[Yugoslavia Memory of a disaster] 1991. Vukovar feels abandoned

Vukovar feels abandoned. It has been 83 days since the Croatian town located a few kilometers from the border with Serbia on the banks of the Danube has been under attack by the federal army. And since the
mid-August, its resistance is diminishing day by day. The isolation is felt to the point that the local commander of the Croatian armed forces last week accused the authorities in Zagreb
(Croatia) for abandoning them. Between the two hostile camps, civilians will be - as in all conflicts - the main victims of the final shock. Most of them have already
fled, who in Hungary in Croatia or Serbia. The few thousand civilians who still cling to their homes will have the choice between dying under the shells, being executed by an unleashed soldier
or explode on a mine. Unless, in the meantime, a ceasefire agreement comes to give a breath of fresh air to the besieged city.

(article published in "La Truffe" short-lived French daily, November 14, 1991, © NGV)