29.09.2020.
Marking the 29th death anniversary of national hero Milan Tepić
On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the death of national hero Milan Tepić, the delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces laid a wreath today and paid homage at the monument to national hero Tepić in the street in Belgrade which bears the same name.
Wreaths were also laid by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Zoran Antić, who led the ceremony, family members of the national hero and associations and citizens devoted to nurturing the traditions of Serbian liberation wars. Milan Tepić was born in a village of Komlenac near Kozarska Dubica in 1957. On this date in 1991 he died in Bedenik near Nova Rača, not wanting to surrender to the enemy weapons that were to be used to kill his soldiers. Major Milan Tepić blew up the weapons depot and himself.
On 19 November 1991, the Presidency of SFRY posthumously decorated Major Milan Tepić with the Medal of People’s Hero of Yugoslavia for “an extraordinary feat in the fight against the enemies during their attack on the barracks of the Yugoslav National Army in Bjelovar” and proclaimed him a national hero of Yugoslavia.