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3 days ago · Tudjman then described a proposed partition of Bosnia among Croatia and Serbia, “where Croatia would get the areas...in the community of Herceg-Bosnia and the community of Croatian Posavina, and probably for geopolitical reasons in Cazin, in the Bihać region, which would provide almost optimal satisfaction of Croatian national interests”.
- See End of the war
6 days ago · A majority of Croats supported Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia, while many ethnic Serbs living in Croatia, supported by Serbia, [28] [29] opposed the secession and advocated Serb-claimed lands to be in a common state with Serbia.
4 days ago · Tudjman claimed Jasenovac was administered by Jews, that estimates of 6 million Jewish Holocaust victims were exaggerated, that Jews invented ethnic cleansing, while accusing Jews of genocide and other misdeeds.
4 days ago · On 25th June 1991, Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia (as did Slovenia) prompting Serbian invasion. Croats rose to defend their country under the leadership of its first president, Franjo Tudjman (who died in December 1999). After four years the country was fully liberated.
2 days ago · When the new Jasenovac memorial museum exhibition was opened in Croatia in 2006 – then emerging from the Franjo Tudjman era – the museum’s administration similarly decided not to indicate the ethno-religious identity of the victims or ascribe responsibility for their deaths, using the reasoning that Serbian nationalists had misused the memory of Ustasa genocide (although they didn’t use that terminology) to stimulate hatred against Croats as a people and to legitimise war crimes ...
5 days ago · The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), whose founder and national leader Franjo Tudjman led the war effort in Croatia, is right-of-centre, whereas the Social Democratic Party (SDP) is left-of-centre. According to Dolenec ( Citation 2012 ), although socioeconomic cleavages exist in the Croatian society, they do not form the basis for political party competition.
2 days ago · Tudjman died in December 1999, and Stipe Mesić, who had broken with the HDZ over Tudjman’s autocratic rule, was elected president in February 2000. Mesić quickly moved to cut down corruption and to improve Croatia’s relations with its neighbours, but he failed to deliver on promises of early entry to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ...
