« To remember well as the most important paper from patriotic upbringing »: Commemorative Academy was held on the occasion of 26 years since Battle of Baskets (Photo) – Society
The Commemorative Academy on the occasion, during the battle of basket, during the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija, was held tonight at the National Theater in Belgrade, with the presence of state officials, representatives of the Army, Police, Religious Communities and other officials.
Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans’ and Social Issues Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski stated that the Serbian soldier, « left without supporting the world, resolved and determined not to move a single meter before the aggressor. »
She stated that 9. April 1999. year, a mass artillery remedies of the terrorist liberation army of Kosovo (KLA), official Albania, NATO aviation and members of the French legion of foreigners started.
« In the history of war, such a disproportion between the force that attacks and those who defend himself. She defended Serbia, her grown, her life, gave more than 100 members of the Yugoslav Army, » said Đurđević Stamenukovski.
She estimated that today she lives in time of forgetting and superficiality, and invited everything to forget the names of those who died, « not because the past wanted revenge, but because the truth requires justice. »
« We say from this place to fight that the most beautiful squares through our homelands are spelled in the students’ textbooks in particular, not to be forgotten and remember well, as the most important patriotic education lesson, » Minister said.
She added that the Serbs lost and returned Kosovo and Metohija in their past, but that they never imagined their future without Kosovo and Metohija, adding that Serbian borders were bordered « just the ones we celebrate tonight. »
In the name of the fighters from baskets, the artillery Lieutenant Colonel in Pensions Srdjan Nikolić said that the conditions for the signing of the Kumanova agreement and the adoption of the United Nations Security Council was obtained.
« NATO, despite its superiority, has not entered the winner, and Kosovo and Metohija will always be an inseparable withdrawal, nobody wanted to leave the position, because we were firmly, » Nikolic said.
According to him, NATO operations « arrow » wanted to create conditions for the entry of land forces deeply in the territory of Serbia, as well as to cut and destroy the Unit of the Pristina Corps.
« Thanks to the knight courage of the bare young men, but also volunteers, we broke the arrows to the enemy and defended our Kosovo and Metohija, » Nikolic said, and called for heroes from baskets to not be forgotten.
In the Commemorative Academy, Prime Minister Đuro Macut, Ministers Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski, Snežana Paunović, Nenad Vujić, representatives of state institutions, judicial bodies, Serbian Army, Religious communities and others.
The battle on the basket that took place 67 days at the border between the then Yugoslavia and Albania, it was completed on this day 26 years ago.
The battle began 9. April 1999. when the Karaula Koshra took the liberation army of Kosovo (KLA) and formally lasted until 14. June, when the Yugoslav Army (VJ) with the basket based on the KFOR forces with KFOR forces.
The KLA forces, supported by the Regular Army of Albania and Nato Aviation, attacked members of the VJ to carry out the country invasion in Kosovo and cut communications units of VJ in Gjakova and Prizren.
At the peak of the fighting, the Yugoslav Army had about 1,200 soldiers, and the KLA, with volunteers and Albanian units, five to six thousand.
According to different data, 108 members of the Yugoslav Army lost life, as well as about 200 KLA members. On both sides, about 500 people were injured in the sum.
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