The Memorial Centre of the Zagreb Rocket Attacks 1991 – 1995

The Memorial Centre of the Zagreb Rocket Attacks 1991 – 1995 has recently been opened in the city centre, on Petrićeva Street, in memory of the civilians who were killed and injured in the rocket attack which occurred on May 2nd 1995.

The Memorial Centre of the Zagreb Rocket Attacks 1991 – 1995 has been recently opened in the city centre, on Petrićeva Street, in memory of the civilians who were killed and injured in the aggression on Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence. The centre was opened on the anniversary of the rocket attack on Zagreb, which was launched on May 2nd 1995 by Serb aggressors as an act of retaliation against Croatia in the aftermath of the successfully conducted military operation “Flash”. The memorial centre was symbolically opened by the wife of Stjepan Krhen, one of the five civilians who were killed in the rocket attack on downtown Zagreb. Another 205 people were wounded in the attack.

The centre’s permanent exhibition showcases documentary films, photographs and pieces of the rockets that landed on the Children’s Hospital on Klaićeva Street, the Croatian National Theatre and other civilian institutions in Zagreb. The exhibition also features artefacts such as ballet shoes retrieved from the Croatian National Theatre after the attack, where the theatre’s director and prima ballerina, Almira Osmanović, was one of the 18 injured members of an ongoing international art project. Visitors of the centre will also have the opportunity to view photographs and documents that stand witness to this barbaric attack on civilians, as well as to the attempt at killing the Croatian political leadership in a rocket attack which targeted Banski Dvori in the Upper Town in 1991.