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The Croatian War of Independence [I] was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia — which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) — and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending ...
The Kninjas (Serbian: Книнџе / Knindže), also known as the Red Berets, was a Serb paramilitary unit and a volunteer militia supporting the Army of Serb Krajina during the Croatian War of Independence. It was based in Knin, the capital of breakaway SAO Krajina that became the Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK).
In 2012, the Croatian journal Magazine for Military History (Vojna Povijest) published flight logs of Croatian fighter planes from 3 August to 8 August 1995. It described the destruction of military vehicles on 7 August and 8 August in the area near Bosanski Petrovac and Svodna, respectively. [ 1 ]
Clinton "called on Mr. Bush to seek United Nations authorization of selective bombing of Serbian targets in Bosnia" and delivered strong rhetoric on the Bosnian crisis. [13] In early August, in response to Congressional debate, Clinton declared himself in favor "of lifting the arms embargo on the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia and Croatia ...
Third Croatian-Bulgarian War: Kingdom of Croatia: First Bulgarian Empire: Victory: c. 1040–1185 Byzantine–Norman wars: Kingdom of France Kingdom of Sicily Lombard duchies Papal States. Kingdom of Croatia Raška and Duklja. Byzantine Empire Republic of Venice Holy Roman Empire: Victory: 1091–1102 War of the Croatian Succession: Kingdom of ...
Yugoslav Albanians joined the Croatian Army in the war. There is a veterans organization (Croatian: Udruga Albanaca branitelja Hrvatske u Domovinskom ratu) of these. It is estimated by that veterans organization that 10,000 ethnic Albanians fought in the Croatian Army, out of whom 87 died. [3]
Dragan Vasiljković moved to Australia and changed his name, but was arrested on an Interpol warrant and extradited to Croatia. On 26 December 2017 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for war crimes. Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović was assassinated on 15 January 2000 in Belgrade. His assassins, from Serbian criminal circles, were arrested and ...
On this terrible day, the good news for the defenders of Petrinja was that the Croatian army destroyed the radar system in the Sašin Greda military-missile base near Sisak, and conquered that base, which was held by JNA soldiers. [citation needed] Soon the Serbs occupied Hrvatska Dubica and all the Croatian villages around them. [citation needed]