35 Years Since the Heroic Death of Major Milan Tepić

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On this day, exactly 35 years ago, Major Milan Tepić died heroically during the fighting in the vicinity of Bjelovar.

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Due to the force of the explosion, the Croatian defenders who were blocking the warehouse were also killed, and hundreds of residential and commercial buildings in the surrounding area were damaged.

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In 1991 Tepic was the commander of the Barutan weapons and ammunition depot at the time of the Battle of Bjelovar in the capacity of captain

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The explosion was triggered by JNA Major Milan Tepić – a “great hero” for Serbs and Serbia, to whom monuments are erected and whose streets are dedicated. On this day, September 29, 1991, JNA Major Milan Tepić blew up a weapons depot at Barutana near Bjelovar in order to prevent it from being handed over to the Croatian Army. He died in the explosion and […]

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On this day 35 years ago, Major Milan Tepić, the head of the Yugoslav People's Army, died heroically refusing to hand over a warehouse with military equipment in Bedenik near Bjelovar to Croatian paramilitary forces. The neo-Ustasha regime of Franjo Tuđman, determined to secede Croatia from Yugoslavia, having organized and armed members of the HDZ and similar extremists in paramilitary formations, throughout the [...]