In addition to Glina and Kozibrod , heavy fighting Hostile_encounter took place Process_start in the village of Struga , north of Dvor , where Croatian Serb forces Hostile_encounter employed Employment a human shield consisting Cause_to_be_included of Croat civilians taken Conquering from their homes in Struga and the nearby village of Zamlača .

Afterwards , they killed Killing several Croat civilians who were undergoing treatment Cure at the Dvor medical centre .

They were perpetrated Committing_crime by the Croatian Serb SAO Krajina police and generally targeted Aiming ethnic Croat civilians in Široka Kula .

The Lovas killings ( , , ) involved Cause_to_be_included the killing Killing of 70 Croat civilian residents of the village of Lovas between 10–18 October 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

After the Croatian Serb forces , the JNA and the paramilitaries established Building their control Control in the village , the Croat population was required Imposing_obligation to wear white armbands and mark Recording their houses using Using white sheets .

The Croatian War Military_operation of Independence was fought Hostile_encounter from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared Expressing_publicly independence Change_of_leadership from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) and local Serb forces , with the JNA ending its combat Hostile_encounter operations Military_operation in Croatia by 1992 .

During the uprising Change_of_leadership numerous war crimes were committed Commitment against local Croat and Muslim population , especially in the area of Kulen Vakuf .

The Saborsko massacre Killing ( , ) was the killing Killing of 29 Croat residents of the village of Saborsko on 12 November 1991 , following the seizure of the village in a Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) and Croatian Serb offensive during the Croatian War of Independence .

The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina , Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia , which were led Causation and supplied Supply by Serbia and Croatia , respectively .

The conflict Hostile_encounter was initially between the Yugoslav Army units in Bosnia which later transformed Change into the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) on the one side , and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) which was largely composed of Bosniaks , and the Croat forces in the Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) on the other side .

The Bosnian War Military_operation was characterised by bitter fighting , indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns , ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape , mainly perpetrated Committing_crime by Serb , and to a lesser extent , Croat and Bosniak forces .