Serbian Attack On Dubrovnik (December 1991), Hrvatska , Kroatien, Croatia, Croatie, Croazia.avi

Serbian and Montenegrians army under the masked name of Yugoslav Peoples Army attacked Dubrovnik (United Nations World Cultural Heritage Site) from the 1st of October 1991 until May 1992.

The 6th of December 1991 was the worst day for the Old Town of Dubrovnik when more than 2000 bombs were launched by the Serbo-Montenegrian Army on the Old Town from the sea, air and the hills close-by occupied by the enemy.
The objective of the aggressor army, which was influenced by the nationalist policies of then leader Slobodan Milosevic and his allies, was to occupy and put the Dubrovnik area under the control of Montenegro and Serbia.

Human lives, cultural sites, schools, museums, churches and hospitals didnt mean anything to Serbo-Montenegrian army and none of them were exempted from the bomb attacks. That day, the day of the 6th of December 1991, my Old Town was under severe fire of more than 2000 missiles. 79 citizens of Dubrovnik lost their lives and more than 100 people were wounded in the rain of bombs. Most of us were hiding in the basements of our homes, a few went to the shelters which were too few and too far away. Nine houses - baroque palaces of the Old Town were completely burnt to ground. It was the worst nightmare which can happen to you seeing your town in fire disappearing to ashes, innocent people dying, babies born to this world in the basement of their homes with the smell of smoke and burnt while you are completely impotent to do anything.

Frustration, sadness, anger and emptiness. That is what we all felt in that time, but especially that day. The only question we were asking was: Europe, World can you see this? Can you hear us? That day we all remember today as if it were yesterday.

Today, 18 years after, I remember with pain all the sufferings we went through especially seeing the sufferings of our beloved ones who struggled innocent and lost their lives in that crazy barbaric aggression. The truth is, I believe, that our beloved ones didnt lose their lives for nothing, but for freedom of all of us. The truth is also that They are gone forever and the emptiness doesnt want to disappear. Ever.

The scarves of the Town, although not visible any more on its face, are hidden and still very present in its soul and in the soul of everyone of us.

18 years after this nightmare, the justice is left unspoken.

Montenegrin and serbian generals Pavle Strugar, Miodrag Jokić, Milan Zec, and Vladimir Kovačević who conducted the military attack against Dubrovnik and surrounding areas in Croatia were or left without any sentence (Milan Zec), or were condemned on symbolical 7 years of prison and granted early appeal on the 1st September 2008 (Pavle Strugar, and Miodrag Jokic), or were not convicted until today (Vladimir Kovačević referred to the authorities of the Republic of Serbia which claim that he has not been fit for trial due to mental health problems).

All of these criminals walk freely today and remember the attacks on Dubrovnik as one anecdote in their ougly and terrific lives full of hatred and aggression.

How do we, the citizens of Dubrovnik walk today after this aggression? Are we free?
We are free. Free of all the people and the material things we lost in that war, and free of the little pieces of our souls which died in the sufferings.

The ones that survived the attacks can thank to the Lord that he helped them save the lives. Although among those alive today, there are the ones who would prefer that they were gone also with their beloved ones. The ones who passed away dont remember anything. Dont know anything.
There is emptiness in all of us, and the big question in this emptiness Why? doesnt go away.
Our characters changed. We all changed. We all somehow hoped that the aggressors will be condemned but until today they arent, and the events happening today are showing us that the way out of this Balkan nightmare even now is still not visible clearly.
In todays World the cards are not mixed in a just way and the World, especially Europe, is sending us the message which we need to think about clearly.

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[VlahoDubrovnik]

Serbian and Montenegrians army under the masked name of Yugoslav Peoples Army attacked Dubrovnik (United Nations World Cultural Heritage Site) from the 1st of October 1991 until May 1992. The 6th of December 1991 was the worst day for the Old Town of Dubrovnik when more than 2000 bombs were launched by the Serbo-Montenegrian Army on the Town of Dubrovnik.

[RadioNorthSea]

Very sad to see this happening to such a beautiful city.

[IslamIsPureTerror]

@isusovratnik samo ste ljubomorni na nase ljepo more pa zato uzivas gledat ovo bombardiranje,,,,,sram te bilo pred bogom i pred ljudima......stidi se !!!!!!!

[vojasrbin]

Malo je ovo za sve sto su hrvati ucinili Srbima.Trebalo je odmah,u prvim mesecima rata,sravniti zagreb sa zemljom a ne odugovlaciti

[mario72151]

Dubrovnik je najbolji grad na balkanu jebes srbi oni nemaju nista

[kosovaforever1000]

FUCK OFF SRBIJA !!! i love croatia 4 ever..

[ScorpionEgypt86]

:'(

[armaalmande]

ovo nema veze sa ratom.....ovo je zalosno i divljacki DUBROVNIK je najljepse mjesto na cjelom prostoru bivse juge,,,,,,

[sedlari1000]

Dubrovnik always made mistakes

[alauc]

Ovo nas treba podsjecati i ojačati u nama pravdoljubivost i istinoljubivost. JNA je otišla u ropotarnicu prošlosti, ali tragovi mržnje nisu nestali nestajanjem institucije.

[vanja81]

dodatak....hrvati se srame za rusenje starog mosta u mostaru. zamislite si vi koji ste gadjali dubrovacke zidine da vama hrvati (ili bilo tko drugi) ovako gadjaju petrovaradinsku tvrdjavu u novom sadu ili nesto drugo cime se vi ponosite. ovo je ne samo srpsko-crnogorska sramota nego i svjetska sramota sto nisu sprijecili granatiranje kako sam vec napisao, najljepseg grada na svijetu

[vanja81]

unistavati ovako najljepsi grad na svijetu mogu samo seljacine sa 2 razreda osnovne skole

lijep pozdrav dubrovcanima iz osijeka

[svantovid]

Ludnica znaci,sjajna disko lopta :)))