(18 Nov 1995) Serbo-Croat/Nat
The people of the war-shattered town of Vukovar are remembering the horrors of four years ago.
A church service has been conducted in Vukovar to mark the 4th anniversary of the formerly Croatian town's fall to the Serbs.
The long battle for Vukovar was symbolic of the fury of the wars which have engulfed former Yugoslavia.
Vukovar, in eastern Slavonia near the Croat-Serbia border, fell on November 18th 1991 after a three-month pounding by Yugoslav army artillery that left it ruins.
The town was the scene of the first big reported massacre of civilians, by Serbs who reportedly executed hundreds of Croatian hospital patients after taking the town.
But today was a day to put past enmities aside and to remember those who died.
The remaining residents of Vukovar say they have had enough of war.
SOUNDBITE: Serbo-Croat
\"I hope the agreement that was signed in Erdut will help ensure there is no more war and that we will have a lasting peace\"
SUPER CAPTION: Slavko Dokmanovic, Mayor of Vukovar
However, the future of Vukovar as part of Croatia or Serbia is still under discussion.
The fate of east Slavonia - claimed by the Croats but ruled by the Serbs- is one of the main issues in the peace conference now underway in faraway Dayton, Ohio.
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