On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the "Operation Storm" in Croatia, the Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Sapic, stated that whenever Serbs managed to maintain unity, the enemy always "came out worse."

After laying a wreath at the Monument to the Victims of Wars from 1991-2000 in Tasmajdan Park in Belgrade, Sapic said that the Serbian people would never have been expelled from Croatia if it had not been for „various traitors“ among them.

„Even today, it seems to me that these problems persist, which is why Serbian unity is important, why national reconciliation is important, why it is crucial to end the cursed communism, and why it is important to finally set the rewritten history straight,“ he said.

On August 4, 1995, the military-police operation „Storm“ began, during which Croatia regained sovereignty over its entire territory, and the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ceased to exist.

While that day is celebrated in Croatia as Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day, it is observed in Serbia as the Day of Remembrance for the Killed and Expelled Serbs. Between 200,000 and 250,000 Serbs left Croatia due to „Operation Storm,“ and more than 2,000 people were killed or went missing.

The memorial service at the Church of St. Mark in Belgrade was attended by family members of those who perished in „Operation Storm.“ Citizens interviewed by the TV N1 reporter said, among other things, that it was „a staged damned war.“