PRUŽANjE USLUGA OD STRANE UDRUŽENjA RATNIH I MIRNODOPSKIH VOJNIH INVALIDA U REPUBLICI SRBIJI

Abstract

In the paper, the author points to the fact that in the Republic of Serbia there is a large number of war invalids, which is a consequence of the war conflicts that took place in the areas where we live now. That is why organized state care is needed for fighters who, as participants in numerous defensive wars, remained permanently disabled, with a lower or higher degree of incapacity. Hence, in Serbia, there has been a disability fund for exhausted and crippled soldiers for 160 years, which was also enacted during the reign of Prince Mihailo Obrenović, the so-called "Fund for Military Invalids". Unfortunately, even after gaining independence at the Berlin Congress in 1878, the territory of the Republic of Serbia was the scene of numerous wars, both in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the last century (20th century), starting from the Balkan Wars, through the First and Second World Wars, the wars in theterritories of the former Yugoslav states, and until the NATO bombing in 1999, the Serbian people experienced a biological disaster. The consequences are immeasurable - several million dead and as many or even more wounded. That is why the state of Serbia assumed the obligation to take care of the families of fallen soldiers and the status of military invalids, by providing a large number of services, the corpus of which, from one period to another, was always increasing. Also, there is a large number of peacetime military invalids that the state, through its organs, must take care of. This is why the protection of veterans and the disabled and the provision of services in this area have been developed and harmonized with the real situation of the disabled, their needs and the economic possibilities of the Republic of Serbia. Associations of war and peacetime disabled soldiers of all levels play a key role in this.