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1 Vukovar Civitatem hero

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

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

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

5 CROATIAN HEROES Heavily damaged 2000 self-organised defenders VS

6 THE MASSACRE IN BOROVO SELO (BOROVO VILLAGE)
2 May The massacre in Borovo Selo Desecrate the monument to victims of massacre Monument to victims of massacre

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

8 18 NOVEMBER 1991 Vukovar fell on 18 November 1991
Ethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population

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

10 Vukovar residents Forced from their homes

11 „Little girl in a blue jacket„ - Željka Jurić
Executed her protector

12 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

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

14 The Ovčara Memorial Centre

15 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

16 Memorial cemetery 938 white crosses

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

18 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

19 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 a day

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

21 Remembrance Day October 29, Croatian Parliament passed a Decision to proclaim the day Remembrance for the victims of Vukovar in 1991

22 Day of Remembrance in my school
Primary school Sesvetska Sopnica also marks the day of remembrance for the victims of Vukovar

23 Forgive but not forget

24 Literatura i izvori: Wikipedia.org
Filip Coha 8.c

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