OPERATION TEMPEST - A CRIME WITHOUT A PUNISHMENT, A CRIME THAT ENDURES: Why are we in BLACK today, why do we GRIEVE and whom do we MOURN?!
On this very day launched "Operation Storm", because of which 280,000 Serbs were left homeless, and about 2,000 people were killed, this is why Telegraf.rs mourns today
That August 4, 1995, the Croatian army on the orders of the then Croatian President Franjo Tudjman launched "Operation Storm" and entered the Serbian enclave (Republic of Serbian Krajina), a zone under the UN protection.
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According to "Veritas" some 280,000 Serbs left their homes and went, in the biggest refugee wave in Europe since the Second World War, to Bosnia and Yugoslavia.
These days for the Serbs and the whole world will remain forever remembered. Kilometer long columns of tractors, trucks and cars full of people headed into this escape, escape to life.
These people left behind themselves everything they had and their whole lives, and many of them have disappeared and are being searched for til this day.
Just because of this, because of all the victims who have "fallen" because they wanted just to survive and escape from the knife, bullet or bomb. Telegraf.rs is mourning today and will be in BLACK!
Here's WHY we are mourning:
* 1,852 killed and missing persons
* 930 persons have so far been buried (222 women / 7 people up to age 18 / 553 civilians / 442 persons over 60 years old)
* 1,058 civilians were killed by members of the Croatian side
* 80 people have died of natural causes in the column
* 6 men committed suicide
* 922 people still listed as missing (647 civilians / 321 women / 272 Serbian soldiers)
* 25,000 houses were destroyed
* 920 monuments / 410 stores / 181 Cemeteries / 96 museums / 78 churches/ 52 health centers