what the hell are you talking about?
I'm not sure I heard of any larger Croatian paramilitary unit, are you sure you didn't mix up nations?
I'm not sure I heard of any larger Croatian paramilitary unit, are you sure you didn't mix up nations?
Croatian National Guard (ZNG), later part of Croatian Defence Forces (HOS) were both paramilitary formations because in the time they've been formed only Constitutionally established and legal military force in Yugoslavia was Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). There has been much more (at least dozen) other small paramilitary Croatian units but these two were major. Croatian self-declared independence was then pushed against the Statute of Yugoslavia, thus illegal. But as Bryant said, unlike Russian minority in Ukraine Croats enjoyed strong political, financial and logistic support from the western powers who, in pursuit of their own strategic goals in the Balkans, decided to break international law, ignore Charter of the UN and Yugoslavian territorial integrity and to recognize Croatian secession, sending Yugoslavia into the nightmare of civil war.
they were paramilitary only 1 year, then they integrated themselves into HV (Hrvatska vojska, Croatian Army)
0 HOS members have been convicted for war crimes
what crimes are you talking about?
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But as Bryant said, unlike Russian minority in Ukraine Croats enjoyed strong political, financial and logistic support from the western powers who, in pursuit of their own strategic goals in the Balkans, decided to break international law
that is very not true for a couple of reasons
western forces never wanted to break up Yugoslavia, they wanted a strong nation between them and Russia, Yugoslavia was succesfully distancing themselves from USSR and as the leading force of the "3rd block" no one wanted to break it up, that is why I dislike western countries, they wanted to preserve Yugoslavia no matter the cost for their own selfish reasons
when the war started the western countries prevented selling guns to any of the Balkan countries and therefore making clear who they wanted to win, which was of course well armed Yugoslav army
other countries had nothing, we had to use agricultural planes to throw gas cylinders on pinpointed locations..
most of the financial support came from the Croats which were forced to immigrate in the 2nd WW, still we had nothing at the beginning and the UN was preventing us to regain our territory