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Albanian civilian population, and deporting 700,000 civilians to Albania,
Macedonia, and Montenegro. Because the armed forces of the
fry fought in Kosovo without the involvement of Serbia’s federal
partner, Montenegro, the fry’s military defeat was Serbia’s defeat.
The seal was set on it by the Kumanovo Agreement of June 1999,
under which Serbia’s forces had to pull out of Kosovo.
CONCLUSION
The ypa, once a well-respected force because of its actions in
World War II, had enjoyed a highly privileged position in Tito’s
Yugoslav as its “seventh republic.” “The army leadership held itself
responsible for Yugoslavia in a political-state sense.” 307 However,
when the ypa’s leaders came to see the ypa’s fate as inextricably
linked to that of Serbia, which they regarded as the “guardian” of
Yugoslavia, the ypa effectively stripped itself of its role of protector
of all the nations of Yugoslavia.
The ypa’s objective of vanquishing Croatia proved unrealistic as
soon as it met with the resistance of a determined people. The ypa
leadership’s and Milošević’s prediction that the war would last only
a few weeks or months betrayed their inability to understand the
changing situation both in the world and in Yugoslavia. Belgrade’s
fundamentally wrong perception of developments resulted in a series
of misguided moves with no clear sense as to the outcome of the war.
ypa war goals in Croatia ranged from protection of the sfry’s territorial
integrity (which was quite unrealistic after the war in Slovenia),
the protection of “Serbhood” and the prevention of another
genocide of Serbs, to the creation of a new Yugoslavia out of all the
republics willing to stay under the same umbrella. The latter goal actually
implied the establishment of a Greater Serbia with all Serbs in a
single state simply called Yugoslavia. This mismatch of objectives led to
307 Martin Špegelj, Prva faza rata 1990–1992: “Pripreme za agresiju i hrvatski
odbrambeni planovi” in Rat u Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini, ed . Branka Magaš
and Ivo Žanić, Jesenski i Turk (Zagreb) and Dani (Sarajevo) 1999, p .39 .
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