HERO TEPIĆ PAID WITH HIS LIFE TO KEEP HIS WORD AND SAVE HIS PEOPLE

BANJA LUKA, SEPTEMBER 29 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska Prime Minister Savo Minić said that hero Milan Tepić paid with his life to keep his word and protect his people.

"'People give their word only once - it either stands or is broken.' Hero Milan Tepić paid with his life to keep his word and protect his people. Today, 35 years after his death, we can only bow with deep respect before Major Tepić and 19-year-old Stojadin Mirković. Eternal glory to them," Minić wrote on X. According to him, it is now up to us to preserve the peace and freedom that the bravest left to us as a solemn legacy. Major Milan Tepić was killed on this day in 1991, when, during fighting with Croatian paramilitary units, he blew up a Yugoslav People's Army /JNA/ barracks in Bjelovar rather than surrender an ammunition depot to the enemy. For this act, Tepić was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia and proclaimed a national hero.