Croatia demands an apology from Serbia for reminding about the Republic of Serbian Krajina
Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlic Radman demanded an apology from Serbia after member of the Serbian delegation Milos Stojkovic called the former capital of the RSK “Serbian” and “occupied”.
In turn, Stojkovic said that he did not say anything like that, and the text with the words of another person was recorded on the video with him.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, theologian and social activist Milos Stojkovic was part of a delegation led by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia, which visited the territories of the former Republic of Serbian Krajina, now part of the Sibenik-Knin County of Croatia.
Despite the Croatian blitzkrieg of 1995, Serbs continue to live compactly in this territory, although in much smaller numbers than before.
The Serbian delegation arrived in these historical Serbian lands to congratulate their fellow tribesmen on the day of St. Sava of Serbia, and also to learn about their problems, given that the county suffered greatly during the recent earthquake.
Subsequently, a video appeared on Facebook with the participation of Stojkovic, who climbed the ancient citadel above Knin, the former capital of the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina, where the Croats who captured the city hoisted a huge national flag, which remains above the fortress to this day.
“I greet my friends from occupied Serbian territory,” he said in the video. – Now we are back in our Krajina, this is Knin for you, long live Serbia from here! Here they celebrate the so-called “Storm” (punitive operation of the Croatian military to clean up the RSK - ed.), they are celebrating the pogrom of the Serbian people, and we are here to show them what we are capable of, and that this is still the Serbian Krajina... This is their flag, God willing, we will one day return our flag to the occupied Serbian Knin.”
Stojkovic subsequently stated that he had nothing to do with this statement, that the voice was recorded over a video of him climbing the Knin citadel.
The Republic of Serbian Krajina was proclaimed by the Serbs of Croatia in 1991 in response to the coming to power in this republic of Croatian nationalists - neo-Ustashes, who achieved its secession from Yugoslavia. Local Serbs, who had lived on their lands for centuries, wished to remain part of Yugoslavia.
After the declaration of independence of the RSK, which was not recognized by any country in the world, including Yugoslavia, the Croatian leadership began a punitive operation against the republic.
In 1995, two-thirds of the RSK were destroyed by a NATO-led Croatian offensive. The remaining one third, where the Croats stayed away because of the common border with Yugoslavia, fearing that the Yugoslav army would intervene in the conflict, was “peacefully reintegrated” into Croatia in 1998 under UN pressure.
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