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The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(3):231-232; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl028
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Guard against the oblivion: a role of public health in war

Dario Sambunjak1 and Luka Kovacic2

1 Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
2 Professor of Social Medicine and Organization of Health Care, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

Correspondence: e-mail: dario.sambunjak@mef.hr and lkovacic@snz.hr

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Not to remember means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the other hand, to remember means to feel compassion for the victims of all persecutions.

(Elie Wiesel, excerpt from the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial dedication, 4 February 1990)

In 1991, Croatia entered the list of world's crisis areas ravaged by armed conflicts. The scenes of war, once thought to be safely buried in the textbooks of European history, resurrected before the eyes of shocked nations. As if all the tragic lessons of previous wars were forgotten, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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