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Neither Croatia nor Yugoslavia ever formally declared war on each other. [304] Unlike the Serbian position that the conflict need not be declared as it was a civil war, [298] the Croatian motivation for not declaring war was that Tuđman believed that Croatia could not confront the JNA directly and did everything to avoid an all-out war. [305]
Croats and Bosniaks blamed each other for the defeats against the VRS. [103] The Bosnian government suspected that a Croat-Serb cease-fire was brokered, [104] while the Croats objected that the ARBiH was not helping them in Croat-majority areas. [105] By late 1992, Herzeg-Bosnia lost a significant part of its territory to VRS.
The Makarska massacre (Croatian: Pokolj u Makarskoj) was the mass murder of Croat civilians by Chetnik forces, led by Petar Baćović, from 28 August until early-September 1942, across several villages in the Dalmatian Hinterland of southern Croatia, around the town of Makarska. [1]
24sata (Croatia) (in Croatian). "Yugoslavia: further reports of torture and deliberate and arbitrary killings in war zones". Amnesty International. March 1992. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06 "The Prosecutor of the Tribunal Against Milan Babić - Indictment" (PDF). International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 6 November 2003.
The siege of Mostar was fought during the Bosnian War first in 1992 and then again later in 1993 to 1994. Initially lasting between April 1992 and June 1992, it involved the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) fighting against the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence from ...
Each plan was scheduled to take between four and five days. [74] The forces that the HV allocated to attack the RSK were organised into five army corps: Split, Gospić, Karlovac, Zagreb and Bjelovar Corps. [76] A sixth zone was assigned to the Croatian special police inside the Split Corps AOR, [77] near the boundary with the Gospić Corps. [78]
The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany [8] [9] and Fascist Italy.It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers.
The JNA intervention was the culmination of its involvement in the confiscation of weapons from Croatia's Territorial Defence, and in the Croatian Serb revolt that had begun in August 1990. From that time, the JNA had been frequently deployed to form a buffer zone between the Croatian Serb guerrillas and the ZNG or the Croatian police. In ...