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Vukovar massacre at 30: How 'Croatia's Stalingrad' still casts a long shadow
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euronews.comIn his seminal book on the wars on Yugoslavia, British journalist Misha Glenny describes reaching the outskirts of the Croatian city of Vukovar on the Danube in 1991, on day two of what would be a bloody 87-day siege by Serb militia and the Yugoslav National Army (JNA).
He and another journalist were told they could enter the town, but decided it was too dangerous.
“Later on we admitted to each other how often and how deeply we regretted that decision," Glenny recalled. "We had travelled to the edge of a crime without parallel in post-war Europe. It was our duty to report the precise details about Vukovar, but we were too scared."
Vukovar’s total destruction during what would be the first phase of the wars in Yugoslavia invited comparisons to
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