"This fact cannot be ignored and that's why I have said that I am expecting Croatian state officials to react to the crime which happened," Tadic told Radio-Television Serbia adding that ten years after Operation Storm, "Croatia is celebrating and the Serb people is mourning".
Tadic went on to say that during that operation between 200,000 and 250,000 Serbs had been expelled from their homes with up to 2,500 having gone missing.
Tadic also said that he "does not at all question the legitimacy of those legitimate military goals just as he did not do it in Srebrenica".
"I am speaking about victims, people who innocently were deprived of their only life," the Serbian president said adding that he would not cease mentioning victims among other peoples, Croats and Bosniaks, as well as victims among his Serb people as "this is a prerequisite for new values" in the area of the Balkans and the European future for all coming generations.
"I do also this for the sake of good relations between Serbia and Croatia and I expect reconciliation, a growth in economic trade, and I expect that we would be a pillar of security of the entire region," Tadic told the national television adding that those relations were of vital importance and that in order to further improve those relations "it is necessary to acknowledge the evil which we did to each other".
The primate of the Serb Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, on Thursday evening, held religious service in commemoration of Serbs who were killed during the 1995 Operation Storm.
The liturgy was held in Belgrade with the attendance of several thousand Croatian Serb refugees and Serbian top officials, including President Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.
After the religious rites, the so-called government in exile of the former Republic of Serb Krajina held a session.
This "government" which includes representatives of Croatian Serb rebels from early 1990s announced that it would lodge a lawsuit with international courts "over the crimes which happened against Serbs until 1995, and crimes against Serbs, Roma and Jews from 1941 to 1945 in the Fascist NDH (Independent State of Croatia" the legal successor of which, it said, is the Republic of Croatia.
Present at this "extraordinary session" in Belgrade were a high official of the Serb Radical Party, Aleksandar Vucic, and Luka Karadzic, the brother the war-time Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, of war crimes.