Milorad Dodik (BETAPHOTO/HINA/FENA/Amer Kajmovic/MO)
A ceremony was held in Boljanic near Doboj on Oct. 3 on the occasion of 80 years since the “Halyard – Air Bridge” operation in World War II, in which members of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland saved 500 Allied pilots who have been shot down by German anti-aircraft guns over Yugoslavia.
Wreaths were laid at the memorial by Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik, Minister for Labor and Protection of Veterans and the Disabled Danijel Egic, an envoy of the Serbian president, Djordje Todorov, the deputy defense minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aleksandar Goganovic, and the representatives of the Halyard Foundation, of the Third Infantry (RS) Regiment of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the City of Doboj.
Dodik said during his address that it was disgraceful that representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina were not attending the ceremony and that Ambassador Michael Murphy “should be ashamed.” “It is incomprehensible that such a power demonstrates its impotence in this way, or its arrogance,” Dodik stated.
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