Croatia in the 1980s and early 1990s had a sizeable Serbian minority living in the republic. Politically, many of these Serbians did not side with the Croatian government and erred more toward the Serbian government under Slobodan Miloševic. In early 1991 it was clear that the new Croatian government under Franjo Tudman was working toward Croatian independence, triggering an internal conflict. Many Serbs living within Croatia rebelled, wanting their parts of Croatia and Bosnia andmainly the Serbian Autonomous Region Krajina, to be part of Serbia.
