Vukovar
It is the same building.
But the Croatian and Serbian children of the kindergarten in Vukovar do not enter through the same door.
They do not take their lessons in the same rooms, and their play areas are separate.
Thirty years after the takeover of the city by the Yugoslav Federal Army and Serbian paramilitary forces, the Days of Remembrance of the Victims, on November 18 and 19, were also commemorated differently.
There were funeral candles in the courtyard of the Croatian children.
Nothing in that of Serbian children.
After 87 days of a siege that began in August 1991, the border town with Serbia, defended by some 1,800 Croatian volunteers, was practically razed to the ground.
There have been more than 1,600 dead and 3,000 injured.
The worst happened with the fall of Vukovar.
Almost 5,000 people were taken to camps in Serbia, and nearly 20,000 others expelled.
More than 1000 wounded, civilians and soldiers, who were in the improvised hospital of Borovo
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