Word: croats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Those Serb attacks, in turn, triggered a counteroffensive by Croatia, across the border from Bihac. Up to 10,000 Croat troops attacked south and west of Bihac, cutting a main supply route between the two Serb strongholds of Knin in Croatia and Banja Luka in Bosnia. Artillery fire sent 5,000 Serb civilians fleeing from the town of Bosansko Grahovo, which the Croats captured on Friday. Croat forces followed up by taking nearby Glamoc and shelling Strmica. Karadzic confirmed that his army had "withdrawn to reserve positions" and ordered full mobilization in the 70% of Bosnia already in his grasp...
...Croatian Serbs in 1991. Ever since, President Franjo Tudjman has been preparing openly for a campaign aimed at recapturing that land, and the Croatian armed forces have been rebuilding and training with new weapons. In May they took back Western Slavonia, and it has been assumed that a major Croat offensive would begin this summer. The action last week seemed to be the overture. By week's end, young men had disappeared from the streets of Zagreb, called up into the army, and Croat forces had begun to gather near Karlovac, just north of Krajina. A U.N. spokesman says massive...
...Croatia enters the war at full throttle, the Balkan equation will change entirely. It will be a Serb vs. Croat conflict; the Bosnian Muslims will become the Croats' rivalrous junior partners; and the border between Bosnia and Croatia may all but disappear. There are six armies in the field along that border: those of the Croats, the Bosnian Croats and the Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are allied; and those of the Bosnian Serbs, the Croatian Serbs and some renegade Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are also allied. If the Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia begin to lose battles...
...balance of power in the area. It is the only effective international mechanism and should not be traded away at any cost. Instead, sanctions should be given time to work. While keeping and even strengthening the sanctions against Serbia, the international community should help Croatia and the Croat-Muslim entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina refocus their energies and resources on economic development. Clearly the solution for the region is not with Belgrade. It rests in sanctions, assistance and, most of all, patience. MARIO NOBILO Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Croatia New York City...
...reports from Zagreb that the rebel Republic of Serb Krajina has agreed to all the demands of the Croatian government. Butthe Croatian government, flush from a string of recent battlefield victories, declined the offer, saying they want the Serbs to accept full government authority. Barnes reports that thousands of Croat troops are massed near the Krajina border. "The Croatian military has been itching totake back the land seized by the Serbs three years ago. But the Croatian government will at least postpone their long-awaited assault until they can find a reason that will satisfy the international community...