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Old 02.07.2005., 11:46   #1
Operacija Una, 18. rujna 1995.

Franjo Tudjman and the late Minister of Defence, Gojko Susak, the two most powerful national figures at that time, were responsible for the death of 50 soldiers from elite Croatian units - the First and Second Guard Brigades

Recently on Pantovcak, transcripts of conversations were found which uncover the scandalous way in which one of the most mysterious and unsuccessful war operations by the Croatian Army, "Operation Una" was led.

Firstly, Operation Una went ahead without the knowledge of the then-head of Chief Headquarters, Cervenko however it was known to the late Minister of Defence, Gojko Susak who was in accordance with President Tudjman. Of the top officials who knew of the operation were General Vinko Vrbanac, Operative executive head of GS HV, Admiral Davor Domazet and General Ante Gotovina

Information provided for Nacional from top military circles said two poorly judged decisions were made. Not even in line with basic military logic, at a totally inappropriate time, sometime after noon, in the middle of the day ,the units began penetrating the river. The water level was too high and the Una was too fast for such a tactical maneuver. The boat overturned. Aside from that, scouts did not test the terrain prior to crossing the river, a bridge-head was not established, so the "Tiger" and "Thunder" units, who were not expecting any real resistance, fell into, as one Nacional source said, a hornets nest. Serbian forces had not retreated, they were well trenched and began to fire from all sorts of weapons. Once they saw what was happening, the team which led the operation got scared and the operation simply fell apart.

It was becoming apparent that not enough forces had been gathered to see the operation successfully through to the end. On the other hand, the expected support from the Fifth Corpus of the Bosnia-Hercegovinian army failed to arrive, they remained stationary in the region of Bosanska Krupe and Otoke.

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