Minister Vukelic attends the anniversary of death of seventeen members of 129th Brigade
Defence Minister Branko Vukelic and Deputy Commander of the Army Brigadier General Zvonko Peternel on behalf of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces attended today, November 8, the ceremony marking the 19th anniversary of the death of seventeen members of the 129th Brigade in Draganicki Mrzljaki near Karlovac.
Celebration was attended by former members of the 129th Brigade and other veterans’ associations, family members and friends of the deceased, representatives of the police, local authorities, and others.
On the occasion of the anniversary, a service was held in the local Chapel of the Holy Cross, and then the delegation laid wreaths and lit candles at the memorial cross erected at the site of the tragedy. All present were reminded on the 8 of November 1991, when the aggressor’s aircraft rocketed army barrack in which were members of the second Company of the 129th Brigade. Seventeen were killed on the spot, with the same number wounded.