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Article: Croatia rising from ashes of war and ethnic cleansing.
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- Canadian Speeches
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- May 1, 1996
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Nine months after the 1991 invasion of Croatia by Serbia, the Croatian toll included 14,000 people killed, 37,000 wounded, nearly half a million homeless people displaced by ethnic cleansing, and damages of $US27 billion, including the complete destruction of the city of Vukovar. The 1995 liberation of most of Serbian-occupied Croatia and the Dayton Accords that ended four years of Balkan war, culminated nearly eight decades of Croatian-Serbian tensions and conflicts. Today, Croatia is a democracy emerging from the ashes, rebuilding its economy, seeking trade and mutual security arrangements with its neighbors, and aiming for full membership in the European Union. Speech ...