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General Dragoljub Ojdanic was buried with honors today in his hometown of Ravni, near Uzice.
Army General, former Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Army and Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragoljub Ojdanic passed away on 6 September and was buried today in the Ojdanic family cemetery.
Relatives, friends, comrades in arms came to bid farewell to the general’s last break, Belgrade media reported.
Dragoljub Ojdanić was born in this town in 1941, completed the non-commissioned officer school in Sarajevo in 1958 and the Military Academy in 1964. He served in Gjakova, Sarajevo, Prizren, Pristina, and in 1992 he was promoted to the rank of Major General and appointed Commander of the Corps. by Uzice.
From 1994 to 1996 he was commander of the First Army and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Army. He served in this role until April 2000, when he was appointed Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Arpila was handed over from Serbia to the Hague Court in 2002, where he was sentenced in 2009 to 15 years in prison for alleged crimes against Kosovo Albanians. He returned to Serbia in 2013, after 11 and a half years in prison.
Ojdanic later said that he had not committed any crime, that he had a clear conscience and that he was sleeping peacefully. After returning from prison in Scheveningen, General Ojdanić was greeted at the Belgrade airport by the people of Užice and Zlatibor, friends and fans who also brought a trumpet orchestra to the reception.
In Scheveningen prison, the general wrote his biography, under the title “From the village of Ravni to The Hague.”
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