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	Krajina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cetinska Krajina, the watershed river by Cetina in the Dalmatian hinterland, near the border with Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
		Croatian Krajina (on the border of western Croatia and Bosnia)
		SAO Kninska Krajina, Kninska Krajina since the Yugoslav wars is used by some to signify two regions Knin and its surroundings, and to a larger extend Krajina proper (referring to main portion of Republic of Serbian Krajina).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krajina (316 words)

	Croatian Krajina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Croatian Krajina is a territory formed in the 16th century on the border of the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, part of the Military Frontier.
		It extended onto the Slavonian Krajina near the confluence of the Una river into Sava.
		Croatian Krajina included three sections: Varaždin borderland (Bilogora and Podravina), Karlovac Borderland (Lika and Kordun), and Zagreb Borderland (Banija/Banovina).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_Krajina (172 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - SOME BASIC HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE SERBIAN KRAJINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Having suffered all the blows coming from the new Croatian government, the Serbian people from the territories within the communist imposed boundaries of the former Yugoslav republic of Croatia have established the Republic of Serbian Krajina on December 19, 1991.
		The territory of the Serbian Krajina largely coincides with what used to be the "Military Frontier" (Vojna Krajina), along the borders of the Yugoslav republic of Croatia with its two eastern neighbors, the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
		Today, after the fears of Krajina Serbs have become a reality, their decision to use arms to protect their land, villages, homes and families, their religion and their national identity against Croatian guns is just and legitimate.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/papers/history/krayina.html (1165 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to a statement released by the Serb Krajina Foreign Ministry press office, the meeting should have focused on the protection of the remaining Serbs and their property in the Western Serb Krajina, which was invaded by the Croatian army in early August.
		Croatian authorities in Krajina claim that burials were performed in the presence of representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, but ICRC denies this.
		KRAJINA IN FLAMES B e l g r a d e, Aug. 21 (Tanjug) - A journey through the Republic of Serb Krajina is a journey through hell, according to the Slovenian magazine Republika of Ljubljana whose reporter has been among the rare few to make his way to Krajina's administrative center of Knin.
	www.hri.org /news/agencies/yds/1995/95-08-22.yds.txt (1843 words)

	Krajina - The Croatian Invasion
		In early August 1995, the Croatian invasion of Serbian Krajina precipitated the worst refugee crisis of the Yugoslav civil war.
		The invasion of Krajina was preceded by a thorough CIA and DIA analysis of the region.
		Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, "We are building the foundations of our organization on the traditions of the Croatian home guard" - pro-Nazi troops in World War II.
	kosovo99.tripod.com /krajina-.htm (1829 words)

	Republic of Serbian Krajina
		The original Krajina was carved out of parts of the crownlands of Croatia and Slavonia by Austria in 1553/1578 in order to form the Military Frontier with the Ottoman Empire.
		The participants included Milan Babić, Slobodan Milosević, other Krajina Serb figures such as Milan Martić, the Serbian militia leader Vojislav Šešelj and Yugoslav Army commanders including General Ratko Mladić, who was at the time the commander of JNA forces in Croatia.
		The increase in the Krajina's Serbian population was almost certainly due to Serbs from other parts of Croatia moving to the Krajina to escape ethnic tensions in their home regions.
	www.askfactmaster.com /RSK (2918 words)

	Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Croatia (the Republic of)
		Four other Croatian Serbs known to be indicted by the Tribunal remained at large; two of them were believed to be in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other two in Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
		Croatian Serbs, human rights defenders and critics of the government were the most common targets of a range of human rights violations committed throughout the country.
		Croatian Serb refugees and displaced people who tried to visit or return to their homes in the Krajina were also attacked.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/eur64.htm (1925 words)

	Original Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1993 the population of Croatia was 4, 763,000 with 75% being Croatian and 18% being Serbian.
		Krajina is the reward for having accepted, under Washington's pressure, the federation between Croats and Muslims in Bosnia." Croatian assembly deputy Mate Mestrovic also claimed that the "United States gave us the green light to do whatever had to be done." (1)
		After the fall of Krajina, Croatian chief of staff General Zvonimir Cervenko characterized Serbs as "medieval shepherds, troglodytes, destroyers of anything the culture of man has created." During a triumphalist train journey through Croatia and Krajina, Tudjman spoke at each railway station.
	www.bannerofliberty.com /OS7-00MQC/7-24-2000.1.html (2468 words)

	REPORTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By the decisions of the Croatian government, the private property of the Serbs is being seized in Krajina and throughout Croatia in general, the objective being to prevent the return of Serb refugees, to create an ethnically pure Croatia.
		In its aggression on RSK, the Croatian army committed the crimes of genocide and of ethnic cleansing, as attested to by numerous statements of witnesses, reports of representatives of the UN, the EU Mission, the ICRC, of the press, as well as by the "Helsinki Watch" Report from July 1995.
		The Croatian authorities which reached agreement with the UN on the route to be followed by refugee convoys did not honour their commitment to grant their safe passage.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/izvestaji/rep-OnEtnicCleansing.html (5579 words)

	AIM Report - May A, 1999
		Footage of Krajina Serbs loading what possessions they could onto wagons had been shown on TV, but there were no touching interviews with pathetic Serb refugees telling tales of woe in the refugee camps where many of them have lived for nearly five years.
		Citing a confidential tribunal report on Operation Storm, the Croatian name for the operation, Bonner reported that investigators concluded that the Croatian Army carried out summary executions, indiscriminate shelling of civilian populations and ethnic cleansing in expelling the Serbs from the region.
		While the Croatian military attack received some page-one coverage from the Washington Post and the New York Times, newspapers tended to mirror the bias of the broadcast media, implying that the Serbs who were forced to flee had no right to be in the area.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1999/05a.htm (3131 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: US role in Operation Storm in Croatia
		U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke referred to the Croatian army as his "junkyard dogs" and acknowledges that the Croatian army was used to inflict substantial losses to the Milosevic-controlled Yugoslav army and shift momentum of the war.
		Croatian defense minister Pavao Miljavac (right) decorated MPRI executive director Major General Richard Griffits with the Order of the Croatian Clover in recognition of his contributions to helping Croatia create its own armed forces.
		The Croatian government met in emergency session yesterday to decide how to respond to sealed indictments issued by the international war crimes tribunal this weekend against two former generals accused of murdering Serb civilians, threatening a new political crisis in a country still struggling to recover from war.
	mprofaca.cro.net /operation_storm.html (6091 words)

	The Republic of Serbian Krajina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		(Republika Srpska Krajina, RSK) was an internationally unrecognized Serbian republic in Croatia.
		The net effect of the Krajina's troubled 20th century history was that, by the end of the 1980s, many Serbs were very distrustful of the Croatian government.
		The Krajina Serbs established a paramilitary militia under the leadership of Milan Martic, the police chief in Knin, as a means of defense from the Croatian special police units (which were paramilitary in many ways too) that the regime of Tudjman would later use to create Croatian army.
	koz.vianet.ca /boshis118.htm (3931 words)

	Cermak and Markac - Indictment
		In this Indictment every reference to "Croatian forces" means and includes those units of the HV, the Croatian Air Force or Hrvatsko Ratno Zrakoplovstvo (the "HRZ"), and units of the RH MUP that participated in Operation Storm and/or its aftermath and also the civilian and Special Police, in the southern portion of the Krajina region.
		By 1992, the Croatian Army was formulating plans for the forcible re-taking of the territory of the "RSK." In 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995, Croatian forces launched military operations with this ultimate objective.
		Ante GOTOVINA was the overall operational commander of the Croatian forces that were deployed as part of Operation Storm in the southern portion of the Krajina region, including the municipalities, in whole or in part, of Benkovac, Gracac, Knin, Obrovac, Sibenik, Sinj and Zadar.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/cer-ii040224e.htm (3406 words)

	Military Frontier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		(Military Border, Military Krajina, Vojna Krajina,, Militärgrenze, Confiniaria militaria) was a borderland of Habsburg Austria which acted as the cordon sanitaire against the Turks from the Middle Ages (Croatian Krajina) or from the late 17th and 18th centuries (Slavonian and Banat Krajina) until the 19th century.
		By the end of the 16th century the Croatian Krajina became known as the Karlovac generalat, and since the 1630s the Upper Slavonian Krajina was known as the Varaždin generalat.
		During the 16th and 17th century, the military administration of the Frontier was moved away from the Croatian ban and the Sabor (Parliament) and instead instated in the high command of Archduke Charles and the War Council in Graz.
	koz.vianet.ca /boshis80.htm (1431 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Serb Krajina Milan Milanovic said that the ceasefire agreement was the principal pre-condition for negotiations between the Serb and Croatian sides.
		Following the operation in Krajina the Croatian authorities have detained men aged from 18 to 60 in six centers, mostly sports halls and schools where they will be held while they are under investigation and where they can regularly be visited by the ICRC, Anselmo said.
		Granic told Ayal that the Croatian Army had received instructions to exercise maximum restraint in actions that would be dangerous for the civilian population and their property but allowed for some 'isolated incidents.' Granic's claims were refuted in a most striking way by the President of the ICRC Cornelio Somaruga.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/yds/1995/95-08-26.yds.txt (2679 words)

	GENOCIDE AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA KRAJINA IN AUGUST 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After taking Krajina, the Croatian authorities arrested a large number of people and confined them to camps where they were subjected to extremely brutal treatment, for which purposes they had in fact adapted schools and sports halls.
		Then, UNPROFOR brokered negotiations between colonel Cedo Bulat and the Croatian general Stipetic who set the condition that we were to surrender all heavy and light armaments or the Croatian army would attack the column of civilian refugees which was on the road leading from Vrginmost to Glina and Zirovac and Dvor na Uni.
		The witness 300/96-6, told the Committee worker that with her mother she had been in the convoy of refugees which was attacked by members of the Croatian army and that she witnessed for herself the killings of a number of civilians.
	www.balkanpeace.org /wcs/wct/wcts/wcts28.shtml (17131 words)

	Invastion of Krajina
		As Croatian troops launched their assault on August 4, U.S. NATO aircraft destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses.
		Croatia adopted a new currency in 1994, the kuna, the same name as that used by the Ustashe state, and the new Croatian flag is a near-duplicate of the Ustashe flag.
		In an open letter, the Croatian Jewish community protested the rehabilitation of the Ustashe state.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /krajina.htm (3086 words)

	MTGL -- From previous issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When he and his elderly parents were driven from their home near Knin in the heart of the Croatian Krajina in the summer of 1995, his forced journey took him first to Bosnian Serb territory, then to Serbia and finally back to Knin.
		When NATO bombing struck the Serbian city of Nis, where he had been taken in as a refugee, Drago Belic decided that the risk of a return to Knin was preferable to living under the threat of cruise missiles.
		The Krajina in the eastern borderlands of today's Croatia was home to a Serbian minority for more than three centuries until the Croatian offensive in 1995 drove a quarter of a million Serbs from the region to seek refuge in other Serbian communities in the former Yugoslavia.
	www.hamline.edu /world/backissues/backissue4.html (974 words)

	WJLA - Croatian Serb War Criminal Commits Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A Croatian Serb convicted of ethnic cleansing after leading a brutal revolt during the Balkan wars committed suicide in prison, the U.N. tribunal said Monday, a setback for prosecutors counting on his testimony in other war crimes cases.
		Babic, a former dentist, was a ranking Croatian Serb leader when the Serb minority revolted after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, setting off a war that lasted until 1995.
		From August to December 1991, Croatian Serbs killed hundreds of Muslims and Croats in the Serb-dominated Krajina region and drove 80,000 from their homes.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0306/308349.html (851 words)

	Krajina Serbs
		Krajina - the Military Frontier - was a place of constant battle and the Serbs endured centuries of struggle...
		Expulsion of Krajina Serbs is undeniably - the largest ethnic cleansing in Europe since the end of the World War II.
		Genocide that Krajina (and Bosnian) Serbs have suffered during WWII is difficult to put in words.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/krajina.html (816 words)

	Ante Gotovina - Amended Indictment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From February to April 1992, he was Deputy to the Commander of the Special Unit of the Main Staff of the Croatian army, the Hrvatska Vojska (the "HV"), and from April to October 1992, he was assigned to the Croatian Defence Council, the Hrvatsko Vijece Obrane (the "HVO").
		At all times relevant to this Amended Indictment, a state of armed conflict existed in the Krajina region of the Republic of Croatia in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
		In December 1993, Ivan CERMAK ceased to be a Minister of the Croatian government.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/got-ai040224e.htm (3211 words)

	Krajina, Serbs of Krajina, Croatia, Slavonia
		Croatian Communist Tito renamed all those areas into - Croatia.
		Krajina, which for last four centuries was populated with majority Serbian population was never (with exception of the above mentioned periods) - ruled by Croatia.
		Despite the genocide, despite the hardships, the Serbs endured and were, still, majority population of Krajina.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /History/pre-wwOne/Krajina-Serbs.html (1361 words)

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		Jason Gabriel Varga, a young Croatian American in his early twenties.
		great-grandson of Croatians who immigrated to the United States in the early
		Croatian identity, language and culture in what was then known (prior to
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/92.htm (1207 words)

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