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Croatian War of Independence 1991-1995

The Croatian War of Independence was a war in Croatia from 1991 to 1995. Initially, the war was waged between Croatian police forces and the Serbs living in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, who opposed its secession from Yugoslavia, and proclaimed an autonomous "Republic of Serb Krajina" to ensure their status.

Over time, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), began helping the Serbs fighting in Croatia. The Croatian side aimed to establish a sovereign Republic of Croatia outside of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the Serbs, supported from Serbia, opposed the secession and wanted to remain a part of Yugoslavia, effectively seeking new boundaries in those parts of Croatia with a Serb majority or significant minority.

In Croatia the war is referred to as Domovinski rat (Homeland War).

In Serbia, the phrase rat u Hrvatskoj (War in Croatia) is the most common name.
 
Serbian APC's 1996

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Those pics of Sarajevo shouldn't be in this post. They should be in "Bosnian Civil War". Croatian military and para-military forces were engaged in war in Bosnia but that was not "Croatia's Homeland war". That was civil war in Bosnia.

I was thinking about starting a thread about Bosnian Civil War if that's okay? I found some pics I would like to share...
 
I know, mate! :) Our club is already a great historical database and I'm sure that with each passing year it'll become more and more valuable.
 
I visited the region (Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia) back in 2000, still freshly war-torn. Horrible war, and hearing the first-hand accounts of survivors made me chilled to the bone. A friend of mine, while standing on a cemetery in Sarajevo, was pointing out the graves of all his former school mates, while telling how he risked his life to strip copper wire from the Olympic stadium lighting towers during fog in order to be able to steal a bit of electricity from the hospital (the only building still with power) just so they could listen to the radio to know what was going on.....
 
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