ABSTRACT
The Prosecution argues that ethnic violence in Croatia had resulted from the Serb policy of ethnic separation. But the Defence asserted that the creation of the Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK) was a legitimate right of Serbs who wanted to remain living in Yugoslavia and did not want to live in a newly independent Croatia. The Memorandum called for an immediate solution and warned that the failure to find one would be disastrous, not only for Croatia but for Yugoslavia as well. It was understandable that the political revival of NDH symbolism alarmed Croatian Serbs, who had faced a policy of genocide by NDH leaders during the Second World War. The strategy outlined by Kadijevic was confirmed by other witnesses, for both the Prosecution and the Defence. Armed engagement by Croatian Serbs was presented by the Defence as a selforganised resistance to the aggressive policies of a nationalist Croatian government.
