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Croatia holds military parade celebrating war victory despite Serbia's criticism

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Croatia on Tuesday held a military parade to mark 20th anniversary of Operation Storm, a military offensive in the war of 1990s, in Zagreb, but it received fierce criticism from Serbia.

Some 3,000 Croatian soldiers and other special forces, 300 military vehicles and 30 planes took part in the parade.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, as supreme military commander, opened the parade and the ceremony was attended by Croatian high-ranking officials and 42 foreign delegations.

Operation Storm, launched 20 years ago in the areas where Serbs controlled in the southern of Croatia, still throws a gloom over the relations between Croatia and Serbia. For Zagreb the operation is a great victory, restoring control of its 18.4 percent of territory, while Belgrade views it as a huge suffering of the Serb people.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic last week condemned Croatia's celebrations, saying that Operation Storm "was the largest ethnic cleansing since the Second World War," according to local media reports. Endit