{"id":23981,"date":"2023-06-22T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=23981"},"modified":"2023-06-23T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T09:39:48","slug":"president-milanovic-lays-wreath-at-donje-bare-to-the-brave-youth-of-our-heroic-dalmatia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-lays-wreath-at-donje-bare-to-the-brave-youth-of-our-heroic-dalmatia\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 Lays Wreath at Donje Bare: To the Brave Youth of our Heroic Dalmatia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe reason for my coming here is the great battle in which many of our people participated and were killed. I am referring to Dalmatians from Croatia, first of all Croats, Serbs from the Knin area, people from Croatia. A huge number of Croats, exclusively Dalmatians, left their bones here eighty years ago\u201d, the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 stated after laying a wreath and paying tribute at the memorial to the fallen combatants of the Second Dalmatian Brigade at Donje Bare in Sutjeska National Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 wrote the following inscription on the wreath: \u201cTo the Brave Youth of our Heroic Dalmatia\u201d. President Milanovi\u0107 laid a wreath at Donje Bare on the occasion of Anti-fascist Struggle Day and the 80th<\/sup> anniversary of the Battle of Sutjeska in which more than 7,500 Partisan fighters were killed including 3,032 Croatian Partisans from Dalmatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 stated that nearly all of Dalmatia fought here. Later on he will pay tribute at the memorial in Tjenti\u0161te. \u201cThose were freedom fighters, fighters against Nazism and fascism. This is a memorial to Dalmatians only, the Second Dalmatian Brigade; this is a memorial to the brave Dalmatian, Croatian youth, the Partisans of that time. Down below I will pay tribute to the Partisans, fighters against Nazism and fascism\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople fought for something they believed in and were prepared to die. There were very many of them, the whole of Dalmatia, the survivors ended up in Trieste. The people who survived here formed the backbone of the army that incorporated Istria into the Croatian state\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 said in concluding his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Battle of Sutjeska, which lasted from mid-May to mid-June 1943, was one of the fiercest in this area in the Second World War. Close to 22,000 Partisan troops at the Sutjeska River, including 4,000 wounded fighters, fought against German and Italian forces 127,000 in total. During the breakthrough across the Sutjeska, a special role was played by the Second Dalmatian Brigade that had positions in Gornje and Donje Bare, and guarded the Partisan army\u2019s left flank while crossing the Sutjeska and pulling out of the encirclement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the period from 5 to 9 June 1943, the fighters of the Second Dalmatian Brigade repelled all attacks by the Germans and Italians who were by far more numerous than the Partisans and better armed. By 15 June 1943, the greater part of the Partisan troops managed to escape the encirclement but the main part of the 3rd<\/sup> Partisan army\u2019s strike division together with the hospital did not manage to withdraw. In the Partisan army were 8,925 fighters from Croatia, mainly from Dalmatia, 5,195 of them. By the end of the Battle of Sutjeska, 7,543 Partisan fighters were killed including 3,032 Partisans from Dalmatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accompanying President Milanovi\u0107 were the Head of the Office of the President of the Republic Orsat Miljeni\u0107, the Adviser to the President for Defense Ivica Oluji\u0107, the Adviser to the President for Human Rights and Civil Society Melita Muli\u0107, and the Staff Officer for Operational Support of the Cabinet for Defense and National Security of the Office of the President Colonel Ivica Kranj\u010devi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Ana Marija Kati\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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