Press release on the occasion of the anniversary of the attack on Dubrovnik and Dubrovnik area
In the beginning of October 1991, months-long occupation of Dubrovnik started, during which Dubrovnik's residents lived in a land and sea blockade, in shelters and without electricity and water. Yugoslav National Army forces attacked the Dubrovnik area from Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as from the Adriatic Sea. On December 6, 1991, Dubrovnik suffered the severest attack.
During the war in the Dubrovnik area, 116 civilians were killed and several hundreds were wounded; 430 Croatian defenders died, 443 persons were imprisoned in camps Morinj (Montenegro) and Bileća (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 33 000 persons were expelled from their homes and 2,071 residential objects were destroyed.
We believe that 22 years after the beginning of the war not enough effort has been put neither into establishing responsibility and justice nor into building a culture of remembrance based in historical facts.
Priopćenje za medije povodom obljetnice stradanja Dubrovnika i dubrovačkog područja
