The story of "Slovenian Rambo" and action footage of the battle for the border crossing of Rozna Dolina in Slovenia on the 28th of June 1991.

Among the citizens in Rožna Dolina, the most famous was Drago Kosmač.

He took advantage of the surprise and confusion among YPA soldiers, stormed the Militia premises at the border crossing, where the YPA unit command was located, captured and disarmed the unit commanders and federal militiamen.
When the shooting stopped, he went to the crossroads with a captured YPA member, who had a white flag. Here they helped to surrender the crew of the tank, which was the only one still working.
Kosmač then gathered the captured soldiers at the crossroads and took them 100 meters away from the crossroads, where he ordered them to lie down.

A few citizens came to the intersection, helping the wounded soldiers, when the Territorials started firing at the intersection again. After the citizens shouted that the conflict was over and that the soldiers had already surrendered, the territorials realized their mistake and stopped firing and headed for the crossroads.
At that time, they also brought two ambulances, rescuers took care of the wounded and took them to the Šempeter Hospital near Gorica.
Kosmač also gathered senior members of the Yugoslav People's Army from the command building and took them to other captured soldiers. Citizens, armed with the weapons of the soldiers, took the captured YPA soldiers and federal militiamen in the yard of a workshop from which they were transported by bus to a nearby town.

Three Yugoslav soldiers fell in the conflict, 16 YPA soldiers and 6 civilians were wounded.

Among the blunders/failures of the Territorial Defence are:

-Called on the YPA unit to surrender before the attack. Due to the presence of citizens at the time of the attack, defence commander was accused of inhumane treatment.
-Cleared the streets of protesters and civilians, instead they informed noone and stayed in a factory nearby.
-A serious incident occurred after the surrender of soldiers, when members of Lisjak's group shot at a crossroads where civilians and the wounded were at the time.

Video Chapters:
00:00 TV segment | Civilian Drago Kosmac saving lifes on both sides
02:56 Raw Battle Footage
06:15 Other Angle Of Drago Kosmac with Yugoslav soldiers helping to surrender tank crew
06:50 Territorials shoot at surrendered injured soldiers and civilians
08:10 First Territorial militia soldier arrives at the scene
08:48 Crossroads chaos after surrender

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#Slovenia #SlovenianWarOfIndependence #TenDayWar #DeathOfYugoslavia #HistoryDocumentary #WarDocumentary #CombatFootage #YugoWar #YugoslavWars

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