{"id":24587,"date":"2023-08-15T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=24587"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:12:01","slug":"president-milanovic-in-siroki-brijeg-croatia-has-a-responsibility-for-the-fate-of-croats-in-bih-as-a-constituent-people","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-in-siroki-brijeg-croatia-has-a-responsibility-for-the-fate-of-croats-in-bih-as-a-constituent-people\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 in \u0160iroki Brijeg: Croatia has a responsibility for the fate of Croats in BiH as a constituent people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThirty years later certain things have to be repeated because they are the truth, an important truth and since new people, new children and new generations are coming that cannot remember them\u201d, the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 said in \u0160iroki Brijeg, where he bestowed the Order of the Croatian Trefoil upon the 1st<\/sup> Croatian Defence Council (HVO) \u201cPoskok\u201d Battalion for outstanding merit of its members in the Homeland War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A truth that should be repeated is that Croatia was defended by a small number of good people. \u201cTwo hundred thousand people took part in Operation Storm, but only several tens of thousands participated in military operations. In 1991 when Croatia was defended, a small number of defenders from all regions participated only to subsequently liberate what had to be liberated. Those were the people from Herzegovina, the Dalmatian hinterland, Slavonia, Zagorje, people from the islands, folk people and a small number of people from large cities. This small number of people deserves to be remembered during their lifetime and after their death, deserves to be honoured\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President further underlined that the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina are one of three constituent peoples, they are an ineradicable people from this area, just like Serbs and Bosniaks. Speaking about the people who fought, defended and liberated Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, President Milanovi\u0107 highlighted the role of the people of Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone who wants to feel and try to understand what happened should look back at the early days of May 1991 when the local population of \u0160iroki Brijeg and western Herzegovina, stood in front of the JNA tanks that left Mostar allegedly on their way to Duvno. These people demonstrated a high degree of spiritual peace-making, civility, politeness as well as shrewdness and perspicacity because they knew what was in the works and felt what would result. A war erupted, a war for which events of earlier months in Croatia were not sufficient warning, an even fiercer war, a war with far greater consequences\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war ended in 1995 thanks to the Croatian guards\u2019 brigades, the Croatian Defence Council\u2019s brigades (HVO) and our allies from the Army of BiH, the President reminded, underlining that the war would not end \u201cif Croatian brigades had not reached Banja Luka\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is what paved the way for Presidents Tu\u0111man and Milo\u0161evi\u0107 to go to Dayton and represent the Croatian and Serbian peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By a set of circumstances, not by chance, it was not Kre\u0161o Zubak or Mate Boban, two significant and influential individuals of this area, but Croatian President Franjo Tu\u0111man. I am saying this because everything results from this legal fact, the Croatian responsibility and the responsibility of Zagreb alike for what is happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to safeguard it, to take care that this order is not destroyed, to play fair and ensure that every people is equal\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 feels there is no danger of war breaking out in Bosnia and Herzegovina. \u201cThis time all we have at our disposal are words, persuasiveness and determination. This people has demonstrated intelligence, perspicacity, determination, ineradicability, economic resilience, and all I can say is my admiration as in the song \u2018Do\u0111i da vidi\u0161, do\u0111i da se divi\u0161\u2019 (Come and see, come and admire)\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his address President Milanovi\u0107 commented on the work of the High Representative in BiH. \u201cAs long as High Representatives will have an interest and a will to change the laws of this land with decrees in order to achieve this and that, and will not take the time to amend the country’s electoral law, thereby preventing non-Croats from electing the representatives of the Croats, I will not have confidence in such justice. My duty is to talk about this with a sincere wish and my maximum contribution \u2013 and with the contribution of the Croatian government \u2013 to ensure that this is an orderly and functioning state in which Croats as a constituent nation live and for whose fate we are responsible\u201d, he underlined, and indicated that Croatia today is in a politically and economically stronger position that twenty or thirty years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, we do not make use of our legitimate force. As long as things will be like this, we have to be persistent, pacifistic, like those girls and women in May 1991. They tried to stop the war then, but did not succeed. Today we are trying to stop stupidity and injustice. We will not live in stupidity and injustice!\u201d, the President of the Republic stated, and concluded his address with the greeting \u2013 \u201clong live Herzegovina, long live Bosnia and Herzegovina and long live the Croats of BiH!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first organized unit of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the \u201cPoskok\u201d Battalion was founded on 19 July 1991 in the school premises in Kne\u0161polje. At first it was composed of 49 volunteers from the Municipality of \u0160iroki Brijeg, and eventually became a battalion. The \u201cPoskok\u201d Battalion fought on the most difficult battlegrounds from 1991 until the end of the war. They participated in the defence of \u010cepiku\u0107e when Ravno was attacked, and played a major role in the liberation of Mostar and in operation \u201cJackal\u201d. Furthermore, during all the war years, they participated in defence operations on battlegrounds in Central Bosnia\/Uskoplje, i.e. Operations Radu\u0161a, Ra\u0161ka Gora, Risovac. During preparations for operation \u201cStorm\u201d, they were transferred to the area of responsibility of the Kupres and Livno battlegrounds, and participated in all liberating operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accepting the Order of the Croatian Trefoil on behalf of the unit were the war commander of the \u201cPoskok\u201d Battalion Marinko Mikuli\u0107, and the war commander of the \u201cPoskok\u201d Company   An\u0111elko \u0106u\u017ei\u0107. Also recalling the \u201cPoskok\u201d Battalion\u2019s war service record besides President Milanovi\u0107 at the ceremony were the war commanders of the \u0160iroki Brijeg Brigade Colonel Kre\u0161imir \u010cavar, the former vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mariofil Ljubi\u0107 and the president of the \u201cPoskok\u201d Battalion \u0160iiroki Brijeg Association Mladen Ljubi\u0107 Vajta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the decorations ceremony President Milanovi\u0107 and his delegation laid a wreath at the Memorial Cross in \u0160iroki Brijeg. In President Milanovi\u0107\u2019s delegation at the wreath-laying ceremony were the former vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mariofil Ljubi\u0107, the war commander of the \u0160iroki Brijeg Brigade Kre\u0161o \u0106avar, retired General Ljubo \u0106esi\u0107, the Secretary-General of the Office of the President of the Republic Dinko Suton, the Special Adviser to the President for Homeland War Veterans Marijan Marekovi\u0107, the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivan Saboli\u0107, and the General Consul of the Republic of Croatia to Mostar Marko Babi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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