Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandrokovic said on Friday that Serbia was traditionally sending historically inaccurate messages on the occasion of the anniversary of Croatian military and police Operation Storm.

These messages are an attempt to change the perception of what we know to be a historic truth, and the truth is that Serbia was the aggressor against Croatia and that the sacrifices Croatia had made were enormous, Jandrokovic said in Split.

“Serbia must face history and its own responsibility,” the parliament speaker said, adding that “attempts to revise history will not fall on fertile ground.”

“We know that Croatia was attacked, that we led a just war and that we won the war,” he added.

Jandrokovic went on to say that “what is happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina must be openly addressed,” namely “attempts to push the Croat people out of the position of a constituent and equal people.”

He underscored that it was Croatia’s “constitutional and moral obligation to help Croats in Bosnia.”

August 5 is probably the most controversial topic in relations between Serbia and Croatia – the Serbs mourn those killed and expelled in the 1995 Operation Storm while Croatians celebrate the victory which was the final blow to the four-year rebel Serbs’ rule of some 25 percent of Croatia’s territory.