After that point, the numbers of Soviet partisans and Yugoslav partisans begun growing rapidly.

Special Envoys were sent to warn then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of the consequences of his actions.

The JNA began to intervene in favour of the rebellion, and conflict broke out in the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia in May 1991.

He oversaw a popular struggle for independence, advocating a peaceful resistance to Yugoslav rule and lobbying for U.S. and European support, especially during the Kosovo War.

It remains to be confirmed if this action represents an effect of the Yugoslav conflict on these treaties or is better categorized as an effect of State succession on treaties.

Zoran Stevovski from Ohrid, Macedonia, is among the oldest volunteers and recalled for Radio Sarajevo his experience taking part in the youth work actions organized in the former Yugoslavia

Phase I, August to September 1991 The Battle of Vukovar took place in two phases over about 90 days from August to September 1991, before the town was fully surrounded, and from early October to mid November, when the town was encircled then taken by the JNA.

In the last Yugoslav census in 1991, the Vukovar municipality, which included the town and surrounding villages, was recorded as having 84,189 inhabitants, of whom 43.8 percent were Croats, 37.5 percent were Serbs and the remainder were members of other ethnic groups.