SONG • “Slobodane, Slobodane send us some salad, It's gonna be lot of meat, we will slaughter Croats!”

VUKOVAR RESIDENTS • Forced from their homes

„LITTLE GIRL IN A BLUE JACKET„ - ŽELJKA JURIĆ • Executed her protector

VUKOVAR HOSPITAL • About 400 people trapped in the city's hospital • The buses took the prisoners to the Ovčara • The age of the prisoners ranged from 16 to 72

OVČARA • A mass grave • Serbian concentration camp • In September and October 1996 began the exhumation of mass graves

THE OVČARA MEMORIAL CENTRE

JOURNALIST OF CROATIAN RADIO VUKOVAR SINIŠA GLAVAŠEVIĆ • Abducted in the hospital and killed at Ovčara • Written during the siege and the destruction of Vukovar - STORY OF A TOWN

MEMORIAL CEMETERY • 938 white crosses

BLAGO ZADRO • was a commander of the northern part of Croatian defense forces in Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence

TRPINJSKA CESTA (ROAD) "GRAVEYARD OF TANKS" • Croatian defenders under the leadership of the legendary hero Blago Zadro, the Trpinjska road destroyed the 30 -beginning of tanks

VUKOVAR 1991. • By the end of the battle, over 700, 000 shells and other missiles had been fired at Vukovar at a rate of up to 12000 a day

WATER TOWER • The most famous symbol of war • Become a Memorial area to remind us of the suffering and pain that is experienced Vukovar

REMEMBRANCE DAY • October 29, 1999. Croatian Parliament passed a Decision to proclaim the day Remembrance for the victims of Vukovar in 1991

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE IN MY SCHOOL • Primary school Sesvetska Sopnica also marks the day of remembrance for the victims of Vukovar

FORGIVE BUT NOT FORGET

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