BELGRADE -- The state ceremony of the Day of Remembrance of all Serbs who died and were exiled in "Storm" will be held tonight at 8:00 PM on Freedom Square in Novi Sad.
The Storm Anniversary: Commemoration in Serbia, national holiday in Croatia
BELGRADE -- The state ceremony of the Day of Remembrance of all Serbs who died and were exiled in "Storm" will be held tonight at 8:00 PM on Freedom Square in Novi Sad.
Source: Tanjug
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The anniversary of the military-police operation Storm, during which the largest exodus of Serbs since World War II was recorded at the beginning of August 1995, will also be marked as a national holiday in Croatia this year - the Day of Victory and Homeland Gratitude and Veterans' Day, while in Serbia that crime that goes unpunished will be marked with a commemorative rally in Novi Sad.
As President Aleksandar Vučić announced, the anniversary of this Croatian military-police operation will be marked in Novi Sad, on Freedom Square, today at 8 p.m. Croatia traditionally organizes the central marking in Knin, where President Zoran Milanović will host a reception for war commanders today. On that occasion, Milanović will present decorations, medals and promote some members of the Croatian Armed Forces, his office announced.
The precise protocol for the anniversary of the operation "Storm" in Knin has not yet been published, and for the first time this year, several civil sector associations held a half-hour anti-war action on Wednesday on Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb in memory of the killed and expelled Serbs during and after this military - police operation.
According to the data of the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of Serbia, more than 1.700 Serbs were killed and disappeared in the military-police operation "Storm", and more than 250.000 were expelled.
While for the Croats the "Storm" is a reason for celebration, for the Serbs it is the most massive and one of the cruelest ethnic cleansings that happened in the wars in the former SFRY.
Operation "Storm" began on August 4, 1995 with the offensive of the Croatian army and police and units of the Croatian Defense Council in the territory of the then Republic of Serbian Krajina, i.e. Banija, Kordun, Lika and northern Dalmatia, despite the fact that the area was under protection of the United Nations.
While columns of refugees in cars, trucks, tractors and other agricultural vehicles entered Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croatian army entered the abandoned Knin, where it raised the Croatian flag on August 5.
About 130.000 members of the armed forces from the Croatian side took part in the action. At the Hague Tribunal, Croatian General Ante Gotovina was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the crime against Serbs in "Storm", but he was acquitted in November 2012.
Along with Gotovina, Croatian generals Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak were tried at the Hague Tribunal for persecutions, deportations, murders, crimes against humanity, looting of property, violations of the laws and customs of war. Cermak was acquitted in the first instance, while Markac was sentenced to 18 years in prison. However, the Appeals Chamber overturned that verdict and acquitted him of the charges.
Due to the war crimes committed in the "Bljesak" and "Storm" operations, the war crimes tribunal in The Hague was preparing an indictment against Franjo Tudjman, who died in 1999. In April 2001, The Hague investigators questioned the former Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Army, Petar Stipetić, but after an investigation, he was cleared of suspicion for crimes committed during the actions "Medački dzep", "Bljesak" and "Storm".
In the 25 years since the "Storm", the Croatian judiciary has brought three indictments for war crimes against the Krajina Serbs, against a total of seven members of the Croatian military and police units. The trials resulted in two guilty verdicts, one of which is final. In Croatia, this anniversary of the "Storm" will be marked in the shadow of the first indictment brought by Serbia against the Croatian pilots who bombed the column of Serbs on the Petrovac road.
The indictment accuses the Croatian pilots of crimes against Serbian civilians in the column near Bosanski Petrovac and in Svodna, near Novi Grad.
(Concerned Albanian, 6 August 2022 06:35)
Kiss Russia butt and beg forgiveness that’s how.
The Russians are going to force Germany to open Nord Stream 2 because if not then German industry has no energy and economic collapse next step. Germany falters the EU has no money. If you believe all; this BS of getting gas somewhere else don’t because its all BS.
All those countries that rely on EU funding to survive will go down the drain if Germany falters.
My guess is that Olaf sholz and his band of greens will not be in power by December this year.
(sj, 7 August 2022 06:13)
(Lenard, 5 August 2022 01:18)
No Lenny I no spew delusion but fact. Where have I been wrong? You tell me. The big battle is Ukraine is very important so if west no win the west is f*****. Germany is the economic engine of EU and if Germany collapses, and they will and that’s guaranteed, then Croatia will become beggar state in EU – no money. Croatia exists because of EU money; fact!!!!
I give big prediction. If Nord Stream 2 is opened that means Germany becomes subordinate to Russia and Croatia f***** any way you look. Croatia’s future does not exist except to be torn apart.
Do tell us how “mighty” Croatia stop this from happening? Will Germany sacrifice itself for dumb arse Croats or will it push Croatia under a bus?????
(sj, 5 August 2022 13:24)
Lads I have no idea what DDJ knows but I know plenty. Once Germany is fucked Croatia is dead LOL. You can fantasise what ever you like but Croatia lives off EU money and if Germany goes into a depression Cro9atias gets SWFA money.
(sj, 5 August 2022 11:00)
sj sj whene have you been rite about anything.
Spewing the same greater delusional "Serbia" bs as it shrinks.
Croatians have a glories wonderful future in the Lords kingdom.
Listen to Djurkovic he knows the self inflicted demise of "Serbs".
Like the Serb sages say of Serbs. -We lie to our selfs and to our niebours thier is no truth in us.
Like Gods word say thier will be a separation of the evil goat nations.
In to eternal destruction, in to the outer darkness.
Every one knows Serbia is the wicked beligerent nation through the centuries.
(Lenard, 5 August 2022 01:18)
The sad thing is that DDj and Sj believe what they are saying.
Such a selective memory the Serbs have, forgetting everything that happened prior to operation Storm.
Serbian lies, and games in foreign policy are coming to the forefront and the rest of Europe is not buying it anymore.
But your president keeps feeding the myth, promoting hatred, because a government in Serbia that turns its attention to development and prosperity would kill his political career.
So he keeps feeding the myth and digging a hole under his own country even deeper.
I really hope you manage to get rid of your president and his cronies, fight corruption and become qualified to join the European Union, because I believe your candidate status my be reconsidered soon. That is if you ever had genuine intentions to join the European Union anyway.
Good luck to all of you.
(DavyJones, 5 August 2022 00:10)
Serbian people are the BIG Loosers of the 20th Century and some where at the middle of the 21st Century will become extinct when Serbia no longer will exist. Serbian people destroyed them selves being divided and self destructive ! For all the horrific atrocities committed by albanian siptar's and croatian nazi ustase the Serbian people ousted their royal Serbian kingdom and then put high on a pedestal croatian Satan josip broz tito to rule all of Jugoslavija ! Serbian people pretty much got what they asked for , they stayed quiet for all the atrocities committed on them 1940 - 1945 and from 1992 - 2022 the world also is not listening and staying quiet while Srbija slowly drifts away into dust ! As long as even one Serb remain alive on this earth the siptars and the croatian ustasa nazi's will not rest in peace because they thirsty for every drop of Serbian blood !!!
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 4 August 2022 15:25)
A new world paradigm is in the making and it does not bode well for Croatia. In fact, Croatia will not exist as a country at all. Croatia is destined to be ripped apart with some parts going to Italy, Hungary and Slovenia while Serbia will take Slavonia, right through to Zadar, but no Croats will live there LOL. No this is not a fantasy its a reality. Zoran Milanovic said it very well after Plenkovic went to Ukraine to advise Ukraine how to deal with the Russian population then placed sanctions against Russia. Milanovic knows what is going to happen, but wait until Germany cracks under the economic strain this winter and see how much Croatia's gets in the EU budget LOL.
The term dead man walking sums Croatia up very well.
(sj, 4 August 2022 12:10)
sj sj whene have you been rite about anything.
Spewing the same greater delusional "Serbia" bs as it shrinks.
Croatians have a glories wonderful future in the Lords kingdom.
Listen to Djurkovic he knows the self inflicted demise of "Serbs".
Like the Serb sages say of Serbs. -We lie to our selfs and to our niebours thier is no truth in us.
Like Gods word say thier will be a separation of the evil goat nations.
In to eternal destruction, in to the outer darkness.
Every one knows Serbia is the wicked beligerent nation through the centuries.
(Lenard, 5 August 2022 01:18)
A new world paradigm is in the making and it does not bode well for Croatia. In fact, Croatia will not exist as a country at all. Croatia is destined to be ripped apart with some parts going to Italy, Hungary and Slovenia while Serbia will take Slavonia, right through to Zadar, but no Croats will live there LOL. No this is not a fantasy its a reality. Zoran Milanovic said it very well after Plenkovic went to Ukraine to advise Ukraine how to deal with the Russian population then placed sanctions against Russia. Milanovic knows what is going to happen, but wait until Germany cracks under the economic strain this winter and see how much Croatia's gets in the EU budget LOL.
The term dead man walking sums Croatia up very well.
(sj, 4 August 2022 12:10)
The sad thing is that DDj and Sj believe what they are saying.
Such a selective memory the Serbs have, forgetting everything that happened prior to operation Storm.
Serbian lies, and games in foreign policy are coming to the forefront and the rest of Europe is not buying it anymore.
But your president keeps feeding the myth, promoting hatred, because a government in Serbia that turns its attention to development and prosperity would kill his political career.
So he keeps feeding the myth and digging a hole under his own country even deeper.
I really hope you manage to get rid of your president and his cronies, fight corruption and become qualified to join the European Union, because I believe your candidate status my be reconsidered soon. That is if you ever had genuine intentions to join the European Union anyway.
Good luck to all of you.
(DavyJones, 5 August 2022 00:10)
Serbian people are the BIG Loosers of the 20th Century and some where at the middle of the 21st Century will become extinct when Serbia no longer will exist. Serbian people destroyed them selves being divided and self destructive ! For all the horrific atrocities committed by albanian siptar's and croatian nazi ustase the Serbian people ousted their royal Serbian kingdom and then put high on a pedestal croatian Satan josip broz tito to rule all of Jugoslavija ! Serbian people pretty much got what they asked for , they stayed quiet for all the atrocities committed on them 1940 - 1945 and from 1992 - 2022 the world also is not listening and staying quiet while Srbija slowly drifts away into dust ! As long as even one Serb remain alive on this earth the siptars and the croatian ustasa nazi's will not rest in peace because they thirsty for every drop of Serbian blood !!!
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 4 August 2022 15:25)
(Lenard, 5 August 2022 01:18)
No Lenny I no spew delusion but fact. Where have I been wrong? You tell me. The big battle is Ukraine is very important so if west no win the west is f*****. Germany is the economic engine of EU and if Germany collapses, and they will and that’s guaranteed, then Croatia will become beggar state in EU – no money. Croatia exists because of EU money; fact!!!!
I give big prediction. If Nord Stream 2 is opened that means Germany becomes subordinate to Russia and Croatia f***** any way you look. Croatia’s future does not exist except to be torn apart.
Do tell us how “mighty” Croatia stop this from happening? Will Germany sacrifice itself for dumb arse Croats or will it push Croatia under a bus?????
(sj, 5 August 2022 13:24)
Lads I have no idea what DDJ knows but I know plenty. Once Germany is fucked Croatia is dead LOL. You can fantasise what ever you like but Croatia lives off EU money and if Germany goes into a depression Cro9atias gets SWFA money.
(sj, 5 August 2022 11:00)
(Concerned Albanian, 6 August 2022 06:35)
Kiss Russia butt and beg forgiveness that’s how.
The Russians are going to force Germany to open Nord Stream 2 because if not then German industry has no energy and economic collapse next step. Germany falters the EU has no money. If you believe all; this BS of getting gas somewhere else don’t because its all BS.
All those countries that rely on EU funding to survive will go down the drain if Germany falters.
My guess is that Olaf sholz and his band of greens will not be in power by December this year.
(sj, 7 August 2022 06:13)
A new world paradigm is in the making and it does not bode well for Croatia. In fact, Croatia will not exist as a country at all. Croatia is destined to be ripped apart with some parts going to Italy, Hungary and Slovenia while Serbia will take Slavonia, right through to Zadar, but no Croats will live there LOL. No this is not a fantasy its a reality. Zoran Milanovic said it very well after Plenkovic went to Ukraine to advise Ukraine how to deal with the Russian population then placed sanctions against Russia. Milanovic knows what is going to happen, but wait until Germany cracks under the economic strain this winter and see how much Croatia's gets in the EU budget LOL.
The term dead man walking sums Croatia up very well.
(sj, 4 August 2022 12:10)
sj sj whene have you been rite about anything.
Spewing the same greater delusional "Serbia" bs as it shrinks.
Croatians have a glories wonderful future in the Lords kingdom.
Listen to Djurkovic he knows the self inflicted demise of "Serbs".
Like the Serb sages say of Serbs. -We lie to our selfs and to our niebours thier is no truth in us.
Like Gods word say thier will be a separation of the evil goat nations.
In to eternal destruction, in to the outer darkness.
Every one knows Serbia is the wicked beligerent nation through the centuries.
(Lenard, 5 August 2022 01:18)
Serbian people are the BIG Loosers of the 20th Century and some where at the middle of the 21st Century will become extinct when Serbia no longer will exist. Serbian people destroyed them selves being divided and self destructive ! For all the horrific atrocities committed by albanian siptar's and croatian nazi ustase the Serbian people ousted their royal Serbian kingdom and then put high on a pedestal croatian Satan josip broz tito to rule all of Jugoslavija ! Serbian people pretty much got what they asked for , they stayed quiet for all the atrocities committed on them 1940 - 1945 and from 1992 - 2022 the world also is not listening and staying quiet while Srbija slowly drifts away into dust ! As long as even one Serb remain alive on this earth the siptars and the croatian ustasa nazi's will not rest in peace because they thirsty for every drop of Serbian blood !!!
(Dragoljub Djurkovic, 4 August 2022 15:25)
The sad thing is that DDj and Sj believe what they are saying.
Such a selective memory the Serbs have, forgetting everything that happened prior to operation Storm.
Serbian lies, and games in foreign policy are coming to the forefront and the rest of Europe is not buying it anymore.
But your president keeps feeding the myth, promoting hatred, because a government in Serbia that turns its attention to development and prosperity would kill his political career.
So he keeps feeding the myth and digging a hole under his own country even deeper.
I really hope you manage to get rid of your president and his cronies, fight corruption and become qualified to join the European Union, because I believe your candidate status my be reconsidered soon. That is if you ever had genuine intentions to join the European Union anyway.
Good luck to all of you.
(DavyJones, 5 August 2022 00:10)
Lads I have no idea what DDJ knows but I know plenty. Once Germany is fucked Croatia is dead LOL. You can fantasise what ever you like but Croatia lives off EU money and if Germany goes into a depression Cro9atias gets SWFA money.
(sj, 5 August 2022 11:00)
(Lenard, 5 August 2022 01:18)
No Lenny I no spew delusion but fact. Where have I been wrong? You tell me. The big battle is Ukraine is very important so if west no win the west is f*****. Germany is the economic engine of EU and if Germany collapses, and they will and that’s guaranteed, then Croatia will become beggar state in EU – no money. Croatia exists because of EU money; fact!!!!
I give big prediction. If Nord Stream 2 is opened that means Germany becomes subordinate to Russia and Croatia f***** any way you look. Croatia’s future does not exist except to be torn apart.
Do tell us how “mighty” Croatia stop this from happening? Will Germany sacrifice itself for dumb arse Croats or will it push Croatia under a bus?????
(sj, 5 August 2022 13:24)
(Concerned Albanian, 6 August 2022 06:35)
Kiss Russia butt and beg forgiveness that’s how.
The Russians are going to force Germany to open Nord Stream 2 because if not then German industry has no energy and economic collapse next step. Germany falters the EU has no money. If you believe all; this BS of getting gas somewhere else don’t because its all BS.
All those countries that rely on EU funding to survive will go down the drain if Germany falters.
My guess is that Olaf sholz and his band of greens will not be in power by December this year.
(sj, 7 August 2022 06:13)
