Present-day Faultines in Croatia

On the 25th of June 1991, both Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia declared themselves indepent from the former Republic of Yugoslavia. This was the result of the struggle maily between Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, to establish some kind of Yugoslavia under a confederation after Tito’s death.
The declaration of independece was regarded by the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia as an illigal act and the JNA (Yugoslavian Army) was ordered to take over control in Slovenia. This action was the reason that Croatia decided to call the Croatian Army to arms. Feeling threathened, Croatia prepared to defend itsself. The events that followed are history, for the following 4 ½ years the stage is set for violence in Yugoslavia ( Goldstein, 1999, pp226-228).
But what exactly happened here? Why had it suddely become impossible to live toghether in one nation state for people who had done so for over forty years under Tito’s regime? How could neighbours start killing eachother? Different writers have adressed the problem of the solution of the violence in Yugoslavia. In short, Huntington suggests in his article The clash of Civilizations that the solution is found in greater cooperation and unit of the West, since conflicts like t

For Croatia, cultural differences became clear after the death of communist president Tito and the period of desintegration that followed with the collopase of communism. The strong nation state in which religion had been suppressed had disapeared and there was space again to pratice religion. The main difference between Croatians and Serbs would be their religion. In the beginning of the 1990s Croatia consisted of 78 % percent Croatians, mainly Roman-Catholics, while the Serbian minority made up 12 % of the population, with mainly Orhodox-Christians (Encarta Encyclopedia).