Remembering Oluja

This dark day in history, August 5, 1995 is when Operation Storm(Operacija Oluja) happened. This one is tragic, especially for the Serbs of Croatia since the operation that was funded by Bill Clinton, EU powers except Greece and the world ignorance made this happened as the Croatian Army(Vojska Hrvatska) with the help of the evil NATO forces storm their way through the Serb held territories in the Krajina, which would be the catalyst of the expulsion of 90% of Serbs from the whole of Croatia.

"Serbia and Serbs are ready for forgiveness and reconciliation but everything does not depend only on us," President Tomislav Nikolić has said.

Addressing the Serbs driven out of their homes during Operations Storm who now reside in the weekend settlement of Banstol, Nikolić said that "our reputation is clean and our bread ready to go where the stones thrown at us came from."

Furthermore, the president said that "forgiving never means forgetting, but throughout our history we have been known to, in the name of some interests that were everybody's except Serbs', easily renounce and almost forget our victims."

He added that "the greatness and strength of a people is not measured by the number of those killed and forever exiled, weak and unprotected" - and that those who committed crimes have "the stamp of criminals" forever imprinted on their reputation.

"Your hearths were turned by madmen into flames, and your suffering is celebrated as their victory and a day they renewed their state, left to them by (Ante) Pavelić, that was recognized only by Hitler," Nikolić said, it reference to the WW2-era Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH).

Toma said a lot and in the bridge(Sremska Rača) were Serbs crossed during the genocidal act by the evil powers, PM Aleksandar Vučić, Republika Srpska Predsednik Milorad Dodik and Patrijarh Srpski Irinej went with thousand of Srbi to commemorate the place as well.

Patrijarh Irinej: "the Serb people suffered at the hands of their brothers to whom they are tied with history."

It is worth to note that this day is one of the saddest days in Serbian history not only in political and social sense but religious as well. It is one of the things engraved on the Serbs' memories and for their future to regain what is truly theirs.

Srbi u Hrvatskoj

From Wikipedia

They are one of the few. However, less than 90% of the Serbs remained in Croatia. What would be the implications if the Serbs there went to Srbija or Bosna? Since Oluja or operation Storm, they went through Bosna and Srbija.

This could be trivial. Some members of the Serbian basketball team was born in Croatia. Notably:

Predrag "Peđa" Stojaković

Milan Mačvan

Kosta Perović

Zoran Erceg

Đorđe Gagić

Duško Savanović

One exception is the Bosnian Serb Aleksandar "Saša" Vasiljević who was born in Croatia.

In actuality, the Serbs settled in modern Croatia during the 7th century which is current day former Yugoslav republics. Through building kingdoms and empires, monasteries and churches belonging to the Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva, invasion by Ottoman and Hapsburg states, Catholicizing most Serbs from Dubrovnik,  and through the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Jugoslavija, they survived like nothing happened.

Then, the Nezavisna Držva Hrvatska imposed their anti-semitical and barbaric war against the Serbian Orthodox population living in Croatia. Serb hunting season started, as Ante Pavelić, Alojzije Stepinac and others supported this fascist state as mentioning "Bog i Hrvati" or "For God and Croats". 700,000 and as more as 1,400,000 were killed, mostly Serbs of course. Few Jews were saved because of the Vatican's rescue efforts like how they are doing also in Poland.

In socialist Yugoslavia, Serbs born in Croatian soil are the ones who are serving as police, government and economic minsters, declaring themselves as Yugoslavs.

Then came, the war. Both Croats and Serbs were fighting for territory and representation. As what i know, when Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, the Serbs want to break from Croatia, like how West Virginia, who was loyal to the Union separated itself from Confederate Virginia. As war rages, both sides committed atrocities. Siege of Vukovar, destruction of Serbian churches and monasteries, Serbian homes were destroyed or forcibly taken by the new Croatian settlers and costing the lives of Josip Kir and Milan Levar in the process of their fair and just Croatia.

USA came to give Croatia total independence, bombing the Krajina Serbs into submission as what is called operation Storm. A storm that lasted a few days, resulting to a death of thousands and quarter of a million ethnically cleansed Serbs escaping to Srbija or other countries as Slobo and his generals abandoned them. Some of them are currently in Serbia or represented the country in all fields while the Croatian Serbs were left served for Croatia. Here are some:

Marko Popović-basketball player

Arijan Komazec-Basketball player

Milorad Pupovac-politician

Vojislav Stanimirović-politician

Željko Jovanović-politician

Branko Grčić-politician

Milanka Opačić-politician

Slobodan Uzelac-politician

Here is just a short summary of the history of Croatian Serbs. I don't know much but this is what truly and is happening now.