The fundamental aim of the article is to present an alternative view and facts on the background of the military-political case of the „Vukovar operation“ in 1991 in the broader context of the internal and external brutal destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), historical disputes and struggles between the Serbs and the Croats as well as in the context of the international law and moral guidelines of the global politics and regional security at the time of the very beginning of the post-Cold War era of the international relations. [4] The liberation of Vukovar prevented potential aggression by Croatian fighters on the territory of Serbia (a practice that the Croats had already implemented once during the First World War in 1914 and 1915) and aimed at annexing Eastern Srem as a “historical Croatian land” in the image of the Poglavnik Ante Pavelić, given that the basic ideological-national goal of Tuđman’s policy in the 1990s was the restoration of the territorial integrity of Pavelić’s Independent State of Croatia along with the ethnic cleansing of the remaining Serbs in this area. After the rejection of the CDU amendments to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Croatia by the Vukovar Assembly on July 17th, 1990, which essentially abolished the national rights of the Serbian people in Croatia, following the example of Pavelić’s ISC, the neo-Ustashi CDU government of Croatia took special measures, according to which weapons were brought into the city, the ethnic Croatian militia (modeled after Hitler’s SS and SA units) and CDU paramilitary formations were armed, and as the peak of the crisis, a public parade of ethnic Croatian soldiers with symbols from Pavelić’s ISC was organized on March 27th, 1991.
Author: Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović
Published at: 2026-01-06 22:53:28
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