Serbs of Dubrovnik
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The Serbs of Dubrovnik made up 3.25% of the town's population according to the 2001 Croatian population census.1 Their number before the Croatian War of Independence was higher - in the 1991 census, 4,765 (6.7%) people in Dubrovnik municipality declared as Serbs.2 Historically, a number of notable Dubrovnik Catholics came to espouse a Serb national ideology and political goals.3

Still, the Serbs from Dubrovnik from 2nd half of 20th century were the ones that came from neighbouring Eastern Herzegovina, as well as one that were military personnel of JNA and JRM.
For a short period of time, at the 2nd half of 19th century there was a Serbia-sponsored political movement of "Serb Catholics", that ceased to exist after the financial support from drained, and locals that stood by that policy came to their senses and abandoned the romantical views on Serbs and Serbia. By 1918 and formation of Yugoslavia, that movement ended.

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Croatian War

During the Croatian war of independence, from October 1991 to May 1992, the Greater Serb-led Yugoslav People's Army assisted by Serb & Montenegrin paramilitariescitation needed put the city of Dubrovnik under siege and bombarded it with the objective of including it in a Serbian state. As a beginning of Serbo-Montenegrin aggression, in ideological terms, could be considered the inaugural gathering of Serb Democratic Party in Dubrovnik on March 10, 1991. 4

The first victim of the Serb bombing of Dubrovnik was a local Serb, poet Milan Milišić.citation needed ICTY indictments have been issued for generals and officers of the Yugoslav People's Army who were involved in the bombing 5.

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References

  1. ^ Republika Hrvatska - Državni zavod za statistiku: Popis 2001
  2. ^ ICTY
  3. ^ Ivo Banac: The Confessional "Rule" and the Dubrovnik Exception: The Origins of the "Serb-Catholic" Circle in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia
  4. ^ (Croatian) Časopis za suvremenu povijest br. 1/2003. Jakša Raguž: Osnivački skup SDS-a za Dubrovnik - otvorena najava agresije na dubrovačko područje
    (Inaugural gathering of the Serb Democratic Party in Dubrovnik – an open announcement of aggresion on Dubrovnik region)
  5. ^ BBC News | EUROPE | Dubrovnik siege suspects named

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