The Croatian government on Thursday instructed the Public Administration Ministry and the national statistical office DZS to verify the authenticity of signatures which a civil society association collected to support its request for a referendum on the use of minority languages and scripts.
The decision on the verification of the signatures follows the December 2013 conclusion of the parliament that it had received a sufficient number of signatures for the referendum.
The government today endorsed a report on the enforcement of the law on locating and maintaining military graveyards and graves of victims killed in World War Two and its aftermath.
War Veterans Minister Predrag Matic said that "this is a small law but very important for the mental health of the nation, as it tackles some problems which have been dragged for 70 years."
Matic said that the the report on the implementation of the said law in 2013 showed that it was being implemented despite fierce criticism from some institutions.
Findings of investigations and collected data indicate there were 82 sites of possible graveyards of WW II victims and victims killed in the wake of the war, and those sites were scattered across 16 counties and the City of Zagreb.
As many as 16 sites have been investigated, and remains of 315 bodies have been unearthed, with 271 of those victims having been reburied in a dignified manner, according to Matic.
(Hina)
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