Outlook Croatia was now led by Franjo preparations were far шогс Tudiman. advanced in Slovenia than in Croa nationalist and second-string tia. The EC called for the unity of Yugoslavia. crimes on his hands. But he was not Two days after the declaration the a fascist, as SA suggest, running an INA forced to withdraw alter LU days by He had won power after the Croa- international pressure and surpristian CP opted for a first-past-the- ingly strong Slovenian resistance -0OSI leaving Slovensa as an independent multi-party elections. Had they state. Ultimately Slovenia could not chosen PR they would have been in have defcated the JNA, but Milosehave militated against the whip- since it had a negligible Serb popuof nationalism the lation region, to some extent, and probably altered the course of events. Serbs, in a so-called spontancous more, and led by Serb nationalist (and Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). leader) Milan Babic, over the Kraina region of Croatia by force and declared it independent South from north They named it the Autonomous Province of Krajina (later Republika Srpska Krajina). They had the backing of Milosevic and were Augoslav Nationa Army (NA).IE armed supported was a hammer blow to the unity of Yugoslavia and a huge challenge to heavy Croatia.
No army Tudiman had no army to resist the JNA and sought to stabilise the sitVukovar. case, had his own agenda for carving up the region (in effect Bosnia) he was pushed towards indepenport dence. Dubrovnik on SA defends Milosevic's Kraina cration this way: "In Croatia, it [Milosevie's upheld the right to autonomy of the Serbian minority and the federal army was hand-to-hand deployed enclaves against the new Croatian military, until the point where EU wounded. Croats and US sanctions pressurised Milosevic to agree to the deployment of Iwo weeks later, at the end of March 1991, Milosevic and Tuditheir objectives. Milosevic now man met in scorch ancy concruaca that Yugoslavia was now effectively to his Irceze current successor states would eventually CHICEN rest of Croatia.
The issue was cach carve Bosayove the detriment of Bosnia put it this way: the Later, EC mediator Lord Carringcon, after meetings with Milosevic ano roojman: control, all, point: "When I first talked to Presidents Milosevic and Tudiman, it was quile cicar that bom of tocm had a solution which was mutually - which was that they were going to carve up Bosnia between them".
April 199 Milosevic recog the JNA nised the Krajina Serb's. Soon after that the ultra-nationalist Bosnian country. So Serb leader, Kadavan called for "an armed force of the People" up throughout "the Serb lands Yugoslavia" Croatian Undeclared war December There was now an undeclared war Tudiman to meet seck EC between Serbian forces and Croatia, although Tudiman remained reluc- Germans military imbalance. But Serbian were in occupation of a quar- week later ter of Croatia, and expanding On May Tudiman publicly Germans warned of the inkelhood of all-out war with Serbia. It would be a war would have little to do with defendAt the decided 200,000 Serbs living in Zagreb were ignored) and everything to do graboing croatan cantory and tract mining its right to independence.
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