Review article
OPERATION “STORM ” IN THE PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH AUTHORS
Andrijana Perković Paloš
; Split, Croatia
Abstract
The subject of the paper is methodology and conclusions of the scientific and journalist papers of the American and British authors regarding Croatian military-police Operation Storm. Most of the authors that wrote about the break-up of Yugoslavia, Homeland War and operation Storm deals with these topics in a superficial way. They consider the Yugoslav Wars as a result of the so-called “ethnic hatred between the Balkan tribes”, which relativizes the guilt for the outbreak of War. A great number of the Western authors, among them Laura Silber and Allan Little, Robert M. Hayden, Kate Hudson and R. Craig Nation, consider that Tuđman wanted a homogeneous nation-state and through the operation Storm Croatian leadership committed ethnic cleansing of the Krajina Serbs. Most of them view the Serbian national minority in Croatia as victims of mistreatment in the course of War in Croatia, which escalated in 1995. They don’t consider the political circumstances of the Croatian Operation Storm and the departure of Serbs. The conclusions that support the hypothesis of ethnic cleansing committed by the Croatian leadership, however, are not historically grounded and are a result of insufficient knowledge or an ideological base of the authors of the papers. There are some authors, on the other hand, like Sabrina P. Ramet and James J. Sadkovich who try to be objective when researching and writing about the Homeland War and Operation Storm. One can hope for a true scientific paper from a British or an American author on Homeland War and liberation of the occupied Croatian territories, taking into account primary sources and scientific papers of the Croatian historians.
Keywords
Operation “Storm”; Tuđman; Ethnic Cleansing; American and British Authors
Hrčak ID:
154371
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Publication date:
21.12.2015.
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