Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday "commemorated the 30th anniversary of the shelling of the government building by laying a wreath at the memorial plaque on it and saying that those had been fateful moments for Croatia's freedom," state agency Hina informed the public.

“Today is 30 years since the shelling of the government building. At that time it was the headquarters of the first president of the republic, Franjo Tudjman. That afternoon, a Yugoslav Army MiG shelled the government building with the obvious goal to kill Croatia’s leadership,” Plenkovic said.

He added that “together with Tuđman at that moment were the chairman of the presidency of the former Yugoslavia, Stjepan Mesic, and federal prime minister Ante Markovic, who were talking about the Great Serbia military aggression against Croatia.”

“Unfortunately, one person was killed then and several were wounded. Fortunately, president Tudjman and the other officials survived. Those were fateful moments for Croatia’s freedom, for all that we have today, and the next day, in the night between 7 and 8 October, the Croatian parliament passed key decisions on independence,” Plenkovic said.

He announced that “parliament would mark its day tomorrow,” saying they remembered that time “with a lot of pride and with the important message that young generations should be informed of all the key events in the creation of present-day Croatia.”

MP Zdravka Busic (HDZ) was in the government building when it was targeted. “God wanted us to survive. It’s almost impossible to imagine what it was like. I’m happy that an indictment has finally been filed against the pilot and commander of the military squadron that headed for the government building and Croatia. We know that the commander of that squadron was Ljubomir Bajic. I hope light will be shed on everything,” state agency quoted Busic as saying.