DEMOGRAFSKI UZROCI I POSLJEDICE RATA PROTIV HRVATSKE
THE DEMOGRAPHIC CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR AGAINST CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: One of the causes of the war against the Republic of Croatia are most certainly unsatisfactory demographic trends concerning Serbs within the territory of former Yuqoslavla. Data showing that just over one third of the former Yugoslavian population were Serbs, that only two thirds of the Serbian population were living in their mother-republic, etc., required immediate action. After the year 1981 in Kosovo, steps should have been taken prior to the 1991 census, while in Croatia everything was already "prepared" for the realization of the Greater-Serbian concept. Although not altogether successfully achieved, the full tragedy of the Serbian aggression has been also demonstrated by the demographic consequences. In this paper the latter have been presented in the national composition of the population in occupied territory immediately before the war (31.03.1991). Not more than 6% of the population of Croatia occupied a quarter of its area banishing by means of ethnical cleansing as well as killing some 250 000 non-Serbian inhabitants. Croatia will be experiencing demographic losses caused by the war for years to come. They will be manifested in the decline of birth-rate during and after the war, which shall bring Croatia, within general population trends, to the very brink of extinction.

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