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Balkan Express (1953 words) |
 | It was the Croatian War of Secession (or The Homeland War, as Croatians call it) that spawned the term "ethnic cleansing," saw the first mention of "Greater Serbian aggressors," provoked the UN arms embargo against former Yugoslavia and caused the war in Bosnia. |
| As glad as the Croatians were that the Serbs were bombed in 1999, NATOs glorious little war also meant a dead season for their tourist industry a major source of state revenue. |
| his digression into Croatian politics is worthwhile because of the praise that NATO and the US had directed at the Croatian government for its "war crimes" probe and willingness to cooperate with the ICTY, which was subsequently thrown in the face of the new Yugoslav regime. |
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Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian War - MSN Encarta (975 words) |
| Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian War, conflict from 1991 to 1995 that represented a clash of states amid the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). |
| Because of their superiority, Serbian forces were able to take control of more than a quarter of Croatian territory in 1991, and in 1992 around two thirds of Bosnia, laying siege to the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. |
| Croatian forces initially had the advantage, but as the year progressed, they were beaten back. |
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