Original scientific paper
THE DEMOGRAPHIC CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR AGAINST CROATIA
Stjepan Šterc
; Faculty of Science, Zagreb
Nenad Pokos
; Institute for Applied Social Research University of Zagreb, Zagreb
Abstract
One of the causes of the war against the Republic of Croatia are
most certainly unsatisfactory demographic trends concerning
Serbs within the territory of former Yuqoslavla. Data showing that
just over one third of the former Yugoslavian population were
Serbs, that only two thirds of the Serbian population were living in
their mother-republic, etc., required immediate action. After the
year 1981 in Kosovo, steps should have been taken prior to the
1991 census, while in Croatia everything was already "prepared"
for the realization of the Greater-Serbian concept. Although not
altogether successfully achieved, the full tragedy of the Serbian
aggression has been also demonstrated by the demographic
consequences. In this paper the latter have been presented in the
national composition of the population in occupied territory
immediately before the war (31.03.1991). Not more than 6% of the
population of Croatia occupied a quarter of its area banishing by
means of ethnical cleansing as well as killing some 250 000
non-Serbian inhabitants. Croatia will be experiencing
demographic losses caused by the war for years to come. They
will be manifested in the decline of birth-rate during and after the
war, which shall bring Croatia, within general population trends, to
the very brink of extinction.
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Hrčak ID:
32531
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Publication date:
1.3.1993.
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