Independence of Slovenia
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 Yugoslav map of operations during the Ten-Day War |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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 Ante Marković Veljko Kadijević Konrad Kolšek Andrija Rašeta Aleksandar Vasiljević Milan Aksentijević
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 Milan Kučan Lojze Peterle Janez Slapar Janez Janša Igor Bavčar
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22,300 personnel |
35,200 Slovenian Territorial Defence 10,000 police
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44 killed 146 wounded 4,693 prisoners |
19 killed 182 wounded |
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Decisive Slovenian victory
The Ten-Day War (Slovene: desetdnevna vojna) or the Slovenian Independence War (slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna), was a brief war of independence that followed the Slovenian declaration of independence on 25 June 1991. It was fought between the Slovenian Territorial Defence (Slovene: Teritorialna obramba Republike Slovenije) and the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA). It lasted from 27 June 1991 until 7 July 1991, when the Brioni Accords were signed. It marked the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars.
Following the death of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito in 1980, underlying political, ethnic, religious, and economic tensions within Yugoslavia surfaced. In 1989 Slobodan Milošević, Chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia since 1986, became president of Serbia, the largest and most populous of the six Yugoslav republics. As Milošević moved to consolidate power by centralizing the state, the governments of the other republics sought to loosen the central grip on power by devolving as much constitutional power as possible to each of the republics and autonomous provinces. A series of disagreements among delegates persisted until four of the six republics each made the decision to secede from Yugoslavia. Supported by Germany and the Vatican, Slovenia was among those republics aiming for independence.
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