Zagreb on Monday remembered a missile attack on the city's centre carried out by Serb rebel forces 16 years ago, which left seven people killed and 205 wounded.
The attack, using rockets armed with cluster bomb warheads, began at 10.23 am on May 2, 1995 in retaliation for the Serb defeat in Operation Flash, the combined Croatian military and police offensive that was launched the previous day. The attack continued on May 3 when shells fell around a children's hospital, an old people's home and the National Theatre.
Serb rebel leader Milan Martic admitted on camera that it was a retaliatory attack for the Serb defeat in the Western Slavonia region. The Hague tribunal later sentenced him to 35 years' imprisonment for ordering the attack.
