tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126344.post8253853686195835660..comments2014-08-01T11:36:54.899+02:00Comments on Balkan in beeld: Een land vol veteranenAgramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11594978007923556195noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126344.post-32163171240493381552008-01-20T14:38:00.000+01:002008-01-20T14:38:00.000+01:00Well, from another point of view, during the opera...Well, from another point of view, during the operation Storm Croatian territory was regained from the rebelled Serbs, a territory which was previously ethnically cleansed from all non-Serbs, (as thoroughly as it was cleaned from the Serbs afterwards), so again on a theoretical level it was nothing more then "defending" the country's territory which had been illegally occupied 4 years before and Marinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475267376926303938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126344.post-69122570593854921672008-01-19T10:27:00.000+01:002008-01-19T10:27:00.000+01:00My point wasn't that the word "branitelj" may soun...My point wasn't that the word "branitelj" may sound dubious. Those who participated in the so-called "Storm" or "Oluja" in 1995 probably don't qualify as "branitelj", but when you look at the history of the war, I can understand that they stick to that name.<BR/><BR/>The real issue in the TV documentary (HRT, I don't remember the name of the program) was the question why the list of defenders Agramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11594978007923556195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126344.post-6338887091467554062008-01-14T22:56:00.000+01:002008-01-14T22:56:00.000+01:00True, the number of 480.000 is definitely overinfl...True, the number of 480.000 is definitely overinflated for political reasons, but you have to realize also that in this category of "defenders" two types exist: One is the "combat sector" which includes of course soldiers, and the other is "non-combat sector" which includes all personnel somehow included in the conflict, such as drivers, nurses and doctors etc. <BR/><BR/>Also this term "defender"Marinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475267376926303938noreply@blogger.com