DODIK: CORRIDOR 92 - RSA FEAT HISTORY WILL REMEMBER AS BATTLE FOR LIFE

BANJA LUKA, JUNE 20 /SRNA/ – The magnificent Operation Corridor 92 was and remains the purest, brightest, and most important victory of the Republika Srpska Army /RSA/ during the Defensive-Patriotic War, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik stressed.

“We all remember the spring and summer of 1992, a time of severe hardship. The western part of Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina was cut off from Serbia, while the people faced shortages of food, medicine, and basic necessities. We were trapped in the darkness of isolation, left without medicine, bread, oxygen, and without the right to life.

At that moment, when survival itself seemed to be in question, Serb soldiers started the feat the history will remember as a battle for life,” Dodik told SRNA on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Posavina Corridor breakthrough, noting that Duga Njiva was the place where the fate of the Serb people was decided more than three decades ago.

Recalling that Operation Corridor 92 was carried out between June 14 and June 28, 1992, in the Posavina region by units of the First Krajina Corps, the East Bosnia Corps, and the Republika Srpska Krajina police under the command of General Momir Talić, Dodik stressed that the direct trigger for the military operation, which was the brightest and most humane wartime achievement of the RSA, was the death of 12 newborn babies in the Banja Luka maternity hospital due to a lack of oxygen.

He said that from the darkness of misunderstanding and global indifference emerged one of the deepest Serb people’s wounds, when, due to inhumane blockade imposed by global powers, twelve newborn lives were lost before they had the chance to truly begin.

“Our little angels died because they were denied the right to breathe, while the global powers turned their heads away. The cries of our mothers changed everything. At that moment, the Serb soldier knew there was no turning back and that he had to fight for the very survival of our children. There was no dilemma, because the choice was between breaking through the corridor and a death sentence for our loved ones,” Dodik said.

He stressed that the decisive battle was entered with determination and without calculation, driven by a single goal – to bring freedom and salvation to the people and future generations, and to ensure that no child’s life would ever again depend on decisions made by some distant inhuman persons at the table.

Dodik emphasized that the Corridor breakthrough was not merely a military victory, but a victory of life over death and hope over despair, the route through which medicine, food, and hope reached hundreds of thousands of people.

“It was not a battle of conquest, nor an assault driven by hatred, but a purely humanitarian struggle for air and survival for one’s people and freedom. It was the road of life through which salvation finally arrived. Many paid for that salvation with the most precious thing they had, their lives and body parts. Their courage, determination, and willingness to lay down their lives for their people remain permanently inscribed in the history of Republika Srpska,” Dodik stressed, noting that death toll of Operation Corridor 92 was 877 RSA members, 15 Srpska MoI members and 17 Republika Srpska Krajina MoI members.

Their sacrifice, Dodik says, obliges future generations never to forget the price paid for the defence of Republika Srpska.

“Let Duga Njiva forever remain a place of unity, respect, and gratitude, where we remember the heroes who proved through their deeds that no obstacle can stop a people determined to defend freedom and the right to life. Eternal glory and thanks to all fallen RSA soldiers, and lasting strength to Republika Srpska to preserve the memory of their heroic deeds,” Dodik emphasized.

He added that the Serb people and Republika Srpska must continue to protect their Corridor no longer with tanks and rifles, but through national policy, wisdom, unity, and dignity.

“May the sacrifice of our small yet great angels from the Banja Luka maternity hospital and of our Serb heroes remain an eternal guide to what it means to love one’s homeland, Republika Srpska. Its institutions will continue to care for every individual and every family, because people are the most valuable asset any country possesses,” Dodik concluded.