Informacijski rat protiv Oluje
Information war against the Storm

Summary/Abstract: Media have one of key roles in showing war events and due to that they influence on forming the public knowledge about those events. Different political options in the Croatian War of Independence used media for gaining political and military power after the war for winning and keeping key political positions according to which history will be written and collectiove opinion about the war, winners, defeated ones etc. will be formed. The aim of the information war against the operation Storm, which was lead in the information and media space, was to show Croatia, its military and political leadership and all Croats as “agressors”. Storm, as a military operation, which represents a symbol of Croatian victory in the war against Serbian aggressor, should be the key part of the public knowledge about the war in Croatia and it should be shown as a victory against much stronger enemy. Croatian War of Independence and participants in that war are incriminated through media texts which accuse entire political and military leadership of the Republic of Croatia headed by Franjo Tuđman, while the fight of Croatia for freedom is shown as the “war crime”. The aim of this paper is to give a systematic overview of media and information war directed to equalization quilt in the war without pointing out winners and defeated ones and through the overview of texts about the operation Storm, joint criminal enterprise, generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač, first-instance accusing verdict and second-instance liberating verdict for generals Gotovina and Markač, excessive shelling and many other factors related to media overview of the operation Storm.

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