20.05.2019.
Minister Vulin: You should express regret over the killed soldiers
Serbia did nothing to provoke and justify the NATO aggression. That is why it hurts when we hear those statements given with bad grace, that they regret over the civilian casualties during the NATO aggression. This is not enough to regret over civilians, you have to regret over our soldiers and our policemen as well. No one has the right to kill a single soldier or a policeman in a sovereign country – Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin said as he has laid a wreath today at the memorial in front of “Dr Dragiša Mišović” Clinical-Hospital Centre, commemorating the Guard soldiers and patients killed in that facility during the NATO aggression in 1999.
He stressed that no one has the right to destroy lives, to cripple family to someone just because someone is a soldier or a policeman.- I expect from you to apologize deeply not only for the civilian victims, which you still have not managed to do, I ask you to apologize for all the victims, for each and every soldier and policeman, because none of our soldiers and policemen should have been killed in NATO aggression. Because, none of our soldiers and policemen did anything that would justify their death. We deeply regret, we suffer, we remember, we will never forget, we cannot even forgive. Ask for forgiveness, but not from me, not from politicians, not from the state, ask for forgiveness from families, from their parents, ask for forgiveness from their children. No soldier and policeman should have been killed. You should finally say that you regret not only over civilians, but also over soldiers and policemen. None of them should have been killed – Minister Vulin said.
The delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces led by Minister Vulin included Brigadier General Savo Iriškić, Chief of Human Resources Department of the General Staff, and Brigadier General Miroljub Čupić, Chief of Intelligence and Reconnaissance Department of the General Staff.
Representative of the families, Branislav Pejčinović, said that young soldiers were those who were killed on that occasion; they left no one except for their parents who will continue to mark that date gathering in that place.President of the Belgrade City Assembly, Nikola Nikodijević, stressed: this is a way to keep together memories of seven innocent victims of war, conscripts, and three immobile patients who lost their lives when the hospital was hit.
- Mournfulness and pain for people who innocently perished in the NATO aggression is as big as the first day. There is not a single convention, no law according to which any hospital can be a legitimate goal and this is one of the most horrific crimes that happened during the NATO aggression – Nikodijević stressed.
Vladimir Đukić, Director of “Dr Dragiša Mišović” Clinical-Hospital Centre, recalled that the sad two decades have passed since hospitals were hit in the campaign hypocritically called “Merciful Angel” and the Clinical-Hospital Centre was unfortunate enough to be a legitimate target. He added that those who were killed were patients, those who could not escape, who were under treatment by medical personnel, and that crime, he stressed, we must never forget.
At the place where the soldiers of the Guard brigade perished, in front of “Dr. Dragiša Mišović” hospital, the wreaths were also laid by representatives of the city of Belgrade, the families of the victims, and the delegation of the hospital.
The wreath-laying ceremony in front of “Dr Dragiša Mišović” Clinical-Hospital Centre is one in a series of events marking 20 years since the aggression on our country.
