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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]
HV forces killed 22 Serb civilians during Operation Flash. [7] Zagreb rocket attacks: 2-3 May 1995 Zagreb: 7 killed, 214 wounded Republic of Serbian Krajina forces used multiple rocket launchers, fitted with cluster munitions, to strike civilian-populated areas of Zagreb on the 2 and 3 May 1995, in retaliation for the HV offensive Operation Flash.
Hundreds of homes were destroyed and between 141 and 160 Croat civilians were killed. [3] [4] Among those killed included three Catholic Priests, who were skinned alive before being killed. [5] Baćović's Chetniks continued their advance to the Makarska coast into September 1942, razing a total of 17 Croat villages and killing 900 Croats. [6 ...
A total of 417 were killed in all military operations around Dubrovnik by the end of October 1992. [108] The JNA suffered 165 deaths. [109] Approximately 15,000 refugees from Konavle and other areas around Dubrovnik fled to the city, and about 16,000 refugees were evacuated by sea from Dubrovnik to other parts of Croatia. [51]
Croats and Bosniaks blamed each other for the defeats against the VRS. [102] The Bosnian government suspected that a Croat-Serb cease-fire was brokered, [103] while the Croats objected that the ARBiH was not helping them in Croat-majority areas. [104] By late 1992, Herzeg-Bosnia lost a significant part of its territory to VRS.
The JNA's strategic offensive plan in Croatia, 1991. The plan was abandoned after the Battle of Vukovar exhausted the JNA's ability to prosecute the war further into Croatia. At the start of the war in Slovenia, the army still saw itself as the defender of a federal, communist Yugoslavia, rather than an instrument of Serbian nationalism.
Unlike the other fronts, Croats participating in World War I, were most motivated to fight on the Italian front, as Treaty of London (which brought Italy into World War I), promised large chunks of Croatian littoral to Italy. [24] Secondly, unlike the other fronts, on Italian front Croats did not have to fight their "slavic brothers". [24]
Seal of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia. The following is an incomplete list of wars fought by Croatia, by Croatian people or regular armies during periods when independent Croatian states existed, from the Early Middle Ages to the present day.