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The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought 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 its combat ...
18 mar 2016 · The Serb-dominated Yugoslav army lashed out, first in Slovenia and then in Croatia. Thousands were killed in the latter conflict which was paused in 1992 under a UN-monitored ceasefire.
Serbia, as a constituent subject of the SFR Yugoslavia and later the FR Yugoslavia, was involved in the Yugoslav Wars, which took place between 1991 and 1999—the war in Slovenia, the Croatian War of Independence, the Bosnian War, and Kosovo. From 1991 to 1997, Slobodan Milošević was the President of Serbia.
31 mar 2021 · Three decades after the first armed skirmishes in Croatia, a selective interpretation of the war for independence is still hampering inter-ethnic reconciliation and blighting the country’s ...
16 lis 2020 · In the post-war period, during the “second (aka Tito’s) Yugoslavia”, Serbia and Croatia were the core republics. Additional historic parallels between the two states can be traced back to their experiences during the Second World War.
10 gru 2022 · Conflict erupted in Croatia due to the large minority population of ethnic Serbs, who wanted Croatia to remain united with Serbia. The conflict deepened in 1992, when Bosnia, a third Yugoslav republic, declared its own independence after a referendum on March 1, paving the way for the Yugoslav Wars.
29 kwi 2013 · Montenegrin troops from the Yugoslav army were bombarding the historic city of Dubrovnik and, with its backing, rebel Croatian Serbs were carving out one-third of the country.
