User talk:Kubura/War in Croatia-longer version

"Country in a state of flux"

Country in a state of flux? What do you mean by that? Don't think that beginning of some country's independence is a position "grab as much as you can" from that country.
1) To simplify: the rebellion of Serbs was incited, encouraged and helped from Serbia.
2) All Serbs haven't rebelled. Neither all that rebelled originally wanted to do so. Some weren't satisfied with new circumstances in Croatia, but they had no plans to rebel.
3) Croatia was not in the opportunity to choose the war. Croatia was very, very weakly armed; almost all were light weapons (hunting rifles, pistols, stolen army guns), no artillery, tanks, AF were few agriculture planes, almost no any AA weapons (don't count here what was surrendered later). Military light weapons that Croatia had were the weapons that were somehow smuggled into the country and somehow delivered to loyal citizens. Many didn't reach the destination.
Rebel Serbs weren't "poor farmers with muskets". Local Serbs' got all available JNA's weapons. (reminder: JNA, federal army, was ruled by Serbs and Montenegrins). Some Serb communities in Croatia were cold-headed enough to pass those weapons to Croatian police authorities and to stay loyal.
Besides all these conditions, UN makes resolution about "weapons embargo" for "all sides".
With few months of retardation.
And after Serbia used some World Bank funds given to Yugoslavia as a whole, not to Serbia (guess where that money ended - probably cactus farms).
Weapons embargo that was to be applied to both sides equally (note: find some older newspapers and (specialized) magazines and see what chances were given to Croatia). Probably Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro were equally armed.
Yugoslav foreign currency reserves were in Belgrade, Serbia. But that money was earned from tourism in Croatia. That money Croatia never saw again. We bought our weapons from our "sock and mattress money" funds.
4) Paranoia was implanted into local Serbs' minds. Unfortunately, you weren't here to see the changes of behaviour of Serbs that lived here. Their heads were filled with ideas that they were "endangered" here.
5) All this rebellion was a "mask" to annihilate Croatia, to forcefully annex Croatian territories to Serbia and Montenegro; and make ethnic cleaning of Croatia. They did so on rebelled and occupied areas. No Croats left there. What Serbs did later to Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, they planned to do to Croats as whole. We, Croats, were smart enough to see trouble coming (why we saw and Muslims haven't seen... long story).
When they didn't manage to capture whole Croatia, they turned to terrorist methods - shelling of civil targets in Croatian cities (examples were numerous).
At least, if you don't believe me, ask Serbs, but not the ones that were too little kids in 1990's; ask the Serbs that were mature persons than, high school or older. You won't hear the same story from the ones that were from Serbia (they never liked Croatia, they started the whole war). The other testimony you'll get from these groups of Croatian Serbs: from ones that lived in rebel areas in Croatia and the ones that were living in Croatian government-controlled areas (especially big cities), but moved to Serbia or Montenegro or somewhere abroad. I witnessed this myself.
Sorry for being a little long, but, that's what are talk-pages for. Kubura 15:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)