Croatian citizens “in shock“

Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights President Žarko Puhovski told  that the Croatian citizens were in shock.

“People are shocked for now, big reactions are not visible yet. We'll see how things will look like tomorrow, when a protest rally has been announced. It was announced for today that they will meet and pray for a good outcome, which obviously didn't come. I have to say that it seems to me that today and tomorrow are two special days in Croatian history, when it is possible that democratic institutions will be threatened, but I hope that it is not going to happen,“ Puhovski said.
The prime minister described the August 2005 operations as part of "a just and liberating war".

Operation Storm, which climaxed with the reconquest of Knin and the Serbian exodus, was prosecuted at lightning speed and highly successfully with strong American backing. It represented the denouement to the four-year war. A fortnight earlier at Srebrenica in Bosnia the Serbs had committed the worst massacre of the Yugoslav wars, murdering almost 8,000 Muslim males.