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80,000 attend Vukovar Remembrance Day commemorations

Vukovar Remembrance Day - in memory of 18 November 1991 when the city's defence lines were broken after a three-month siege by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitaries.

In attendance at the central commemorative event including the five-kilometre-long Remembrance March from the General Hospital to the Memorial Cemetery were top state officials, including President Ivo Josipovic and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic.

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