 Complete the following phrase:  In 1990, following the electoral defeat of the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, ethnic tensions worsened. The Yugoslav Peoples Army Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija  JNA then confiscated the weapons of Croatias Territorial Defence Teritorijalna obrana in order to minimize resistance. On 17 August, tensions escalated into an open revolt of the Croatian Serbs, centred on the predomitly Serb-populated areas of the Dalmatian hinterland around Knin, parts of the Lika, Kordun, Banovina and eastern Croatia. After two unsuccessful attempts by Serbia, supported by Montenegro and Serbias provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo to obtain the Yugoslav Presidencys approval to deploy the JNA to disarm Croatian security forces in January 1991, and 