WAR CRIME AND GENOCIDE IN 1991 SERBIAN AGGRESSION AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA Cover Image

RATNI ZLOČIN I ZLOČIN GENOCIDA U AGRESIJI SRBIJE NA REPUBLIKU HRVATSKU 1991...
WAR CRIME AND GENOCIDE IN 1991 SERBIAN AGGRESSION AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Author(s): Anka Tojčić, Slavenka Sedlar, Vlado Šakić
Subject(s): Military history, Evaluation research, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: War crime; Genocide; 1991; Serbian aggression; Croatia;

Summary/Abstract: The extremely cruel sufferings ofthe civilian population in Serbia's armed aggression against Croatia in 1991, (according to still incomplete data the proportion of civili ian casualties in the masacres with regard to the total number of civillians killed is 61%), as well as the fact that the crimes were committed on Croatian territory towards which Serbia has territorial claims - are the basis of our argument that genocide is part of the Serbian war strategy. The relevant sources of information used in the paper were government institution records (the Medical Corps Headquarters of the Croatian Army and the Commission for Dealing With Prisoners of War), Croatian newspapers (from May 2nd 1991 through March 1993), a small number of medical publications (Croatian Medical Journal, War Supplement 1 and 2) and Mass Killing and Genocide in Croatia 1991/92 published by the Croatian University Publishing House). Information presented in the text regarding the number of casualties is not an accurate image of the current situation, which was not our intention in the first place, but a documented and scientifically argued illustration of the suffering of the Croatian people in the period of the fiercest Serbian aggression against those Croatian territories the Serbs wanted to conquer and submit to ethnical cleansing.

  • Issue Year: 2/1993
  • Issue No: 04+05
  • Page Range: 407-454
  • Page Count: 48
  • Language: Croatian