Original scientific paper

Adalbert Rebić ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The subject of this article is the return of displaced persons to their homes which they were expelled from by the Serbs and the role of the Church in re-establishing of displaced persons and their houses.
At the beginning, the situation of displaced persons is being described, and afterwards there is a brief description of the role of UNPROFOR. Some of the main purposes of UNPROFOR are expelling of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) and all of the soldiers, who arrived to Croatia from Serbia and Bosnia, disarmament of Serbian terrorists and re-establishing of the Croatian sovereignty and public order on the occupied territories of Croatia, as well as facilitation of the return of displaced persons regardless their nationality and religion.
Conditions of the return (rebuilding and rehabilitation of houses, schools, and churches, re-establishing of the local political and social structures of the communities on the occupied territories) are also described in the article.
In all this, role of the Church, of the parish priest is being stressed (reconciliation among Croats and Serbs and peaceful coexistence).

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Hrčak ID:

35660

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/35660

Publication date:

18.4.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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