The Ethno-Demographic Framework of Greater Serbian Aggression against the Republic Of Croatia, 1991-1997
The Ethno-Demographic Framework of Greater Serbian Aggression against the Republic Of Croatia, 1991-1997

Summary/Abstract: The demographic development of a given area is conditioned by numerous factors; sometimes as the consequence, at other times as the cause of socio-economic events and changes (and more often disturbances). Changes in the dynamics and structures of a population are often the result of disturbances in social and economic development, and if they are abrupt and sudden, then the adverse consequences are more evident and pernicious. In this sense, the events of war especially cause great disturbances in demographic development, for they provoke numerous direct (immediate) and indirect demographic losses which, in the future, can damage and limit the stable population development of an area considerably. It is well known that war always alters the demographic picture of a given area, in the sphere of the natural, spatial (migrational) and general movement of a population, as well as in the sphere of demographic structures, be they age-sex, socio-economic, ethnic, confessional, etc. (Wertheimer-Baletic, A., 1992). The war against Croatia, in Croatia, from 1991 to 1995, as well as several years’ occupation of a significant portion of Croatian state territory (1991-1997), aggravated enormous material destruction. But more importantly, the war also exacerbated vast human casualties - some twenty thousand people killed, thousands wounded, tens of thousands of displaced persons. These are only approximate indicators of the demographic damage inflicted against the Croatian population during Greater Serbian aggression. In this article, we shall attempt to demonstrate one of the most significant ethno-demographic aspects (frameworks) of the war against Croatia; for by familiarising ourselves with it we will be able to disclose the cause of these consequences of war and occupation, and their motives from 1991 to 1997.

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