I was in the Operation Storm in Petrinja. I'm sorry for the Danish soldiers, but make no mistake about it, Croats would do it all over again if they had to.
Operation Storm is a perfect example of a blitzkrieg. If 4 years prior, Vukovar was Croatia's own Thermopylae battle, Orija was the equivalent of the Battle of Palataea.
KVD11MV4 not really, gen. Stipetić already denied that multiple times because there was a lot of conspiracy theorie claims and still are from the Serbian side. The only thing bought from the US were drone pictures of the area, which were later put to good use. Another thing that the US provided was the attack on Udbina airstrip, after what they believed was I think an attack on Sarajevo, rendering the planes there useless, which were a thorn in Croatian side. Operation Storm was won in central Bosnia and on Dinara. The operations leading up to it, are the reason for the quick success of Operation Storm. It was the decision of Croats to get heavy guns on Dinara and tanks there to have both a dominant position and an element of surprise. It's also noticeable that Kordun held out for a longer period of time, because they were dug in and Croats made tactical mistakes, which after reorganising the attack that followed the old plan that was practised, again, Croatian doing.
UN troops had a task to ensure peace in so named "serbian krajina" which was Croatian territory. Under UN (including danish troops) "protection" during 4 years in "krajina" Serbs killed over 1.000 civilians and continued constant artillery attacks on free parts of Croatia. After 4 years Croatians said : ok enough is enough. By the way Mr. Guldhammer you can not put a blame on Croatian forces for Dvor massacre.This is just not fair. There are witnesses claiming that was a crime made by serbian troops during their withdrawal. One more thing is important for you to know: 24 hours before operation Storm all foreign countries which had a soldiers as part of UN in occupied parts of Croatia received warning in order to remove their soldiers from dangerous points. Some countries did it.
@ Mr. Guldhammer. As Croatian vet I can say that UN forces failed but I am not blaming You. I understand that You just followed Your orders just as I followed mine. Reasons why UN and NATO allowed Serbs to commit serious war crimes are political. As citizen of Croatia which is now member of NATO and EU (they were our goals from beginning) I can only say to You thanks for Your service in my country without sarcasm . I really mean it. Don't forget that war always begin when first side think that is stronger than other side. We were other side. All the best to You.
To date, it is not clear whether it was Serbian, Croatian or autonomous soldiers who were behind the massacre in Dvor. The Danish UN company commander in Dvor felt let down by the Un system for not intervening. He did not have the capacity to intervene without having his soldiers annihilated. My own assessment is that I would think that it was autonomous soldiers who did it. In those days there were quite a few autonomous soldiers from both sides who committed some horrific assaults. I our Camp we were locked form continuous bombardments and tank attack and only had capacity to protect the camp
Since you where there and saw everything can you please publish videos what happened before operation storm in all those areas? What happened with all nonserbs who lived on that area and what did you as UN did to prevent that.Since you know exakt number of Serbian refugees I presume you know also how many nonserbs fleed that area when Serbian troops took it?Can you show your releshionsip with those Serbian troops during those 4-5 years you where station there. I believe this is not only video you did during 5 years.
Actually the Serbian troops were the ones that we had far the most confrontations with. They did not like us being in the area. That being said we had a good professional relationship with a lot of both Serbian at Croat soldiers. The non Serbs that lived in the area was in general ok. The ones we knew of we did some extra paroles to make sure they where ok. There was a few incidents where we had to step in to help Mostly they where very poor so we also helped with extra food and clothes
from my uncle who was a member of the Croatian army in this area, I heard that the Serbs were beaten by heavy artillery positions Danish UNPROFOR to halt further progression of the Croatian military operation in Bosnia counted toward to the center of Banja Luka!! This would dream of creating a Greater Serbia was completely collapsed, what they are today, even though the Serb controlled part of Bosnia center.
they started to kill us openly on the streets and used all military might of Yugoslavia to attack us, first in Slovenia, then Croatia, and finally BiH, what could we do, watch them until they kill us all?
Political or racist comments will be deleted..... War is terrible and people do terrible things to each other. I the war in Bosnia and Croatia i was witness to all parties doing wrong things. Let us learn form this instead and learn future generations not to make war
After 2 years there it got to be our war. Trying the best we could protecting the civilians. But unfortunately we did not have the power to do more. This should have been a NATO mission.
@@CarstenDittrich2014 It's not ignorant remark. He just didn't explained it well. All UN soldiers were ordered to not get involved and only to help civilians who came to them. They were not ordered that by Croatian army. Those orders came from UN and their respected countries. So shooting "warning shots" towards Croatian army during the battle is a big NO NO.
@safet definitely not. I can only speak for the Danish UN force. From my perspective we made a lot of difference for the civilians in our area. They had a hard time. I am just sorry we did not have more soldiers and power so we could do more. I was in a recon unit and can honestly say that it is not fun chasing T54 tanks with only anti tank rockets. Tying to save UN soldiers and civilians from getting attacked
@@vinceredk As I guess, you used to be a peacekeeper in Serbian Krajina and you have a lot of archive pictures. Could you tell me if you have any photos or videos with Army of the Serbian Krajina soldiers? I am a Historian from the Institue for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow. Best regards!
Croats army had the help from all over the world and they were stop right at the Sava river from the Army of Republica Srpska. They dream of running over the Serbs stoped right there.
Wow this is rare thing i watched almost every video of operation storm from youtube. But i never saw operation storm from perspective of UN soldiers. You clearly said that political or racist comments will be deleted i will respect that so i will ask you philosophical question. Do you think if you are choose to be neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the aggressor?
We never choose side, we tried to be neutral the best we could, sometimes it was hard when someone from either parts of Ex. Yogo pointed their weapons in my face... or even shoot at us. But what do you know about that ?
Morten Christiansen What I know is that Croats have a right to have their national identity. I know that to Scandinavians and other Western Europeans we are a bunch of same little unimportant Slavs but it's a little different down here. The war has passed into history, life is quiet now and we go on with our daily lives as the rest as anyone in Europe. We are trying to forget the horrors and just move on.
From Danish UN perspective definitely neutral. And always on the civilian side. But very hard not to have the power to intervene some times. Especially in Biha’c refugee camp where it was tempting to take active part in the war
Ante I know what you mean. This should have been a NATO mission. But the UN Danish soldiers on the ground did more than you think. I wish we have had more power to do more.
Was there on team 6 D-coy as Papa on ND26 close to Bobovac. Lucky to be safe home when this happend, But i still got some ghosts that hunt me sometimes from that time. Sender et kram til Guldhammer Thisgaard og de andre seje spejdere der hjalp os når det brændte på.
Are you mad kid? When I was in Croatia our job was to stop weapons moving into the zone of seperation between them and Serbia, and many other things, we took great risk and some of our friends paid the ultimate price to help Ex. Yogo stop killing each others, get it ? So calm down and respect that we tried to help in a sad war after Tito stopped ruling...
Ok there you go, you were not there... Dont hate serbs because of the past, or go back to WW2 and find out who worked with Germany and you will get another picture... Sad your father fought in the war because all war is just fucked up. Think about UN stopped Milo in creating his Great Serbia, and maybe saved your parents life and you could be born because of UN helping out... By the way I was working close to Sunja / Bobovac if you know where that is.
It was the United Nations not only EU that went inside to try and help, and it is always a hard task to help in a country that is trying to kill each others... You can always look back and find things that could have been handled better for sure, that could have stopped the Srebrenica killings but they had their orders at that time and some of the UN soldiers took their own life because of what happend there, just imagine being a Dutch soldier and ordered to let the Serbs in the area and later on find out what happend = the killing of +8000 humans.
Hi Morten. Appreciate your service in Croatia. Can you please tell me if Croatian soldiers used UN as a shield, as the description of the video suggests?
The danes are some tough ladz..funny seeing a video camera on all the time, like we see in modern wars, back in 1990/95 video camera's would have been a rare thing and bloody expensive so not every soldier if many would of had one, its almost like the UN top brace had a inkling that some shit would go down, and give one out as to record some sort of pull,it,cle dirt or future insurance...
Thats what happens when you let Croat troops use UN camp as reinforcement route and shield then with UN bodies, shit attract flies (shelling to soft targets).
Ante you speak as a person that was not there. From the Danish UN Side we did only take side and protect the civilians from the soldiers. They had a hard time. @ Markus when 100.000 soldiers is coming you do not “let” anyone do anything. The few soldiers on the posts did not have a chance. And they had a very hard time as prisoners Our small HQ camp in Dubica was defended and not turned over to the any of the parties even under attack
@@vinceredkto be fair,.... its a pretty fair comment ...them dannish Un soldiers, should never have been used like that.....if im understanding what marcus's is saying!..
I was in the Operation Storm in Petrinja. I'm sorry for the Danish soldiers, but make no mistake about it, Croats would do it all over again if they had to.
no doubt my boy !!!
Operation Storm is a perfect example of a blitzkrieg. If 4 years prior, Vukovar was Croatia's own Thermopylae battle, Orija was the equivalent of the Battle of Palataea.
KVD11MV4 not really, gen. Stipetić already denied that multiple times because there was a lot of conspiracy theorie claims and still are from the Serbian side. The only thing bought from the US were drone pictures of the area, which were later put to good use.
Another thing that the US provided was the attack on Udbina airstrip, after what they believed was I think an attack on Sarajevo, rendering the planes there useless, which were a thorn in Croatian side. Operation Storm was won in central Bosnia and on Dinara. The operations leading up to it, are the reason for the quick success of Operation Storm. It was the decision of Croats to get heavy guns on Dinara and tanks there to have both a dominant position and an element of surprise. It's also noticeable that Kordun held out for a longer period of time, because they were dug in and Croats made tactical mistakes, which after reorganising the attack that followed the old plan that was practised, again, Croatian doing.
UN troops had a task to ensure peace in so named "serbian krajina" which was Croatian territory. Under UN (including danish troops) "protection" during 4 years in "krajina" Serbs killed over 1.000 civilians and continued constant artillery attacks on free parts of Croatia. After 4 years Croatians said : ok enough is enough. By the way Mr. Guldhammer you can not put a blame on Croatian forces for Dvor massacre.This is just not fair. There are witnesses claiming that was a crime made by serbian troops during their withdrawal. One more thing is important for you to know: 24 hours before operation Storm all foreign countries which had a soldiers as part of UN in occupied parts of Croatia received warning in order to remove their soldiers from dangerous points. Some countries did it.
Serbs citizens of Croatia from 15 st.
@@savasavanovicjunior3279 hhahahah you are idiot big one you came in Croatia in 1918 after ww1 learn your history not serbian lies
No blame from us. As recon we had a very good idea what was going on. Unfortunately we did not have the power to do more
@ Mr. Guldhammer. As Croatian vet I can say that UN forces failed but I am not blaming You. I understand that You just followed Your orders just as I followed mine. Reasons why UN and NATO allowed Serbs to commit serious war crimes are political. As citizen of Croatia which is now member of NATO and EU (they were our goals from beginning) I can only say to You thanks for Your service in my country without sarcasm . I really mean it. Don't forget that war always begin when first side think that is stronger than other side. We were other side. All the best to You.
To date, it is not clear whether it was Serbian, Croatian or autonomous soldiers who were behind the massacre in Dvor. The Danish UN company commander in Dvor felt let down by the Un system for not intervening.
He did not have the capacity to intervene without having his soldiers annihilated.
My own assessment is that I would think that it was autonomous soldiers who did it.
In those days there were quite a few autonomous soldiers from both sides who committed some horrific assaults.
I our Camp we were locked form continuous bombardments and tank attack and only had capacity to protect the camp
Thanks for sharing this footage. Danish people are always cool. Gruss aus deutschland
Since you where there and saw everything can you please publish videos what happened before operation storm in all those areas? What happened with all nonserbs who lived on that area and what did you as UN did to prevent that.Since you know exakt number of Serbian refugees I presume you know also how many nonserbs fleed that area when Serbian troops took it?Can you show your releshionsip with those Serbian troops during those 4-5 years you where station there. I believe this is not only video you did during 5 years.
Actually the Serbian troops were the ones that we had far the most confrontations with. They did not like us being in the area. That being said we had a good professional relationship with a lot of both Serbian at Croat soldiers. The non Serbs that lived in the area was in general ok. The ones we knew of we did some extra paroles to make sure they where ok. There was a few incidents where we had to step in to help
Mostly they where very poor so we also helped with extra food and clothes
from my uncle who was a member of the Croatian army in this area, I heard that the Serbs were beaten by heavy artillery positions Danish UNPROFOR to halt further progression of the Croatian military operation in Bosnia counted toward to the center of Banja Luka!! This would dream of creating a Greater Serbia was completely collapsed, what they are today, even though the Serb controlled part of Bosnia center.
This war was very Crazy
they started to kill us openly on the streets and used all military might of Yugoslavia to attack us, first in Slovenia, then Croatia, and finally BiH, what could we do, watch them until they kill us all?
I'm sorry but UN had lost credibility forever after Srebrenica genocide.
Agree this should have been a NATO mission
would love some subtitles for this
tackar danska soldater under sommaren 95 när ni kom som understöd vid en liten insedent , BRA JOBBAT Danska soldater / svensk soldat - 95
Flot video.
Hvad er det for noget udstyr du har købt til at overspille..
har flere bånd der gerne skulle den vej..
Mvh Kim "Botra"
tak
Political or racist comments will be deleted..... War is terrible and people do terrible things to each other.
I the war in Bosnia and Croatia i was witness to all parties doing wrong things.
Let us learn form this instead and learn future generations not to make war
After 2 years there it got to be our war. Trying the best we could protecting the civilians. But unfortunately we did not have the power to do more. This should have been a NATO mission.
@@vinceredk and it should be 4 years earlier when they attacked Slovenia, Croatia and BiH
Blue helmets had been warned in advance to get out of the way. Those who did not comply had to suffer the consequences.
Wow, what an ignorant remark
@@CarstenDittrich2014 It's not ignorant remark. He just didn't explained it well. All UN soldiers were ordered to not get involved and only to help civilians who came to them. They were not ordered that by Croatian army. Those orders came from UN and their respected countries. So shooting "warning shots" towards Croatian army during the battle is a big NO NO.
@safet definitely not. I can only speak for the Danish UN force. From my perspective we made a lot of difference for the civilians in our area. They had a hard time. I am just sorry we did not have more soldiers and power so we could do more. I was in a recon unit and can honestly say that it is not fun chasing T54 tanks with only anti tank rockets. Tying to save UN soldiers and civilians from getting attacked
@@vinceredk Why is not fun chasing T54 tanks with only anti tank rockets? We Croats had to do it lot of times, especially in Vukovar.
Thank you for this video.
Hi lad! Are you here? I have one question. Thank!
TurboSerb yes off course what is your question
@@vinceredk As I guess, you used to be a peacekeeper in Serbian Krajina and you have a lot of archive pictures. Could you tell me if you have any photos or videos with Army of the Serbian Krajina soldiers?
I am a Historian from the Institue for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow.
Best regards!
TurboSerb yes I have a lot. I was In a recon group nato and un and therefore i have a lot of pictures and videos from that time
@@vinceredk How can I contact with you? Could you please give me your email, if possible?
I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE DEFENCELESS HORSES.I ONCE LIVED ON A RANCH,AND HORSES ARE AS LOYAL AS DOGS OR CATS.
Croats army had the help from all over the world and they were stop right at the Sava river from the Army of Republica Srpska. They dream of running over the Serbs stoped right there.
dead horse on 14:20,real horror!
Croat Team ✌️
dage og mennesker som aldrig glemmes.
Fantastisk at gense.... Var dernede i 92
var SPJ i B-COY på det her Hold
Wow this is rare thing i watched almost every video of operation storm from youtube. But i never saw operation storm from perspective of UN soldiers.
You clearly said that political or racist comments will be deleted i will respect that so i will ask you philosophical question.
Do you think if you are choose to be neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the aggressor?
+Ronhillcro agressor '''''????? what agressor.... croatian forces in action to freee own country
We never choose side, we tried to be neutral the best we could, sometimes it was hard when someone from either parts of Ex. Yogo pointed their weapons in my face... or even shoot at us. But what do you know about that ?
Morten Christiansen What I know is that Croats have a right to have their national identity. I know that to Scandinavians and other Western Europeans we are a bunch of same little unimportant Slavs but it's a little different down here. The war has passed into history, life is quiet now and we go on with our daily lives as the rest as anyone in Europe. We are trying to forget the horrors and just move on.
From Danish UN perspective definitely neutral. And always on the civilian side. But very hard not to have the power to intervene some times. Especially in Biha’c refugee camp where it was tempting to take active part in the war
Ante I know what you mean. This should have been a NATO mission. But the UN Danish soldiers on the ground did more than you think. I wish we have had more power to do more.
Was there on team 6 D-coy as Papa on ND26 close to Bobovac.
Lucky to be safe home when this happend,
But i still got some ghosts that hunt me sometimes from that time.
Sender et kram til Guldhammer Thisgaard og de andre seje spejdere der hjalp os når det brændte på.
Are you mad kid? When I was in Croatia our job was to stop weapons moving into the zone of seperation between them and Serbia, and many other things, we took great risk and some of our friends paid the ultimate price to help Ex. Yogo stop killing each others, get it ? So calm down and respect that we tried to help in a sad war after Tito stopped ruling...
Ok there you go, you were not there... Dont hate serbs because of the past, or go back to WW2 and find out who worked with Germany and you will get another picture... Sad your father fought in the war because all war is just fucked up. Think about UN stopped Milo in creating his Great Serbia, and maybe saved your parents life and you could be born because of UN helping out... By the way I was working close to Sunja / Bobovac if you know where that is.
It was the United Nations not only EU that went inside to try and help, and it is always a hard task to help in a country that is trying to kill each others... You can always look back and find things that could have been handled better for sure, that could have stopped the Srebrenica killings but they had their orders at that time and some of the UN soldiers took their own life because of what happend there, just imagine being a Dutch soldier and ordered to let the Serbs in the area and later on find out what happend = the killing of +8000 humans.
Hi Morten. Appreciate your service in Croatia. Can you please tell me if Croatian soldiers used UN as a shield, as the description of the video suggests?
Jeg kan ikke forstår denne dialekten
The danes are some tough ladz..funny seeing a video camera on all the time, like we see in modern wars, back in 1990/95 video camera's would have been a rare thing and bloody expensive so not every soldier if many would of had one, its almost like the UN top brace had a inkling that some shit would go down, and give one out as to record some sort of pull,it,cle dirt or future insurance...
Respekt fra D-coy hold 1
Thats what happens when you let Croat troops use UN camp as reinforcement route and shield then with UN bodies, shit attract flies (shelling to soft targets).
To my knowledge that commander was sentenced in court for this. A lot of bad things happened that day under that commander
Ante you speak as a person that was not there. From the Danish UN Side we did only take side and protect the civilians from the soldiers. They had a hard time.
@ Markus when 100.000 soldiers is coming you do not “let” anyone do anything. The few soldiers on the posts did not have a chance. And they had a very hard time as prisoners
Our small HQ camp in Dubica was defended and not turned over to the any of the parties even under attack
@@vinceredkto be fair,.... its a pretty fair comment ...them dannish Un soldiers, should never have been used like that.....if im understanding what marcus's is saying!..