?OKUCANI, May 1 (Hina) - Croatia is today marking the sixth anniversary of the Flash military operation which liberated the territory of western Slavonia. Attending a central celebration in Okucani were defence and veterans' ministers
Jozo Rados and Ivica Pancic, as well as Deputy Interior Minister Josip Vresk. Operation Flash began on May 1 at 5:30am and ended the next day in the afternoon hours. During this time more than 500 square kilometres of occupied eastern Croatian territory was liberated, and control re-established over the Zagreb-Lipovac highway. The towns of Okucani, Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska, Lipik and Pakrac were liberated. Forty-two young men lost their lives in the action, and 162 were wounded. Speaking about the importance of Flash and the whole Homeland Defence War, Defence Minister Rados stressed Croatia also had to face the negative sides of the defence war in the past several years, for its own sake,
?OKUCANI, May 1 (Hina) - Croatia is today marking the sixth
anniversary of the Flash military operation which liberated the
territory of western Slavonia.
Attending a central celebration in Okucani were defence and
veterans' ministers Jozo Rados and Ivica Pancic, as well as Deputy
Interior Minister Josip Vresk.
Operation Flash began on May 1 at 5:30am and ended the next day in
the afternoon hours. During this time more than 500 square
kilometres of occupied eastern Croatian territory was liberated,
and control re-established over the Zagreb-Lipovac highway. The
towns of Okucani, Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska, Lipik and Pakrac were
liberated. Forty-two young men lost their lives in the action, and
162 were wounded.
Speaking about the importance of Flash and the whole Homeland
Defence War, Defence Minister Rados stressed Croatia also had to
face the negative sides of the defence war in the past several
years, for its own sake, which, he said, was necessary. However, the
positive aspects must be affirmed for the future, he added.
Minister Pancic said the Flash and Storm operations were
unquestionable. They were the largest operations of the Croatian
army and the biggest victories in Croatia's entire history, Pancic
stressed.
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