Operation Military_operation Stinger ( ; ) was an offensive undertaken by the forces Hostile_encounter of the SAO Krajina , an unrecognized Croatian Serb region opposing Agree_or_refuse_to_act the Republic of Croatia , against positions held by the Croatian police in the region of Banovina on 26–27 July 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

The 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) led by Colonel Ratko Mladić and the forces of the Serbian Autonomous Oblast ( region ) of Krajina ( SAO Krajina ) under Knin police chief Milan Martić besieged Besieging the Croat-inhabited village of Kijevo in late April and early May 1991 .

The JNA and the SAO Krajina forces renewed Recovering the blockade in mid-August .

The fighting in Kijevo was significant as one of the first instances when the JNA openly sided Self_motion with the SAO Krajina against Croatian authorities .

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

The occupation of Lovas and the killing Killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included Cause_to_be_included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indictments of the President of Serbia , Slobodan Milošević , and Goran Hadžić , a high-ranking official of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia .

It was fought Hostile_encounter between Croatian police and armed forces from the Croatian Serb-established SAO Krajina at the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia , on 31 March 1991 .

The fighting Hostile_encounter followed the SAO Krajina 's takeover of the Plitvice Lakes National Park and resulted in Causation Croatia recapturing Control the area .

They tried to fight Defending off an attack Attack by the Croatian Serb SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia ( SAO SBWS ) Territorial Defence Forces , supported Supporting by the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) and the Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitaries .

They tried to fight Defending off an attack Attack by the Croatian Serb SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia ( SAO SBWS ) Territorial Defence Forces , supported Supporting by the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) and the Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitaries .

The SAO SBWS was declared Expressing_publicly an autonomous territory in eastern Croatia following the Battle of Borovo Selo just to the south of Dalj .

After the war , the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) charged Judgment_communication high-ranking SAO SBWS and Serbian officials , including Slobodan Milošević and Goran Hadžić , with war crimes committed Commitment in Dalj .

The capture Conquering of Saborsko and the killing Killing and expulsion Removing of its civilian population was included Cause_to_be_included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indictments of Milan Babić and Milan Martić , high-ranking officials of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Krajina .

The offensive was aimed Aiming at recapturing the region , in conjunction with two other HV offensives launched Motion against SAO Western Slavonia in the north of the region within days .

SAO Western Slavonia retained Preserving control of the town of Okučani and its surroundings , including a short section of the Zagreb–Slavonski Brod motorway .