The central commemoration for victims of the Croatian military operation Storm on its 27th anniversary was held at the main city square in Novi Sad.
The Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije served a memorial service for the victims and the crowd was addressed by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite Presidency.
The commemoration was also attended by outgoing Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, Serbian Parliament speaker Vladimir Orlic and many other Serbian officials, as well as the Republic of Srpska’s President Zeljka Cvijanovic.
The operation ‘Storm’ (‘Oluja’) began on August 4, 1995, when Croatia launched a military offensive in the then Republic of Srpska Krajina. Around 250,000 Serbs fled their homes, 1,881 people were killed and, according to the Documentation and Information Centre Veritas. 654 people are still listed as missing.
Vucic said that operation Storm is not a myth, but stressed that “we don’t dream of revenge and of moving the borders”.
“We will kneel for peace”, said the President, adding that this is the ninth consecutive year that the state is in this way marking the pogrom and, as he said, the biggest ethnic cleansing of a people.
(N1, 04.08.2022)
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