Cynicism is off the charts: Croatian leadership invited Serbs to celebrate the anniversary of their ethnic cleansing
Prime Minister of Croatia and leader of the ruling party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Andrej Plenkovic invited Deputy Prime Minister, representative of the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS) Boris Milosevic to take part “in the celebrations in honor” of the anniversary of the destruction of the Republic of Srpska Krajina.
At the same time, the head of the Croatian government assured that cabinet members are discussing how to “pay tribute” to the suffering of the Croatian Serbs.
Anniversary of “Oluja” in Knin liberated from the Serbs
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, it is not yet known how Milosevic reacted to this proposal, but Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic called Plenkovic’s initiative “an unprecedented political provocation.” He recalled that as a result of the Croatian blitzkrieg, called Operation Oluja (Storm), out of 560 thousand Croatian Serbs, only 180 thousand remained in this country.
“They carried out ethnic cleansing of their own state, and they carried out what was the goal of the Ustasha movement,” Dacic commented on the situation to Pink TV.
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Let us recall that Operation Oluja took place in August 1995, when the Croatian army, trained and armed by NATO, cleared the territory of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) in 84 hours, except for Eastern Slavonia adjacent to Yugoslavia, where the Croats did not dare to venture due to fears of a backlash from the Yugoslav army - this territory was subsequently “peacefully reintegrated” into Croatia under Western pressure.
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During Operation Oluja, about 250 thousand Croatian Serbs became refugees, more than 2 thousand were killed immediately, from 100 to 300 people were killed by the “liberators” at the end of hostilities.
First of all, Croatian troops raised a huge Croatian flag over the capital (on a hill) of the conquered RSK - Knin, which hangs there to this day. And every year in the key cities of the destroyed Serbian Republic of Croatia, the so-called “liberation days” are celebrated with pathos.
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It is the Croatian scenario for resolving the Donbass issue that politicians in modern Ukraine quite often refer to.
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