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SAO Krajina
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'''SAO Krajina''' stands for Serbian Autonomous Region of Frontier. Main section of the
Republic of Serbian Krajina Republic of Serb Frontier, also known as
Krajina proper.
In October 1990 the
SAO Kninska Krajina came to encompase of Community (Association) of Municipalities of Northern
Dalmatia and
Lika, these were
Associaitons of Municipalities (a government level in
SFRY). After encompassing these arease it became the Association of Autonomous Serb Municipalities, which soon started making their own government institutions including the
Serbian National Council (parliament of the region).
Originally they thought Tuđman wanted to have Croatia as a
nation state with in the
SFRY after democratic and decentralizing reforms. When this turned out to be unlikely they wanted it to be independent of Croatia but within the mini-
Yugoslavia proposed under the
Belgrade Initiative, basically a
Greater Serbia proposal.
On February 28, 1991 the SAO Krajina was officially declared. It announced that it planned to separate from Croatia if it moved for independence from Yugoslavia.
The Serb National Council on March 16, 1991 declared thee Frontier to be independent of Croatia but within the SFRY if it voted for independence. Some leaders in the Frontier declared it to be that Krajina is part of Serbia.
May 12, 1991 a referendum was held about leaving Croatia. It was restricted only to Serbs, and some are believed to have voted several times. The results were that Krajina is independent of Croatia but within SFRY and that it should be annexed by Serbia.
Soon after this declaration conflict began between the Frontier
Serbs and Croat authorities. In the time after this, particularly after
Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, violence escalated as the Serbs expanded the territory they held with the help of the People's Army of Yugoslavia (
JNA), eventually expanded the territory to include SAO of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem and a third of Croatia.
On December 19, 1991 the two SAO's through the initiative of
Milan Babić (president of SAO Krajina) and
Goran Hadzic (president of SAO of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem) declared the two to represent a single Serbian state in Croatia with the name
Republic of Serbian Krajina Republic of Serb Frontier. In February 1992 the republic declared itself independent.
Category:Republic of Serbian Krajina
