Western Slavonia Under Serbian Occupation (from Sarajevo Treaty to Operation "Flash")

Srpska pobuna na početku devedesetih zahvatila je i zapadnu Slavoniju. Pobunjeni Srbi u zapadnoj Slavoniji radili su tijekom druge polovine 1990. i u 1991. na ustroju administrativno-teritorijalne cjeline koju bi činio prostor nastanjen srpskim stanovništvom između rijeka Save i Drave. Osnivanjem paradržave Republike Srpske Krajine (RSK) okupirano područje zapadne Slavonije ulazi u njezin sastav, čineći jednu od triju teritorijalnih jedinica tzv. RSK pod nazivom Srpska oblast Zapadna Slavonija. Središnji dio rada obrađuje razdoblje od početka 1992. godine odnosno od stupanja na snagu Sarajevskoga primirja (3. siječnja 1992.). U okviru prikaza razvoja srpske pobune u zapadnoj Slavoniji, kao dijela srpske agresije na Republiku Hrvatsku, situacija na bojištu prikazana je u osnovnim crtama jer je ovo istraživanje posvećeno prikazu političkih i društvenih prilika na promatranom području. Ustroj i djelovanje institucija, počevši od funkcioniranja državnih tijela uprave, policije i pravosudnog sustava, sustava javnih institucija i socijalnih službi, državnih privrednih poduzeća te vezano uz to i privatnog poduzetništva, kao i stupanj realizacije najnužnijih preduvjeta za funkcioniranje paradržave pobunjenih Srba na navedenom području, osnovne su istraživačke teme doktorskoga rada. Pri tome su analizirani resursi (financijski, gospodarski, kadrovski) s kojima su tzv. RSK i Srpska oblast Zapadna Slavonija raspolagale, te unutarnji i vanjski čimbenici koji su utjecali na proces ustroja srpske vlasti na okupiranom području, uključujući i promjene u političko-vojnim prilikama koje su utjecale na stanje u tzv. RSK.doktorskog rada (en.): The Serb rebellion in the beginning of the nineties appeared and spread also in the Western Slavonia. The rebelled Serbs in Western Slavonia worked during the first half of the 1990, and in the beginning of the 1991 on forming administrative - territorial zones which would include the area between the rivers Sava and Drava, inhabited by the Serb population. By establishment and founding of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (“RSK”) the rest of the occupied territory held by rebelled Serbs in Western Slavonia became a part of RSK, being one of three territorial units of “RSK”, under the official tittle of Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Western Slavonia. Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Western Slavonia was in many ways in specific position according to the other parts of “RSK”, mostly because of its geographical segregation, isolation and considering the littleness of the territory it included. Due to the ineffective functioning of the so called state institutions in Knin that part of RSK was left on its own and to its very restricted, limited possibilities in revitalising economy and the state institutions. All of that resulted in the fact that the leadership of “SAO Zapadna Slavonija” was more cooperative and willing to work with the representatives of the UNPROFOR and even but in limited extent with the Croatian officials.rnThe main part of the work deals with the period after the cessation of armed conflicts which came to light in the beginning of 1992. The primary and capital goal of these doctoral dissertation was to describe and to elaborate the founding and acting of rebelled Serbs institutions, firstly from functioning of administration bodies, police, judicial system, secondly the research attention was given to system of public and social institutions, state companies and in accordance to that the author deals also with the operating of the private economical sector and the rate of realisation of the elementary preconditions needed for the functioning of the para-state of the rebelled Serbs in the defined domain of investigation. In doing so the author has analysed the disposal and use of financial, economic and personal resources of the RSK and the Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Western Slavonia. Furthermore the external and internal factors which influenced on the establishment of Serbian administration on the occupied Croatian ground additionally to earlier mentioned political-military circumstances which had effect on RSK were also a subject of study in the thesis