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Stjepan Mesić on Belgrade's intentions in the war In August 1990, an unrecognized mono-ethnic referendum was held in regions with a substantial Serb population which would later become known as the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) (bordering western Bosnia and Herzegovina) on the question of Serb "sovereignty and autonomy" in Croatia. This was an attempt to counter changes made to the ...
1 August 1991-May 1992. Dalj. 135. SAO Krajina forces, TO units and Serbian Volunteer Guard members massacre Croatian police and ZNG POWs, Croat and Hungarian civilians. Sarvaš massacre. 2 August 1991. Sarvaš. 9. Croatian police and ZNG forces massacre 9 Serb civilians after attacking the village.
The siege of Dubrovnik ( Serbo-Croatian: opsada Dubrovnika, опсада Дубровника) was a military engagement fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Croatian forces defending the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings during the Croatian War of Independence. The JNA started its advance on 1 October 1991, and by late ...
879 killed, 770 wounded. 1,131 civilians killed, 550 civilians missing [3] The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous ...
Operation Storm ( Serbo-Croatian: Operacija Oluja / Операција Олуја) was the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and a major factor in the outcome of the Bosnian War. It was a decisive victory for the Croatian Army (HV), which attacked across a 630-kilometre (390 mi) front against the self-declared proto-state ...
Target. Croats. Attack type. Mass murder, ethnic cleansing. Deaths. 44-45 [1] [2] Perpetrators. Serb rebels, Scorpions paramilitaries. The Berak killings was the mass murder of Croat civilians by Serb rebels and paramilitaries from September until December 1991, in the village of Berak, near Vukovar, during the Croatian War of Independence .
The official figure of war related deaths during World War II in Yugoslavia and the immediate post-war period, provided by the Yugoslav government in 1946, was 1,706,000 deaths. This number was proven to be exaggerated in later studies, particularly by statistician Bogoljub Kočović, who in 1985 estimated the actual war losses of the pre-war ...
The Zagreb rocket attacks were two rocket attacks conducted by the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that used multiple rocket launchers to strike the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence. The attack killed seven [2] [3] and wounded over 200 Croatian and foreign civilians and was carried out on 2 May and 3 ...