BELGRADE, Nov 17 (Hina) - Using mainly more or less known statistics, some Belgrade media on Saturday reported about the 10th anniversary of the fall of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar into the hands of the former Yugoslav
People's Army (JNA), following an 86-day-long siege during which the town was thoroughly destroyed. The Belgrade-based paper Danas asked Yugoslav Army (VJ) officials for an interview with competent personnel who could provide data for an article on the anniversary, but the VJ Main Staff replied participants in Operation Vukovar were no longer "active members of the VJ." The new agency Beta released a news item with a chronology of events. The agency recalled that the then Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had conferred 260 medals and diplomas on soldiers and commanders who participated in the operation at a ceremony held in Belgrade on December 1, 1991.A total of 75 decorations
BELGRADE, Nov 17 (Hina) - Using mainly more or less known
statistics, some Belgrade media on Saturday reported about the 10th
anniversary of the fall of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar into
the hands of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), following an
86-day-long siege during which the town was thoroughly destroyed.
The Belgrade-based paper Danas asked Yugoslav Army (VJ) officials
for an interview with competent personnel who could provide data
for an article on the anniversary, but the VJ Main Staff replied
participants in Operation Vukovar were no longer "active members of
the VJ."
The new agency Beta released a news item with a chronology of
events. The agency recalled that the then Presidency of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had conferred 260 medals
and diplomas on soldiers and commanders who participated in the
operation at a ceremony held in Belgrade on December 1, 1991.
A total of 75 decorations and as many medals for courage were
awarded at the ceremony. Around 100 soldiers and commanders were
promoted on that occasion.
(hina) rml