Operation "Flash" 26 years later: We were expelled only because of our Serbian origin

In 36 hours, 15.000 Serbs were expelled from Western Slavonia, which was part of the then Republika Srpska Krajina and under UN protection, while 283 Serbs were killed.
More than 16.000 members of the Croatian armed forces marched on Western Slavonia on May 1, with about 15.000 inhabitants and 4.000 soldiers.
According to the Veritas Documentation and Information Center, the UN protection forces, warned in time by the Croatian generals, withdrew to safe places, leaving their protgs at the mercy of the aggressor.
The people of western Slavonia, remembering Jasenovac from 1941, and Pakracka Poljana from 1991, started an exodus towards Srpska. On the way to the "bridge of salvation" to the Sava River, they were overtaken by plane bombs, helicopter shells, cannon grenades and sniper bullets, it is said in the statement. According to "Veritas", 283 people were killed and disappeared in that operation, including 114 civilians and 11 militiamen. Among the victims, there were 56 women, 8 people under the age of 14 and 75 over the age of 60. Of the total number of victims, the fate of 162 people has been clarified so far. 121 people still remain missing, including 52 civilians and 24 women.
Of the 148 exhumed remains from group graves, 114 have been identified so far. And when exhumed and unidentified (34) are identified, grave sites for 87 remains remain unknown.
In that operation, two villages with a predominantly Serb population suffered the most - Medari with 22 victims, including 11 women and three children, and Paklenica with 20 victims.
Veritas states that about 1.450 members of the Serbian Army of Krajina were captured, most with the assistance of UN protection forces. Before the national courts of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and...