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Beta News Agency
August 4, 2009
Anniversary of Operation Storm marked
BELGRADE: Today marks the 14th anniversary since a Croat military onslaught on
the country's Serb area of Krajina that ended in the murder of more than 2,000
people.
The attack, known as Operation Storm, also saw over 200,000 Serbs driven out of
Croatia as refugees.
The Veritas center for documentation and information says that only in the
former Sector South 22,000 Serb homes were pillaged, demolished or set on fire.
The 1995 assault came despite the fact that the area was under UN protection.
In Belgrade's Church of St. Marko this Tuesday, the dead will be remembered in
a service dedicated to their souls, followed by a commemoration for the fallen
Serbs in Croatia.
Several dozen refugees have traveled from Serbia to their hometowns in Croatia
where they too will attend services in rebuilt Serbian Orthodox temples. Then,
they will place flowers along Petrovačka Road, along which they fled to become
refugees 14 years ago.
The refugees will do the same on the Sremska Raca border crossing, where they
entered Serbia in the summer of 1995.
In Belgrade on Monday, President Boris Tadic said the return of refugees,
problems concerning the return of Serb property in Croatia, and the exhumation
and identification of the victims are the issues that must be resolved as part
of improving the overall relations between Serbia and Croatia.
Tadic met with a delegation of the Association of Families of the Missing and
Killed in Croatia, headed by association president Cedomir Maric, his office
said in a statement.
The delegation informed him about their problems and expressed dissatisfaction
because the exhumation and identification of the victims of the war in Croatia
is proceeding slowly.
According to the delegation's figures, some 2,230 Serbs are still listed as
missing in Croatia.
Meanwhile, that country is today celebrating the anniversary as its national
holiday.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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