[peter_co]

In 1995, the Croatian military launched a full scale attack against areas in Southern Croatia that were under the control of local Serbians (where they formed the majority of the population). When Croatia declared independence, Serbia (or rather the army of Yugoslavia) came into direct conflict with the Croatian military on the side of the local Serbs and the Serbs dominated the conflict, which only ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire in 1992. The Croat attack represented not only a blatant break of the ceasefire, but also could be seen as a massive action of ethnic cleansing, as a result of which hundreds of thousands of Serbs were forced to flee the country, in other words Serbia would have had ample justification for becoming involved. And yet, Serbia did not intervene directly, even though it had the forces to do so (albeit its tactical superiority over Croatia had decreased since three years ago due to vigorous Croatian armament). Why do you believe that Serbia chose not to confront Croatia?

[LAz]

The West would have bombed the shit out of serbia, if serbia had moved towards doing anything. Having 70% of the GDP melt is bad enough thanks to sanctions.

We also need to look at the terrotorial distribution of Krajina. It was a weak godforsaken poor piece of land, plus a little big that bordered serbia. The part that bordered serbia was not attacked. As for the rest of it, well, there were some issues... how could one even get troops over there, to defend those rocks? They would have to cross over bosnia, and well shit, steping a foot into bosnia would get NATO to bomb not just republika srpska but serbia too. There was nothing that could have been done.

[Independent_Srpska]

Why do you believe that Serbia chose not to confront Croatia?

For the same reasons Yugoslav army was barred for preventing Slovenia's illegal/unconstitutional moves towards independence - because of NATO threats to Serbia...(In fact, open threat by Germany to Yugoslav leadership)

For the same reasons Serbian army had to watch how Squips expel 200.000+ Serbs from Kosmet on 17 of March 2004, in front of eyes of NATO (in fact, NATO was guarding ethnic cleansing of Serbs by its presence there)...

In Croatia , during that operation Storm (which represents the biggest ethnic cleansing in Europe after WWII, and the biggest unpunished robbery ever) , NATO was eyes/ears/anti-aircraft-defense of Croat army (not to mention that NATO was the main provider of arms and training to Croats...)

So, Serbia could not react because of the big puppeteer behind the scene...

[LAz]

For the same reasons Serbian army had to watch how Squips expel 200.000+ Serbs from Kosmet on 17 of March 2004, in front of eyes of NATO (in fact, NATO was guarding ethnic cleansing of Serbs by its presence there)...

In Croatia , during that operation Storm (which represents the biggest ethnic cleansing in Europe after WWII, and the biggest unpunished robbery ever) , NATO was eyes/ears/anti-aircraft-defense of Croat army (not to mention that NATO was the main provider of arms and training to Croats...)

Correction.

2,000 to 3,000 were driven out from kosovo in 2004, along with dozens of our churches being torched.
200,000 were driven out right after the bombing, in 1999 and 2000.
And all the jews were flushed out of kosovo. The non-serb minorities, other than the turks, suffered big time.



Ethnic cleansing in croatia is often forgotten... just as many people were driven out from croatia before opperation storm as have been driven out during opperation storm. Cleansing in the 1990s started in croatia - in western slavonia even before the war began, tens of thousands there, and many more thousands elsewhere, to total 200,000 even before operation storm.

[peter_co]

For the same reasons Yugoslav army was barred for preventing Slovenia's illegal/unconstitutional moves towards independence - because of NATO threats to Serbia...(In fact, open threat by Germany to Yugoslav leadership)

You're wrong here. Ironically, it was actually Serbia that blocked the military intervention in Slovenia. When Slovenia started rebelling and attacking JNA, there was actually a majority in the State Council in favor of military action against the Slovenes, but Jovic voted No and blocked the plan. He later explained that he did this because Serbia had no territory conflict with Slovenia and no Serbs lived there, and he was more concerned with Croatia. http://books.google.com/books?id=KoHQEE ... &ct=result Had the JNA attacked then, the Slovenian forces could have been defeated in a matter of hours since they were a joke, and in all likelihood there would have been no Western intervention (even in Croatia it took a long time for the UN to act, and even then not militarily).

[Independent_Srpska]

Humm, but I heard from Jovic's mouth how Genscher was threatening him in 1991 (when Jovic met him) saying if Yugoslavia would deploy army to prevent Slovenians from getting independence, Germany would consider that as an attack on " a democratic wish" of Slovenian people and they would intervene with army to protect Slovenia....

His words...I am just repeating what I have heard from him...

[Bosnjak]

Slobo was bribeable.

[InterestedInPolitics]

Slobo was bribeable.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[LAz]

I think this bribe idea stuff is B.S., no offense.

You guys could suggests some reason as to why/how.