Commenting on what he said are politically motivated indictments issued in Belgrade against Croatia's wartime officers and pilots, Medved said in Sunja that the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague delivered a clear ruling and assessment that Operation Storm was a legitimate operation that Croatia carried out to liberate areas occupied by Serb rebels supported by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
Serbia has not found enough strength to deal with its past and to admit that it launched the aggression on Croatia and later on Bosnia and Herzegovina and on Kosovo, he said.
"Croatia waged a just, defence and liberating Homeland War."
Medved said that he was in permanent contact with the four pilots accused by Belgrade according to Serbian media that have reported about the indictment.
Croatia has not yet received any official information about that process and information about the indictments is only available in pro-regime media outlets in Serbia.
Medved said that Serbia had no concrete evidence against Croatia's pilots and Belgrade is exploiting the topic of the indictments to divert attention from its problems in connection with Kosovo.
He said that tabloid media close to Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić are the only source circulating information about Belgrade's plan to press war crimes charges against Croatian Admiral Davor Domazet Lošo, Brigadier Ilija Maričić and General Pavao Miljavac.
"We will protect all Croatia's general, defenders and officers," said Medved.
The four pilots of Croatia's Armed Forces whom Serbia is accusing of issuing orders to shell a refugee column on 7 and 8 August 1995 are Vladimir Mikec (67), Zdenko Radulj (69), Željko Jelenić (69) and Danijel Borović (64).
The indictment alleges that during the shelling of the retreating Serbs, 13 victims including six children were killed and 24 persons were wounded near Bosanski Petrovac and Bosanski Novi, northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Text: Hina