In Lika , two guard brigades quickly cut the ARSK-held area ( which lacked tactical depth and mobile reserve forces ) , isolating pockets of resistance , positioning a mobile force for a decisive northward thrust Motion into the Karlovac Corps area of responsibility ( AOR ) , and pushing ARSK towards Banovina .

Italian forces were limited Limiting to air and artillery attacks Attack until 11 April , when the Italian army attacked Attack towards Ljubljana ( in modern-day Slovenia ) and through Istria and Lika and down the Dalmatian coast .

Srb uprising Change_of_leadership ( ) was a rebellion against the Independent State of Croatia ( , NDH ) that began Process_start on 27 July 1941 in Srb , a village in the region of Lika .

It soon spread Dispersal across Lika and Bosanska Krajina .

As NDH forces lacked the strength to suppress Hindering the uprising , the Italian Army , which was not a target of the rebels , expanded Expansion its zone of influence to Lika and parts of Bosanska Krajina .

The killings Killing were ordered Arranging by the Secretary of Lika Crisis Headquarters , Tihomir Orešković , and the commander of the 118th Infantry Brigade of the Croatian National Guard , Lieutenant Colonel Mirko Norac .

Operation Military_operation Medak Pocket ( , Операција Медачки џеп ) was a military operation undertaken by the Croatian Army between 9 – 17 September 1993 , in which a salient reaching Arriving the south suburbs of Gospić , in the south-central Lika region of Croatia then under the control Control of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina , was attacked Attack by Croatian forces .