A monument to the hero of the defense of Kosovo from Albanian bandits will be erected in Serbia
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić initiated the installation of a monument to the liberator of Orahovac in 1998, police “general” Radenovic in Krusevac.
This was reported by Novosti, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
On the initiative of Aleksandar Vučić, a monument to Lieutenant Colonel of the Yugoslav and Serbian police Veljko Radenovic (1955-2012), commander of the Serbian special forces from Kosovo Prizren, a hero sung in the song “General, General”, and leader of the liberation battle for Kosovo Orahovac in 1998, will be erected in Krusevac year.
The first monument to the famous “general”, as he was often called by his comrades and admirers, will be erected in Kruševac Bagdala, near a popular park and just a hundred meters from the ancestral home of the Radenovich descendants, and will be unveiled on March 24 during a ceremony dedicated to the beginning of the NATO aggression .
The monument to the hero will be three meters high with a pedestal, surrounded by benches and trees, while the figure of the “general” will be presented in his signature recognizable field uniform, and a wolf will stand next to him as a symbol of resistance.
“10 years have passed since his death, a lot of time, and yet we remembered our Veljko. We were told that Kujundzhich’s song “General, General” would be performed at the ceremony, which describes the heroism of my husband,” the warrior’s widow Slavica Radenovich, without hiding her emotions, shared her impressions of the upcoming event.
Veljko Radenovich was born in Djakovica, Kosovo, then lived in other cities of the region - Pec and Vucitrn. He went to war in 1998, being a diabetic, with insulin in his pocket.
After Serbian forces left Kosovo, he led a special police unit in southern Kuršumlija, near the administrative border with his native occupied region.
He retired as assistant commander of the gendarmerie detachment in Kraljevo, the uniform of which his son Vukasin proudly wears today.
He was distinguished by his courage and cheerful disposition. They say that during the operation to Kosovo, after returning to the Prizren headquarters, someone reported to Radenovich that he had two holes in his hat, and when he examined the headdress, he saw two obvious marks from a sniper rifle.
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