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by Željko Heimer
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There are local elections in Croatia this Sunday, and this was
a chance to see on TV several local flags. One that deserves to
be considered it the flag of Vukovar - the city in east of
Croatia that bacame the symbol of Croatian stouggle against
aggression.
The flag is a horizontal triband of blue-white-blue, where the
shade of blue is very light, similar to what is usually
represented on Argentinian flags (celestial blue). In the middle,
as it is usual for Croatian local flags, there is the coat of
arms of Vukovar - red with white castle under the image of Mary
(?). Over all it is an escutcheon of irregular shape blue with
golden lion (?) holding and axe.
Of course, the flag is not used in Vukovar itself at the moment,
the city being under protection of the UN, but the results of
these elections should change this as one of the main
prerogatives of the reintegration of Eastern Slavonia and Baranya
in Croatia. The flag that could be seen in Vukovar these days is
the UN flag, and as it was reported in TV news, the Serb
tricolours are hoisted on several buildings of the local Serb
government.
Željko Heimer, 13 April 1997
I saw yesterday the TV-news on Arte (french-german network) with a short program about the Croatian elections and the situation of Eastern Slavonia. In a Croatia