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More than 1,900 people were killed or injured by land mines in Croatia since the beginning of the war, including more than 500 killed or injured by mines after the end of the war. [351] Between 1998 and 2005, Croatia spent €214 million on various mine action programs. [352] As of 2009, all remaining minefields are clearly marked. [353]
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent ...
Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia on a map of all camps in Yugoslavia in World War II.. The Holocaust saw the genocide of Jews, Serbs and Romani within the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), a fascist puppet state that existed during World War II, led by the Ustaše regime, which ruled an occupied area of Yugoslavia including most of ...
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.
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.
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.
In Croatia, the 1986 exhibition is claimed as Serbian premeditation to stir up war in Croatia which began in 1991, thereby dismissing its complex causes. [257] Similar but more inflammatory exhibitions were shown in JNA barracks during the early 1990s. [ 258 ]
Croatia's far-right often advocates the false theory that Jasenovac was a "labour camp" where mass murder did not take place. [11] Some rights activists say that distortion of World War II crimes exist in Croatia and it was especially prevalent during the 1990s war when anti-Serb sentiment was high. [12]