“Terrorists are shooting, they are shooting at us with a” black arrow “that throws two kilometers, and when the shooting is over, we call our friends to go. One did not respond, he was hit in the spine and died immediately, but he started to get cold. The other was alive, hit in the collarbone. The four of us put him in the tent wing and carried him three miles to our positions. It was dusk, we don’t have a rope, so the wing slips out of our hands, we had to throw a stone or a tree at the ends, so that it doesn’t slip out of our hands “, says this peasant with calloused hands for RINA, who still survives everything from day to night. Curses happened during the savage attack of the strongest armies in the world on the innocent Serbian people.
Today, he is fighting for survival, but he says that he would go to war again to defend Serbia. He works as a day laborer, on a family farm and is engaged in agriculture. He earns hard, but he doesn’t complain because he is used to much worse. He knew from Ostra on foot that he was going to Čačak, 22 kilometers away, because he was saving money to start a house. Twice, as he says, he brought a bag of 40 kilograms of concentrate for cows from Čačak, on his left shoulder. Last Christmas, he moved from a dilapidated hut to a new house built with contributions from the city of Čačak and Serbian businessmen, thanks to humane people he got a new tractor and no longer has to worry about his old log cabin overturning or cultivating his fields with his bare hands.
“I am the happiest man in the world. I did not want to complain, but the conditions in which we lived were very difficult, “said Zoran at the time, receiving the key to the new home from the hands of the mayor of Čačak, Milun Todorović.
rina Zoran still lives hard today
Gvozden Otašević, a journalist and correspondent of the newspapers “Politika” and “Ekspres”, television and radio “Politika”, described everything that this part of our homeland survived that gloomy spring. These records and testimonies were collected among the covers of the historical monument entitled “Čačak and Lučani”, difficult days of even harder nights “, published in 2019 by Glas zapadne Srbije and with the help of the factory” MB Namenska “from Lučani.
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“Such a job is a correspondent’s job. I had to go from one ashtray day and night, to record and describe the difficult moments and destinies of our people, and today I rejoice when I remember how much harmony there was among the people then – says Gvozden Otašević for RINA, who still writes for “Politika” ”And our agency.
The book, he says, is intended for the younger generation first, those who were small or unborn at the time of the savage aggression. In those days, we did not have mobile phones or the Internet, we had to find five marks for a liter of oil or a box of cigarettes, and the news could only be obtained if you went to the scene.
“One day, I guess by accident, I find a friend from Lucani on a stable phone and ask him how he sleeps in a town where enemies are savagely throwing bombs. He tells me: “And I don’t sleep in the apartment. As soon as they give the alarm signal, we take the bags, go to the forest above Lucani and end up there “.
Otasevic also notes that he himself does not know how to describe the fate and suffering of the Serbian people today.
“Only in the last century, little Serbia fought fierce battles in as many as six wars, while one Sweden, for example, last fought back in 1814 with its neighbors from Norway. That is why I am happy with every good news from our Serbia, which, here, only two decades after the war on the strongest armies on the planet, is rising again, “said Otasevic.
During the bombing in 1999, the city of Čačak was the target of the aggressor more than 10 times, who acted on the targets with planes and cruise missiles. A total of 215 projectiles fell on the city area, 18 citizens, soldiers and civilians were killed, while 22 were injured and over 3,000 residential buildings were damaged.
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