{"id":117701,"date":"2019-11-20T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morh.hr\/?p=117701"},"modified":"2020-12-10T10:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T09:54:38","slug":"commemoration-for-victims-of-massacre-in-skabrnja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morh.hr\/en\/commemoration-for-victims-of-massacre-in-skabrnja\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration for victims of massacre in \u0160kabrnja"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 18 November 2019 many locals, veterans, members of the Croatian Armed Forces and friends from all over Croatia came to pay their respects to the victims of \u0160kabrnja.<\/p>\n

The 28th anniversary of the massacre of \u0160kabrnja was marked by a commemorative ceremony, the traditional memorial march and a three-day march by the members of the 3rd Mechanised Battalion “Pauci” of the Guards Mechanised Brigade from Knin to \u0160kabrnja.<\/p>\n

The marking ceremony was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Damir Krsti\u010devi\u0107 as Envoy of the President of the Republic of Croatia and of the Prime Minister, by Major General (Ret.) Miljenko Filipovi\u0107 as Envoy of the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament , a delegation of the Croatian Government headed by Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Oleg Butkovi\u0107, by the Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces General Mirko \u0160undov, delegations of the Ministry of Homeland War Veterans and of the Ministry of the Interior, by the representatives of the Croatian Generals Association, many government and military officials and representatives of the associations from the Homeland War.<\/p>\n

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\u017drtvama \u0160kabrnje i ove godine 18. studenog do\u0161li su se pokloniti brojni mje\u0161tani, branitelji, pripadnici Hrvatske vojske i prijatelji iz cijele Hrvatske | Foto: MORH \/ T. Brandt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minister Krsti\u010devi\u0107: The victims of Vukovar and \u0160kabrnja must never be forgotten<\/h3>\n

The Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Damir Krsti\u010devi\u0107 (who joined the members of the Battalion “Pauci” in the last stretch of the march) emphasised that the victims of Vukovar and \u0160kabrnja had to be kept in lasting memory. <\/p>\n

“The Croatian soldiers walked the march from Knin to \u0160kabrnja to pay respects to the fallen in the Homeland War. Our thoughts are with our friends. I am glad to see the young soldiers honour the values of the Homeland War. Each Croatian soldier guards the victims of Vukovar and \u0160kabrnja in his heart. Croatia is protected by strong and respectable armed forces born in the Homeland War, to prevent the crimes from happening again”.<\/p>\n

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\u017drtvama \u0160kabrnje i ove godine 18. studenog do\u0161li su se pokloniti brojni mje\u0161tani, branitelji, pripadnici Hrvatske vojske i prijatelji iz cijele Hrvatske | Foto: MORH \/ T. Brandt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mons. Pulji\u0107: The church bells are calling us to pray for the fallen in the Homeland War, to whom we owe freedom<\/h3>\n

The memorial march was walked with dignity and deep respect along the 18 November 1991 Street in \u0160kabrnja to the Memorial Monument at the mass grave , where the delegation of the Union of Association of Croatian Civilian Victims of the Homeland War laid wreaths and a mass was recited in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the victims of the Homeland War, recited by Mons \u017delimir Pulji\u0107, Archbishop of Zadar.
\nMons. Pulji\u0107 in his homily recalled the centuries of suffering of Croatian people and the suppression of its cultural, historical and religious identity.<\/p>\n

“However, the Croatian people has never accepted it – today we enjoy freedom and independence thanks to the courage of Croatian defenders. The day of 18 November is associated with the occupation of the heroic Vukovar and \u0160kabrnja – the two places of profound suffering, but we had our sacred values that relied on for strength and comfort. Vukovar and \u0160kabrnja succumbed to, but Croatia did not thanks to the courage of its defenders. The church bells are calling us today to pray for the fallen for the victims of the Homeland War to whom we owe freedom fenders. Today, church bells are calling us to pray for all our victims in the Homeland War because we owe them our freedom. It is our obligation to remember them and never forget our heroes and their places of rest”, said Mons Pulji\u0107.<\/p>\n