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Zagreb - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković, who on Saturday took part in the Remembrance Walk in Vukovar, called for solemn commemoration of war victims in Vukovar and Škabrnja and defenders who gave heir lives in the 1991-1995 Homeland War.
The 5.5-kilometre-long procession to the Homeland War Victims Memorial Cemetery began outside the Dr Juraj Njavro National Memorial Hospital, and President Zoran Milanović, Sabor Speaker Jandroković and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković were among participants.
Thousands of people came to the eastern city of Vukovar and to Škabrnja in the Dalmatian hinterland on Saturday for commemorative events on the occasion of Homeland War Victims Remembrance Day and Vukovar and Škabrnja Victims Remembrance Day.
Thousands of patriots from across Croatia as well as from Croatian communities abroad walked in the Vukovar Remembrance Procession to commemorate 18 November 1991, when the city's defence was broken after a three-month siege by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitary units.
Vukovar was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia's constitutional and legal system in January 1998.
In Škabrnja, a few thousand people arrived to take part in commemorations marking the fall of this southern town in the hands of JNA troops and Serb paramilitaries led by JNA officer Ratko Mladić 32 years ago. Škabrnja was liberated during Operation Storm in early August 1995.