Central celebration 27. anniversary of the military operation Maslenica was held in Zadar on Monday, 20. January 2020. The. In memory of these historic days, Zadar on the streets of the morning playing reveille, and at the Central Cross in the Zadar City Cemetery delegation laid wreaths and lit candles in honor of the fallen Croatian soldiers in Operation Maslenica, which is one of the first great liberation operations of the Croatian Army and police, and in which the only 72 hours released almost a hundred square kilometers of previously occupied Croatian territory.