• The region of Baranja
• Western Slavonia
• Banija
• Kordun
• Eastern Lika
• The Knin Area
• Bukovica and Ravni Kotari

Kordun

Until October 1991, the region of Kordun, in the geostrategic sense, constituted a territorial discontinuity between Banija province and the eastern parts of the phantom republic of "Krajina". Parts of Kordun that administratively fall under the district of Vojnic were from the start of the Serbian uprising merged with the occupied territory, while an enormous part remained under Croatian government control, i.e. part of Karlovac district and Slunj district.

Slunj region (63.8 % Croats) found itself wedged between Vojnic district (with a Serb majority) to the north and Korenica, in Lika, (also with a Serb majority) to the South.

Signals that the area would not be spared by Serb aggression were seen in August 1991 when on August 4, three Croatian policemen on patrol were ambushed and killed along the Karlovac-Slunj road near Budacka village, Rijeka.

The first settlement to be attacked was the village of Saborsko (82.7 % Croat), followed in September 1991 by Dreznik Grad (82.7 % Croat) and Vaganac (Vaganac Lower, 48.4 % Croat, Vaganac Upper 99 % Croat).

All aggression was executed according to a well-established sequence, beginning with verbal and psychological pressure, followed by armed provocations and mortar fire, and later to culminate in killings, looting, property-burning and expulsion of survivors.

Several people were killed in the village of Vukmanic while Vaganac was practically levelled to the ground. After the majority of houses had been destroyed using cannon fire and the citizens expelled, Serb forces used tanks and other weapons to finish what had not been devastated in the village of Vagranac, in a bid to obliterate all traces of Croatian existence in the area.

At almost the same time - October 1991 - similar crimes against humanity took place in Saborsko village. The village of Rakovica (87.7 % Croat), an ancient centre of Kordun was next on the Serbian list of obliteration.

The "cleansing" of Kordun was a gradual and systematic process. Surrounding villages in the district of Slunj were first on the list of ethnic cleansing, including the neighbouring ones in Korenica district, followed by villages next to the district centre of Slunj. Finally, in mid-October, the city of Slunj itself (56.7 % Croat) was occupied. An enormous section of the Croatian population was forced to flee their homes and join the vast numbers of displaced Croatians, while the "ethnically cleansed" Kordun was proclaimed part of the so-called "Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina".