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Regional commemorations and victim identification

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Commemorations across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia continue to honor victims of historical conflicts. Recent observances in Croatia included the 35th anniversary of the formation of the A Battalion of the 111th Brigade in Kostrena and the 85th anniversary of the 1941 shooting of partisan fighters in Rudoš. During these events, Ranko Britvić, president of the Association of Anti-Fascist Fighters and Anti-Fascists of the City of Split, addressed the burial of 500 Croatian World War II victims exhumed from Slovenia, criticizing the use of the modern Croatian flag to cover the remains of defeated armies. In Škabrnja, Croatia, officials opened a new Memorial Center and memorial room dedicated to Homeland War victims to serve as an educational site. The ceremony, attended by Minister of Croatian Veterans Tomo Medved and Minister of Demography and Settlements Ivan Šipić, aimed to preserve the history of the area’s defense. This coincided with reports of demographic recovery in the municipality due to family subsidies, including birth subsidies and student assistance. subsidies. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mrkonjić Grad held commemorations for the 31st anniversary of the displacement of over 120,000 Serbs, while in Bratunac, the Institute for Missing Persons reported the discovery of skeletal remains at Kameničko brdo, believed to be victims of the Srebrenica genocide. Efforts to identify missing persons continue in Croatia, where the Ministry of Croatian Veterans discovered a primary mass grave near Komarevo Komarevo. Recent ceremonies in Croatia also honored the Banovina region. Remains from 35th anniversary of the site are being sent for DNA analysis as authorities continue deaths of military figures Blago Zadro and Colonel Alfred Hill in Vukovar, with military police completing a 331-kilometer memorial march to search for 1,725 individuals missing or honor Hill. Other local observances included honoring civilians killed during in Pakrac and Lipiku, and the Homeland War. 97th anniversary of the death of anti-fascist Vladimir Gortan in Istria. In Serbia, ceremonies in Ritopek and Grocka marked the 1944 liberation of those settlements from fascist occupation.

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  1. 2026-10-17 20:31 UTC Regional commemorations and victim identification
  2. 2026-10-17 05:38 UTC Regional commemorations and victim identification
  3. 2026-10-16 16:35 UTC Regional commemorations and victim identification
  4. 2026-10-10 10:05 UTC Croatian and Bosnian Homeland War commemorations
  5. 2026-10-02 06:42 UTC Croatian and Bosnian Homeland War commemorations
  6. 2026-09-30 15:23 UTC Croatian and Bosnian Homeland War commemorations
  7. 2026-09-28 08:55 UTC Croatian and Bosnian Homeland War commemorations
  8. 2026-09-22 07:48 UTC Croatian and Bosnian Homeland War commemorations
  9. 2026-09-19 20:26 UTC Croatian and Bosnian Homeland War commemorations
  10. 2026-09-07 09:54 UTC Croatian historical and veteran commemorations

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