1991-2001, Homogénéisation nationale en Croatie

• Main Author: Emmanuelle Chaveneau-Le Brun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 2004-12-01
• Series: Espace populations sociétés
• Subjects: ethnic cleansing; political space; nationality; minority; nationalism; Croatia
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/eps/421

Within Yugoslavia, Croatia was a multinational republic, with 78% of Croats, 12% of Serbs and 10% of others minorities. The State took its independence through a war (1991-1995) after what it was not multinational any more. Indeed, within the war and after, the Croatian state led a policy of “ethnic cleansing” whose aim was adjustment of the Croatian political space with the Croatian settlement. So the Serbian minority was expelled out of the country by violence and prevented from coming back by Law. This was following a Serbian attempt of ethnic cleansing led by the Serbian community to adjust the Serbian settlement in Croatia with Serbia : the Serbian settlements began to leave the Croatian state, notwithstanding the geographical reality.