Veljko Radenović (17 May 1955 – 29 September 2012) was a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

n police lieutenant colonel, popularly known as "General" for his courage and capability. During the

war in Kosovo The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...

he was commander of a special police unit from

Prizren ) , settlement_type = Municipality and city , image_skyline = Prizren Collage.jpg , imagesize = 290px , image_caption = View of Prizren , image_alt = View of Prizren , image_flag ...

until the withdrawal of the

Yugoslav Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska a ...

from

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

in June 1999.

Biography

In the war he led his unit in clashes with the

Kosovo Liberation Army The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA; , UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the ...

. His unit participated in the 1998

Attack on Orahovac The Attack on Orahovac was a 3-day long clash Between 17 and 20 July 1998 and was fought between the forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the FR Yugoslavia. The KLA surrounded Serb villages intending to assert authority for the Kos ...

where they successfully defended the town. The

blockaded the local Serbian population for several days. Radenović led his unit in the attack that ended the siege.

In popular culture

In his honor Gavrilo Kujundžić wrote the song "Đenerale, đenerale" originally performed by

Ivana Žigon Ivana ( sr, Ивана) is a feminine given name of Slavic languages, Slavic origin that is also popular in southern Ireland, France, French-speaking Canada, the Mediterranean and Latin America. It is the feminine form of the name Ivan (name), Iva ...

and Kosovski Božuri.

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* 1955 births 2012 deaths Military personnel from Peja Kosovo Serbs Serbian generals Serbian military personnel of the Kosovo War Serbia and Montenegro military personnel {{Serbia-mil-bio-stub