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Old 19.02.2011., 18:20   #443
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Casualties

Croatian
By the end of 1991, the official figures issued in Croatia showed that approximately 3,210 Croats were killed and 17,393 people injured during the conflict. Most of the casualties resulted from the siege of Vukovar[27]. The exact numbers of casualties at Vukovar is still unknown. According to official Croatian figures, published by Croatian Ministry of Defence in 2006, Croatia lost 879 soldiers killed and 770 wounded in Vukovar only.

According to Croatian general Anton Tus, about 1,100 of Vukovar's defenders were killed, 2,600 defenders and civilians were listed as missing, and another 1,000 Croatian soldiers were killed on the approaches to Vinkovci and Osijek. He noted that the intensity of the fighting can be judged by the fact that the losses in Eastern Slavonia between September-November 1991 constituted half of all Croatian war casualties during the whole of 1991.[10]

In his book "Croatian history", published 2004, Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein wrote that Croatian military losses in the Battle of Vukovar were 2,500 military dead (including forces which helped defence of Vukovar outside the town).

The CIA estimates Croatian casualties at around 4,000-5,000 dead across Eastern Slavonia.[5]

Yugoslav

Estimates of JNA losses are complicated by a lack of official figures. Former commander of the Novi Sad Corps, pensioned general Andrija Biorcevic, could not remember how many people he lost, but he said that he believed that it was not more than 1,500 killed. Biorcevic explained that during the siege of Vukovar, "most of the combat activities took place from a distance and from well entrenched positions"[28].

The only exact figures of Serbian losses in the Battle of Vukovar published by their side (published by Miroslav Lazanski, an unofficial spokesman of the JNA and well known military commentator from Belgrade) were 1,103 soldiers and volunteers killed, 2,500 wounded, 110 tanks and APCs destroyed and 2 planes shot down, while another fell because of malfunction.

In 1997 Tus himself estimated enemy losses in the three months of war to be in the order of 10,000 dead, 600 armoured vehicles, and 23 aircraft[28] (modern Serbian sources, however, say only about 6,000 Serbs and Yugoslavs were killed or disappeared in the four years of war, including some civilians). During this period, said Tus, the Croats lost only 1,850 fighters (since then, he gave a higher estimates of Croatian losses).
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