ABSTRACT
It is difficult to consider the war in Croatia in isolation, because both in its preparation and during its actual course it remained closely linked to events in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as it had also been with the short war in Slovenia, the three areas functioning like joined vessels. Even now the war has ended, we see that every problem emerging in Bosnia-Herzegovina has its reflection in Croatia and vice versa. So before the armed conflict ever broke out it should have been realized that war in the Balkans could only result in a full-scale tragedy. But unfortunately the international community did not send out sufficiently firm signals: it allowed the war to happen, and there were even those who not only allowed it, but actually wanted it.
