Milanović: Special Forces Are the Elite and Must Have a Spotless Reputation

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Photo: Nel Pavletic/PIXSELL
Photo: Nel Pavletic/PIXSELL

“We need to remember that of the 75 of your friends, combatants, Croatian knights, who were killed, thirty of them were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and half of the remaining 45 probably had their roots in BiH,” Milanović said.

“That was a time when Croatia was defended by sons from small communities and towns and the least of them came from downtown Zagreb and other large cities,” he claimed. “We must not forget them. We must not forget their children and descendants. They are a part of us in another country and we must not betray them.” 

We are not in alliances for them but for us

Milanović said that excellent skills can best be gained in cooperation and interaction with others. “Small nations and small armies cannot advance if they aren’t in constant contact with what is on the outside, with what is different and open. That is the fate and imperative of small nations because a small nation that is closed within itself degenerates,” he added.

“We aren’t in all those alliances for their sake but our own,” the president stressed.

National policy and security are an important priority and they are defined by the democratically elected government, concluded Milanović.

The president laid a wreath and lit a candle at a cross in front of a memorial room in the barracks in Delnice in honour of the members of the Special Forces who were killed. Tribute to the fallen soldiers was also paid by Brigadier General Perica Turalija on behalf of the Defence Ministry and Hungary’s military attache to Croatia.

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