Municipal, county and state’s Representatives of the Associations from the last war, representatives of the Croatian National Parliament, cultural associations, as well as representatives of the Croatian component of the BiH Armed Forces and Croatian Ambassador to BiH Ivan Sabolić, were first to pay tribute to the killed Croats from Bugojno.

Leading the Holy Mass of Remembrance for the killed and missing Croatian defenders of Bugojno, OFM Nikica Vujica, Definitor and Economist of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, compared the missing Bugojno Croats to Bl. Alojzije Stepinac because, as he said, “all of them, like Cardinal Stepinac, went through a process of non-acceptance, hatred, persecution and ridicule.”

“Crime, criminal and hatred will never have the last word, but love and forgiveness will”, said OFM Nikica.

Let us remind that the so-called units of Army of BiH, during the war, expelled 15,000 Croats from Bugojno, 311 Croat civilians and soldiers were killed, and about 2,000 Croat detainees were tortured in the camp.

On Saturday, July 25^th, the parish priest of the parish of St. Anthony of Padua in Bugojno, OFM Hrvoje Radić prayed for the deceased at the location of Tvrdulje in Rostovo, where the remains of the bodies were found in two different graves. It is assumed that these are Croats who disappeared in 1993.