The Homeland War is the war fought by the Croatian people in
defence of the Croatian state against the aggression brought in
1990 by the joint Greater Serbian forces: Serbian extremists in
Croatia, the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) (which was gradually
transformed into the Serbian army), and Serbia and Montenegro.
The Homeland War was fomented against Croatia in August 1990,
when Serb rebels supported by the JNA launched armed attacks
against the legal institutions of the Croatian state and set up
the self-proclaimed Serbian autonomous regions in Croatia with
the purpose of seceding from Croatia. The war continued in April
with the gradual military intervention of the JNA and
intensified in June 1991 with the direct invasion of those parts
of Croatia which Serbia wanted to occupy and annex. Croatia
succeeded in halting the aggressor by military and diplomatic
means and in liberating a part of the occupied regions through
counter–attacks. Following the arrival of the UN peacekeeping
forces on the demarcation li