Croatia marking Remembrance Day of Vukovar and Skabrnja Victims

Croatia is on Friday marking the 31st anniversary of the massacre committed in the village of Skabrnja by the former Yugoslav People's Army, Serb paramilitary forces and volunteers from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina under the command of the then Yugoslav National Army (JNA) officer Ratko Mladic. The country also remembers the most difficult day in recent history of the eastern town of Vukovar, when on 18 November 1991, after 87 days of heroic resistance, the city's defence collapsed and Vukovar was occupied by the former JNA forces and Serb paramilitary groups. Pročitaj više